A full day tour of Mandalay! We started with the Royal Palace. The palace was built-in the 1857. The palace was used by the last Royal family until 1885 when the British captured it along with the royal family and used it as a fort.
During the WWII, the Palace/Fort was heavily bombed destroying everything but the watch tower and the royal mint. Part of the palace had been relocated prior to the bombing. What we were looking at had been rebuilt in the 1990s.
Although it was not the original palace and grounds it was still interesting to see as well as to ponder what royal life must have been like.
Afterwards we made a stop to a building that had been part of the original palace grounds but had been relocated prior to the war.
Shwenandaw Monastery
Shwenandaw Monastery
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