Mandalay

We arrived awfully early on the overnight bus, which meant we got to see all the locals up for work at sunrise. The low rise, mostly concrete town isn’t that attractive but has some interesting tourist sites, including Mandalay Palace with a nightly music fountain in the moat, the colourful Zaygo market (everything you could ever want to buy) and Mandalay Hill. We took the covered but humid and sweaty staircase to the hilltop in time for sunset. Here we found all the tourists from the town, they'd all (sensibly but boringly) got taxis to the near top and the elevator the rest of the way! We met our first teenage English students, they really wanted to practice their English with native speakers.Okumaya devam et