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My Trip To Mandalay Essay

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Newsflash: Mandalay doesn't suck – 7 things to do

Planning my trip to Myanmar, I told a couple of people about my itinerary:
Starting from Yangon, I wanted to work my way up north over Inle Lake and Bagan to Mandalay. The common response to that was: “Cool but don't spend any time in Mandalay. I heard it's a horrible place”.
So I was obviously on a mission to find the beauty of Mandalay, and guess what: I did.

The only real plans I made before were visiting the U Bein Bridge and Mandalay Hill.
Since there were three of us, it was cheaper to hire a driver for the entire day than to each rent a bike. It started pouring later on, so we were quite happy with our decision.

Our very friendly driver Mue suggested a couple of activities in between …show more content…

6. Mandalay Hill
It was still raining when we got up there but the view was still great.
This is one Monastery where you don't have to climb up anywhere as usual but Mue could actually drive us all the way, where an escalator was waiting.
Call me lazy – I was so happy with my legs still being sore from the 700 steps to Mount Popa I had done the day before.

7. Food
I loved the food all over Myanmar but the Street Food in Mandalay was my favourite.
Being closer to India and China than the other places I visited, the Street Food was just perfect. Most times I had no idea what I ate there but I loved it!

We managed to squeeze all this in one day, it could of course easily be spread over two. The streets felt very stressful to me, so this is not the city for long walks but it's easy to get around and I loved the places we looked at.
I was super thankful we had Mue showing us around and telling us about his life, his culture and the places we looked at (“why is this pagoda white?” “look how big it is! Do you want to donate all this paint to make it golden?”) and saving us from the rain several

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