Mandalay

We only had a short stay planned for Mandalay this time as we had stopped over previously, but unfortunately we had been ill. We didn't want to miss anythin though, so we picked out the Teak Wood Bridge and the Golden Buddah to get up early to see before leaving to go on to Thailand that day. Although we had to wake up at 4:30am, the sunrise over the river with monks walking across to get their breakfast and the huge golden Buddah that is now deformed due to the sheer amount of gold leaf layered on by worshipping buddists absolutely made it worth our while!