{"id":19656,"date":"2017-11-22T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=19656"},"modified":"2017-11-22T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:42:55","slug":"november-22-2017-beyond-rangoon-mandalay-sights-and-sounds-words-still-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=19656","title":{"rendered":"November 22, 2017 – Beyond Rangoon: Mandalay Sights and Sounds… Words Still To Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long day and despite some hiccups with logistics (lunch took over 2 hours and cut into the “meat” of the sightseeing day, necessitating rushed, hurried, blurry photo opps at places that could have benefited from a bit more quiet contemplation), it’s been an interesting one.<\/p>\n

I’m going to try and write up some notes from the day tomorrow during a slow boat to Bagan… that’s not a metaphor.\u00a0 It’s something like 9+ hours to get there.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s a “teaser” of Mandalay, the 2nd largest city in Myanmar, known for its crafts and artisans, as well as being home to over 70% of the Burma monks.<\/p>\n

The traditional production of gold leafs…<\/p>\n

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A procession of monks headed into lunch…<\/p>\n

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The longest wooden bridge in the world…<\/p>\n

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A weaving factory wherein young girls and women take about a month to make a traditional silk longyi skirt<\/p>\n

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The Mahamuni Buddha and its pagoda…<\/p>\n

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“The World’s Largest Book” at Kuthodaw Pagoda<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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It’s been a long day and despite some hiccups with logistics (lunch took over 2 hours and cut into the “meat” of the sightseeing day, necessitating rushed, hurried, blurry photo opps at places that could have benefited from a bit more quiet contemplation), it’s been an interesting one. I’m going to try and write up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}