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The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
The U Bein Bridge is the longest teakwood bridge in the world and was constructed around 1850 from the abandoned teak columns of the old Ava (Inwa) Palace.
Watercolour with pen and ink of the 'Lord White Elephant', a rare and auspicious white elephant kept by the King at Amarapura. From: 'A Series of Views in Burmah taken during Major Phayre’s Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855'.
Amarapura is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay. Amarapura is bounded by the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) river in the west, Chanmyathazi township in the north, and the city of Innwa (Ava) in the south.<br/><br/> Amarapura, Pali for City of Immortality, was the capital of Burma (Myanmar) for three separate periods during the Konbaung dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries before finally being supplanted by Mandalay in 1857. Though historically referred to as Taungmyo (Southern City) in relation to Mandalay, Amarapura today is part of Mandalay, as a result of the urban sprawl.
Pali for 'The City of Immortality', Amarapura was the capital of Burma for three periods during the Konbaung dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries before finally being supplanted by Mandalay, just 11km north, in 1857.<br/><br/> King Bodawpaya (1781–1819) of the Konbaung Dynasty founded Amarapura as his new capital in 1783, soon after he ascended the throne. In 1795, he received the first British embassy to Burma from the British East India Company led by Michael Symes.<br/><br/> From 1841-1857, King Mindon (r.1853–78) decided to make Amarapura the capital again before relocating to his planned city of Mandalay in 1860.<br/><br/> Today little remains of the old city as the palace buildings were dismantled and moved by elephant to the new location, and the city walls were pulled down for use as building materials for roads and railways. Part of the moat is still recognisable near Bagaya Monastery. The city is known today for its traditional silk and cotton weaving, and bronze casting. It is a popular tourist day-trip destination from Mandalay.
Taungthaman, near the Irrawaddy River within the walls of the 18th century capital, Amarapura, was occupied from the late Neolithic through the early iron age, around the middle of the first millennium BCE.<br/><br/> Small trades, barters as well as Animism had already begun in this age.
Taungthaman, near the Irrawaddy River within the walls of the 18th century capital, Amarapura, was occupied from the late Neolithic through the early iron age, around the middle of the first millennium BCE.<br/><br/> Small trades, barters as well as Animism had already begun in this age.
In Burma white elephants have been revered symbols of power and good fortune for centuries.<br/><br/> Amarapura was founded by King Bodawpaya of the Konbaung Dynasty as his new capital in May 1783. The new capital became a center of Buddhist reforms and learning. In 1800, Buddhist clergy from Sri Lanka obtained higher ordination in this city and founded the Amarapura Nikaya (Amarapura sect).<br/><br/> Bodawpaya's grandson, King Bagyidaw moved the Court back to Ava in November 1821. Bagyidaw's successor King Tharrawaddy again moved the royal capital back to Amarapura in February 1842.
In 1855 the British sent a diplomatic mission to the court of King Mindon Min (r.1853-1878). Grant (1813-1880) was sent as the official artist of the mission. Together with a privately-printed book of notes, his drawings give a vivid account of the journey, and a number were used for illustrations to Henry Yule’s ‘A Narrative of the mission sent by the Governor General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855’ published in 1858.<br/><br/> Grant wrote that the audience chamber represented in this painting was 'called ‘Thee-ha-thuna-yàzà-pulleng’, and used only on occasions of importance...the blaze and brilliancy of the colonnaded hall, with its choir and transepts, its elaborately ornate and singular throne, glittering in mosaic and gold...'<br/><br/> Today, little remains of the palace buildings at Amarapura.