johansvennung(臺灣) -

A day in mandalay

AFter some days in Myanmar...im about to put the locals on the same greedy list as vietnamese and nepalese...so stressful to always be charged more...

I found a euromean resturant not far from my hotel...

And I really wanted to visit the palace inthe city center...however...only the east entrence was made for foreingers...and the city center from the west..so many people took cab...to go there...it was aobut 5-6km...

Pretty big area...surrounded by water...

And these towersaround it...

Some guards telling me that foreingers have to walk around...

One big difference in south east asia compare to home, is that here its accepted that foreigners get discrimintated...and we have to accept it...at home its alot of complains among immigrants that they get discrimintated and society puts efforts in reducing the discrimination...

Many people wanted to give me a lift, if a paid...its easy money for these...however it was very expensive...

I made a walk instead...

Omg...mandalay palace...a nice spot in mandalay city...with nice veiw...

The north entrance, is only made for the military...(as well as the south one)...

It was a normal working day so it was not that many people entering...

Some guy offering lift again...

Well at the mainentrance...they had propaganda on the wall...

Some big gate, when entering...

And the we had to walk to quite a while to reach the palace...another reason for motor bikes to charge money...

And we got instructions only to walk on the main road...

Here is the palace...

Not that special...but many people visiting...

Like an acient city in kathmandu...

And many religious artefacts..

The floor was made of wood...pretty nice...

And many school kids were there...

They also had a museum...

And some green areas...

The is the whole palace...I spent some 5-10 minutes walking around...

Then headed back...

Pretty impressive wall...

I guess they could stand an attack, atleast some 500 years ago when they build it...

Next stop was a famous bridge...we were told by our first taxi driver that he couldgive us a "good price" (evenif i later on found out that it wasa scam...