🛕Minglaba Mandalay!

Minglaba means "good day" in Burmese, and our first day in Mandalay was a very good one! We heard from everyone that tourists in this country are not allowed to ride scooters and that no one would rent us one - nothing could be further from the truth - after only an hour of searching we were already on our own means of transport🛵!We started exploring the city from its surroundings - we went on a trip to Tuang Tha Man Lake with a beautiful wooden bridge (U Bein Bridge) which was built in 1850 and is believed to be the oldest and longest teakwood bridge in the world! We met several members of the nun order (girl monk) - Thilashin - who dress in pink with an orange shawl🥰. Then we went to Inn Wa - this ancient city, is home to stunning centuries-old royal palaces and Buddhist monasteries (like the incredible Bagaya Monastery built in 1782 entirely of black teak wood - the building is supported on 267 teak posts (the highest posts are 19 metres high)). On our way home we stopped at a restaurant for dinner and as soon as we entered again we were surrounded by several waiters, when we were sitting down on the table a lot of food started to appear that we hadn't ordered (we didn't have time) - but everything was delicious, Burmese cuisine is something between Thai and Indian but actually not similar to either. After leaving the restaurant we were shocked because the scooter parked on the other side of the street disappeared! But it quickly turned out that the restaurant staff had moved it to the restaurant so that we could be closer :) considering that we were the only (literally the only) tourists here, we felt a bit watched, we didn't even know how they knew where we had parked the scooter🤨Läs mer