The Mahamuni Paya, which the houses the statue is bustling with activities. Many women worshippers kneel praying and offering fruit and water. The men are permitted in the inner centre alter, where they could touch the statue and paste gold leaves on it.
Surrounding Mahamuni are bronze Khmer statues which I didn't find as interesting as a two-storey 'temple' housing a 3-D Asia map. There is a small alley behind with vendors selling a few different species of birds, including what looked like baby owls!
Cost (US$1 = 750 kyat):
- 4,000 kyat - pick up from bus station to central Mandalay
- 1,100 kyat - dough fritters and egg prata breakfast
- 1,500-2,500 kyat - rickshaw rides
- 5,600 kyat - late lunch Chinese food at Mann Restaurant
- 2,000 kyat - mini pizza and curry puff at City Mart Seasons Cafe
- 8,000 kyat - live comedy by the Moustache Brothers (star buy)
- US$20 - stay at Sabai Phyu Hotel, good location with tea shops and food all around but no hot shower. Rooms are a little dusty, probably due to the construction of new rooms beside ours
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