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Mandalay

Posted by pktan on Apr 22nd, 2009
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Mandalay, the second largest city after Yangon, is the last royal capital until British annexation in 1885 – back then it was the cultural and commercial as well as the Buddhist education center of the country . Today Mandalay is home to more than 100 Buddhist monasteries and some 70,000 monks, it retains many cultural [...]