Women assembling gold leaf into books, which will be sold to worshipers who will affix them to a Buddha as shown below.
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A trip to a silk factory gave us an opportunity to buy gifts directly from the maker.
A visit to the former king’s intricately carved wooden palace – the only one to survive fires and the sacking of Mandalay hundreds of years ago. Now it’s both a tourist attraction and a place of reverence for the many monks who visit.
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The next stop was a visit to the pagoda of 500,000 Buddhas – There are hundreds of thousands of two inch high Buddhas along with hundreds of larger statues.
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Seeking relief from the thousands of Buddhas, I look out from the shrine.
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