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vodolaz Says: This is the biggest reclyning Buddha in the World , by name Win Sein Taw Ya .This Buddha is still under construction . But you can go inside this sculpture and see different sculptural scenes about what is waitin` for in Hell , sinner ! Also you can see a panoramic view from...
vodolaz Says: You can see there some histories of Buddha by sculptures in local small museum , and then take a walk up - and downstair with sculptural monks and count them...
1. Where the Old Moulmein Pagoda is...
vodolaz Says: Rudyard Kipling started his ` Mandalay ` poem with the words ` By the old Moulmein Pagoda , lookin` lazy at the sea...`This is Kyaikthanlan Pagoda in Mawlamyine city ...But it is not main thing.The point is that there is the Ward in Mawlamyine city , called...
vodolaz Says: Great view on Thanlwin River and on big and long new bridge.Very cosy rooms...
Breeze: Mawlamyine guest house
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Ngwe Moe hotel`s restaurant: View on Thanlwin river
vodolaz Says: Grilled duckMyanmar beerWatermelon juice
Seeing sunset on Thanlwin River: Lonely is the Word...
vodolaz Says: The World is full of Kings and Queens.Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams...OK , there is an island on Thanlwin river near Mawlamyine town and there is monastery on this island too . You`d better hire some boat to reach this island and try to enjoy sunset on the river...
Name it as you like: Night karaoke club
vodolaz Says: Just singin` girls and boys and nothing more to say...May be drinkin` beer... Only not naked
vodolaz Says: I reached Mawlamyine by car Yangon - Bago - Kyaikhtyo - Mawlamyine itinerary , overnight in Bago and Kyaikhtyo. At all , if you don`t want to visit Golden Rock , you can drive from Bago straight to Mawlamyine...
Mawlamyine`s market: Buyin` longyi
vodolaz Says: When I said to our driver , that I wanna buy longyi in Mawlamyine , but better in good supermarket , he told me that in Mawlamyine I can do it only in city market... Longyi $2-3
vodolaz Says: And now please take a look on equipment of this distillery and it`s condition...What do you think ?It`s still working !
vodolaz Says: This man is retired professor of history U Ank Gyaw from Mawlamyine University (a well popular person who is a Mawlamyine specialist, nobody knows about Mawlamyine like that professor). He is an academic researcher about an perfect history of Mawlamyine as well.We had an...
vodolaz Says: I was lucky and could see how local people are working on the burmese plant .Of course , this is not hi-tec , but they are easy in their mind and out of nervous...
vodolaz Says: Mawlamyine ( Moulmein ) city , the capital of Mon state , is also former British colonial capital. There is distillery plant in Mawlamyine , established in 1876 by one French business man JE Limouzin as ` Phoenix distillery ` , who then sold it in 1884 to chinese man by name...
Good bye , Mawlamyine , the city lovin` Russians !
vodolaz Says: We went to enjoy the sunset on Thanlwin river to some old wooden moorage close to the new bridge. We made photos of this bridge , when suddenly two men in military regimentals appeared somewhere under the moorage and they said unfriendly something to our guide , young...
2. Mawlamyine , the charmin` city
vodolaz Says: In this chapter please just enjoy the serene beauty of this wonderful city...Without any my comments...
1. Mawlamyine , the charmin` city
vodolaz Says: Mawlamyine ( Moulmein ) city is the capital of Mon state and the old capital of British colonial Burma . George Orwell served in the Army here as a soldier...And Rudyard Kipling started his poem with ` By the old Moulmein Pagoda , lookin` lazy at the sea...` words.This is...
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I was lucky and could see how local people are working on the burmese plant .Of course , this is not hi-tec , but they are easy in their mind and out of...
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