Burma bus tour, ep. 2: Golden Rock, Shwedagon Pagoda, and more พระธาตุอินทร์แขวน, เจดีย์ชเวดากอง
We continue our bus tour in Burma. First the trip goes to the famous and awesome Golden Rock / Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, situated on top of a hill about 210 km north-east of Rangoon, where we ascend the last stretch up to the pagoda at about 1100m a.s.l. by foot. We also visit the amazing Shwedagon Pagoda, enjoy dinner while watching the Karaweik Palace Royal Culture Show, and see the Royal White Elephants in Hsin Hpyu Daw Park. Interesting street life, and much more...
This video is captured with a Panasonic NV-GS500 video camera, and edited in Pinnacle Studio.
The music from
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The Awakening - Patrick Patrikios
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Lil Cookie - William Rosati
Pink and White Elephants in Yangon Myanmar July 2013
White elephant park Yangon Myanmar 25/06/16
Endangered Burmese Elephants
မုိးနည္းၿပီး ပူျပင္းလြန္းတဲ့ ရာသီဥတုဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတလႊား သစ္ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး စခန္းေတြမွာ ခုိင္းေစအသံုးျပဳေနတဲ့ ဆင္ေတြရဲ႕ အသက္အႏၱရာယ္ စုိးရိမ္စရာရွိျပီး၊ အသက္ ၅ ႏွစ္ေအာက္ ဆင္ေပါက္စေတြရဲ႕ ေသဆံုးမွဳ (၂) ဆ ျမင့္မားလာႏုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ ျဗိတိန္ႏုိင္ငံ ရွက္ဖီးလ္ တကၠသုိလ္(University of Sheffield) က ေနာက္ဆံုးထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္တဲ့ သုေတသန အစီရင္ခံစာသစ္မွာ သတိေပးေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ RFA အဖြဲ႔သား ကုိေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ေအာင္က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
White Elephant In Myanmar
Myanmar/Beautiful magic Mingun (Mandalay-Myanmar) Part 14
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Mingun-Mandalay
Mingun is a town in Sagaing Region, northwest Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. Its main attraction is the ruined Mingun Pahtodawgyi.
The Mingun temple is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die. The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at 150 metres (490 ft). Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839. Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of the stupa can be seen nearby.
King Bodawpaya also had a gigantic bell cast to go with his huge stupa, the Mingun Bell weighing 90 tons, and is today the largest ringing bell in the world. The weight of the bell in Burmese measurement, is 55,555 viss or peiktha (1 viss = 1.63 kg), handed down as a mnemonic Min Hpyu Hman Hman Pyaw, with the consonants representing the number 5 in Burmese astronomy and numerology.
The Mingun Bell is a bell located in Mingun, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. It is located approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Mandalay on the western bank of the Irrawaddy River. It was the heaviest functioning bell in the world at several times in history.At 90 tons, the Mingun Bell reigned as the largest ringing bell in the world until 2000, when it was eclipsed by the 116-ton Bell of Good Luck at the Foquan Temple, Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
Mingun Pahtodawgyi:
The Mingun temple is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die.[citation needed] The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at 150 metres (490 ft). Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839. Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of the stupa can be seen nearby.
Hsinphyumae Pagoda:
Just a couple of hundred yards from the great stupa and bell lies the beautiful white Hsinbyume or Myatheindan Pagoda with a distinctive architectural style modelled after the mythical Mount Meru (Myinmo taung), built in 1816 by Bodawpaya's grandson and successor Bagyidaw and dedicated to the memory of his first consort Princess Hsinbyume (Lady of the White Elephant, granddaughter of Bodawpaya, 1789--1812) who died in childbirth.
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Each morning at the break of dawn, Zaw Win and his team herd their elephants across the sweeping forest floor down to the river bank. They scrub and clean the mighty mammals before harnessing them to begin their day's work. Zaw Win, a third-generation oozie [Burmese for elephant handler] keeps a close eye on his animals which are his livelihood.
Decades of military dictatorship has meant many aspects of Myanmar are frozen in time. One of those traditions dates back thousands of years - the timber elephant.
Myanmar has around 5,000 elephants living in captivity - more than any other Asian country. More than half of them belong to a single government logging agency, the Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE). Elephants are chosen over machines because they do the least damage to the forest.
These elephants have survived ancient wars, colonialism and World War II while hard woods extracted by elephants in Myanmar once fed the British naval fleet. Yet today, Myanmar's timber elephant is under threat.
Once the richest reservoir for biodiversity in Asia, Myanmar's forest cover is steadily depleting and the government blames it on illegal loggers.
Now, the forest policy is being overhauled.
The Ministry for Environmental Conservation and Forestry has pledged to reduce its logging by more than 80,000 tonnes this fiscal year. Myanmar will ban raw teak and timber exports by April 1, 2014, allowing only export of high-end finished timber products.
MTE says that the private elephant owners contracted by the government will be the first on the chopping block. Saw Moo, a second generation private elephant owner, sees a bleak future for his stable of 20 elephants. He fears the family business will end in his hands and he may have to sell his elephants, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
101 East follows the oozies deep into Myanmar's forests, gaining unprecedented access to remote elephant logging camps and witnessing the extraordinary communication between elephants and men as they work.
But will the elephants and their handlers, who have survived kingdoms and military dictatorships, survive democracy and the open market? Is there a place for them in a changing modern world?
101 East asks if this could be the end of Burma's mighty timber elephants.
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