We have breakfast again on the rooftop, we rent the motorcycles again in the hotel but they don't give us the same ones as yesterday, as soon as one of them goes out it lowers a line of battery, we return to the hotel and we ask them for another one. The problem with the electric motorcycles is that as they consume little and yesterday we returned them without lowering any line, we believe that they do not recharge.
Today we visited New Bagan and the southern plains. First stop Iza Gawna Pagoda and Winido Temple more modest but interesting.
Iza Gawna Pagoda
We also visit Payathonzu, Tayok Pye Pagoda, Laymyethna Paya Group. Some women give us a taste of jaggery they are selling, very rich.
Payathonzu Temple
Narathihapatae Tayok Pye Pagoda
We stop to have a beer and it happens that we are in Minnanthu village, a woman offers to show us. They have antique looms. We take a walk and visit several houses, they still use the animals to work the land and they have the plows and the wooden carts.
Ka in Minnanthu village
They use some animals called Ka, they look like cows but they are not. A woman with a basket on her head comes up, which is nice. We visit two more houses, in one of them we see again the woman with the basket on her head smoking a huge cigar.
Woman smoking
In another house a woman who says she is single shows us her rooms, poor woman with two teeth left. All the buildings and the fences are made of wood and straw, there is nothing paved.
We leave the village and go up to Lookout platform, it's a lookout point on a hill from where you can see the sunset or sunrise like yesterday. We visit the lake from which the village is supplied with water. We give a tip to the woman who has been very kind.
Views from Lookout platform
We continue visiting Thitsarwadi temple and Dhammayazika Pagoda.
Thitsarwadi Temple
Dhammayazika Pagoda
We eat in a very nice restaurant near Dhamayazika Pagoda in New Bagan, the food is spectacular, that there are dishes of up to 40,000 MMK!
We continue to Lawkanandar Monastery, a group of architecture students study the main building. We take the motorbike around New Bagan, at the end we go to the river to see Lawkananda Paya with its golden zedi.
Lawkananda Paya
We take the bikes again and stop at Shwesandaw Paya. Beautiful.
Shwesandaw Paya
A boy comes up to us and tells us to visit Shinbinthalyaung Temple, amazing, a huge lying Buddha occupies practically the whole temple, spectacular.
Shinbinthalyaung Temple
We return to Nyaung U and visit the Shwezigon Pagoda, it has a huge zedi and is the main religious monument of the city. A lot of souvenir stands at the entrance make it almost impossible to enter.
Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung U
We stop at a pharmacy and buy paracetamol, I've been carrying a heavy cold all these days. They have everything, probiotics too.
We had a beer and took a walk to the Shwe Moe restaurant, had pancake dinner with honey and lemon, very good.
We rent two electric bikes: 8,000 MMK per day.
Food: restaurant near New Bagan 17.400 MMK 3 pax, spectacular, they invited us to dessert and gave us an aperitif snack.
Accommodation: Sunrise hostel double room with bathroom and breakfast included 34.000 MMK (22$).
Dinner: Shwe Moe at Nyaung U 13.400 MMK 3 pax.
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