Mandalay is a city in the center of Myanmar (Burma) on a bend of the Irawadi River (Engl. Irrawaddy), with a population of just under 1 million the second-largest in the coutry. Due to its strategic location in the transit traffic corridor between South China and the Indian Ocean the importance of the city as main economic center of Burma has been further strengthened. In addition to the cultivation of rice in the fertile plain around Mandalay, different crafts companies (including production of leaf gold, marionette dolls, paper shields, silk weaving) and tourism dominate the economic life of the city.
Cruise offers to the port Mandalay / Myanmar
The wide stream is the lifeblood of Myanmar, is trade route, laundry and buffalo bathing place. On the banks are bamboo huts, windy and always threatened by the floods. House boats and flat boats glide past women with colorful turbans sitting on bamboo rafts and dipping their laundry into the yellow-brown water. The river limits the center of the multinational cities to the west, to the north stands Mandalay Hill, a 236-meter-high hill that gave the city its name. Worth a visit is the Royal Palace. There are also numerous Buddhist monasteries, pagodas, and Buddhist temples. Many goldsmiths, often from Chinese, can be purchased for excellent gold leaf work.
* Buddhist monasteries
* Handicrafts
* Royal Palace (reconstruction)
* Mahamuni Buddha
* Mandalay Mountain
In which country / island is Mandalay located?
