Before
we leave Loikaw we have to visit their spectacular pagoda Thiri Mingalar Taung
Taw. The paya is not more spectacular
than usual, but it is built on the top of a precipitous jagged outcrop of rock
high above the town. It is 387 feet from
the bottom to the summit from which we can see nine smaller paya grouped on the next highest points.
The view over the town is panoramic with the Shan Mountains away in the
distance.
There
are many huge trees in the town: usually development has removed them. We were
delighted that there is a lift to the top of the paya. It is the first we have
seen in Myanmar. When it was time to return to the ground we read a notice telling
us to ring a mobile phone number and the lift man would come up to collect us! That
was a first for both of us!
Tomorrow
we drive on the road back to Mandalay.
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