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The Karaweik Palace Floating Restaurant 

            

          Dinner and Cultural Performance
Built in the shape of the pyi-gyi-mun royal barge the restaurant looks spectacular reflected in Royal Lake.  The double bow represents the mythological Indian Karaweik bird from which the restaurant takes it's name.  The dinner and performance was a disappointment, the barge had become very shabby and the food was mediocre.   Not a great way to spend our last night in Myanmar in 2002
The bright spires attracted us to what turned out to be the Roman Catholic Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception

  The school next door was founded by the Christian Brothers, the then St. Paul's High School is where Spike Milligan was educated
The Taukkyan War Cemetery
We didn't have much free time during our three month stint volunteering with Growing Together but soon after Tony's arrival in 2007 we took a cab out to Taukkyan to pay our respects to the 27,000 allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth who died in battle here during WW2.  They are grouped together according to the battles in which they perished
  Opened in 1951 and immaculately maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Seven holders of the Victoria Cross are interred here

                     


                              
                                                    Chauk Htat Gyi Buddha
Is 65 meters long and 16 meters high.  The 108 segments on the feet represent the auspicious characteristics of the Buddha

Down By the Riverside

                    
 
                   
We didn't have far to go, just beside our bus stop is a lane leading to the river.  We have video taken down here and what surprised us when we viewed it was the overwhelming noise level of the market
Shwedagon
                
 
                
      The birds are real, not sure if the rice is intended for them
Yet another beautiful child
Back in 'the hood' the Tamil community was celebrating Pongal combining Tamil New Year and harvest festival.   By Sunday things were hopping with the arrival of a roundabout and small Ferris wheel, both of which had to be turned manually during the 5 hour scheduled power outage.  It didn't stop the amplified concert however as they must have deemed it worth using the generator to power the massive speakers
The story of our time in Yangon as Tee cher Sue and school handyman Tony can be found on the map page link 'Growing Together'
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