Mandalay is the second largest city and the formal royal capital of Myanmar, where traditional culture and customs still flourish. Out of many famous and worth-visiting places in Mandalay, you must visit the great Maha Myat Muni Pagoda.
Everyday, pilgrims from all over the country come to pay homage to the Maha Myat Muni and while at the same time enjoy shopping and buying souvenirs and whatever items they need at the shops lining the pagoda passageway.
One can readily buy bronze wares such as vases, small water-containers, trays and triangular gongs, which are used in religious offerings and bronze irons at reasonable prices.
The shops selling the cotton cloths are themselves producing these materials and so you can buy genuine quality at a reasonable price. As you walk further on the passage way you will fresh, hygienic pickled fruits of all kinds which will make your mouth water, just by looking at them. You will find sour fruits such as wood-apple, mango, crataevo ueligiosa, etc…etc., which are all freshly and hygienically packed to be readily eaten as snacks.

While in Mandalay, you must experience the incredible evenings there. As Mandalay is in the hot region, you will witness people enjoying and relaxing themselves around the palace moats in the evenings, where pushcarts fruit juice vendors are abound. When you order your drink, they will pick fresh fruit of your choice and immediately make the juice in front of you. These fruit-juice vendors will carry on their business late into the night.
These things we mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg. Come to Mandalay, so that you can enjoy the many, many wonderful things. Mandalay has to offer you and go back home, longing for yet another trip, on the road to Mandalay.