{"id":13975,"date":"2013-03-02T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2013-03-02T01:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T01:13:17","slug":"amazing-myanmar-photo-tour-mandalay-pyin-u-lwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/amazing-myanmar-photo-tour-mandalay-pyin-u-lwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Myanmar Photo Tour: Mandalay & Pyin U Lwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mandalay is the modern center of Buddhism and Myanmar arts, but was once the old royal city. Mandalay, 670 km north of Yangon, is now the home of traditional artisans \u2013 including wood and stone carvers, silversmiths, weavers and those producing gold leaf. The former capitol, prior to British rule, and second largest city in the country, Mandalay takes its name from the nearby 240-meter Mandalay Hill, and is rich in monasteries and pagodas. These images are from our last day in Mandalay, which included a day-trip to Pyin U Lwin, a small town, once a British hill station, where many of Myanmar’s flowers are grown.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>leather pouch, containing old leaf, which is beaten with a hammer for 6 hours<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Checking the gold leaf during the beating process<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Marble carving<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"<\/a>Flower market, en route to Pyin U Lwin<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Tom (aka “the bull”) scouts for interesting photo subjects<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>cigarette lighter at road-side tea shop<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Guitar player at moto-repair shop, Pyin U Lwin<\/p>\n

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Mandalay is the modern center of Buddhism and Myanmar arts, but was once the old royal city. Mandalay, 670 km north of Yangon, is now the home of traditional artisans \u2013 including wood and stone carvers, silversmiths, weavers and those producing gold leaf. The former capitol, prior to British rule, and second largest city in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14040,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions\/14040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}