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3 unusual facts about Mandalay Palace


Mandalay Hill

Aerial bombardment was resorted to when shelling from the hill failed to breach the city wall and destroy the enemy, and Mandalay Palace, a national heritage of great importance, burnt down during the siege.

Mandalay Palace

The former royal palace of Amarapura was dismantled and moved by elephants to the new location at the foot of Mandalay Hill.

Shwenandaw Monastery

Shwenandaw Monastery is the single remaining major original structure of the original Royal Palace today.


Myat Paya Lat

Born at the Royal Palace to Thibaw and Supayalat, Mandalay, the princess married at the Collector’s Bungalow, Ratnagiri, Bombay, India, 20 February 1917, Khin Maung Lat Burma Raja Sahib, Private Secretary to Ex-King Thibaw, sometime Officer in the Indian Police, a nephew of King Thibaw and son of the "Duke and Duchess" of Ngape and Mindat.

Saya Saung

The majority of the works which surfaced in Burma and the UK were of Upper Burma scenes—often of the old Mandalay Palace and moat, Mandalay Hill, boats on the Irrawaddy River, or village scenes.


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