The second capital city of Myanmar, Mandalay was built by King Mindon in the year 1859. At that time, it was known as Yadanarbon Shwe Myodaw. It was the last city governs by the Myanmar King. And after 26 years, that is 1885, the British conquered Yadanarbon and was under the British rule and was renamed Mandalay.
The walling of the Mandalay Palace and the most are the reminiscent of Myanmar Kings. Nowadays, new buildings with advanced architect are seen everywhere in Mandalay. Especially you can go up 900 feet high Mandalay Hill by car and have a scenic view. At the foot of Mandalay Hill there is the Kyauktawgyi pagoda and in the compound of Maharlawka Mareinzein pagoda, you will find the world largest books.

Mandalay where we find many pagodas, Myanmar culture and tradition over shadow the city. Then, Mandalay may be called the cultural city of Myanmar Naing Ngan.

Some towns are previously big villages. When the population in these villages increased then the government changed the village to town status, a new town sprung up. Mandalay is not of this type. King Mindon himself chooses the site to build Mandalay town. The king chores a vast flat land to his liking and planned the town systematically. He plotted the quarter cleverly and built wide, strange roads with minimum ups and downs. Now that there have been overhead bridges in Mandalay to climb and get to the other side of the road. People from Mandalay are well cultured, so it is easy to go about and buy things.

Upper Myanmar town forces come to do trading in Mandalay. So there are many markets in Mandalay and the main market is Zay Cho, which is the center of the town.

Myanmar handicrafts such as tapestry of gold, and silver, stone carving and sculpture and Myanmar culture can still be seen in Manddalay. If you come to Myanmar, we invite you to come to Mandalay for a visit, which is not far from Yangon.