"Amarapura - Home of U Beins Bridge" Top 5 Page for this destination Amarapura by herzog63

Amarapura Travel Guide: 72 reviews and 162 photos

Amarapura

Before I arrived in Mandalay I hadn't heard of Amarapura! I did read about U Beins Bridge in the Lonely Planet guide but didn't realize that it was in Amarapura. On my truck ride into Mandalay from the bus stop I was approached by a "Guide" and he had all kinds of papers showing the "Ancient Cities" And he was willing to give us a tour in a taxi for $25 for the whole day. It sounded expensive to me as I thought I could do it for $10. I wanted to include Mingun too and see what I could see in 12 hours. He said well Mingun was a bit out of the way and that would be an extra $10. Well that was more than I wanted to spend. In my tired state I ended up agreeing to $32 for the guy to pick us up at 8 am and take us to Amarapura, Inwa, Mingun and Sagaing. I did find out later that I could have done this trip for alot cheaper! I was very tired as I had just come off my 17 hour night bus ride from Yangon. And being a man of my word I stayed with him. But if you want to go you can take one of the smaller blue taxi's and do all of this for about $12-$15. My guide was not a real adventurous guide either. He would tell us stuff and then kind of hang around the car while we walked around. In our price we also had a driver. It would be cheaper to just get a guy that is the driver and drag along a guide book. Unless you want to listen to somebody explain stuff as you go along. We had a pleasant enough day and we got to see all of the things that I wanted to see plus some stuff that I hadn't asked about.

Pros and Cons

Pros:Ancient Cities
Cons:Hmmm....nothing I can think of
In a nutshell:Ancient Cities!

Last visit to Amarapura: Mar 2003
Intro Written May 17, 2003
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drying bamboo Local Customs (9)

I noticed that drying bamboo was laying on the ground in front of almost all of the houses on the Thaungthaman side of... more travel advice

Ruins in the village of Taungthaman Off The Beaten Path (7)

After you cross U Bein's bridge you will come to the village of Taungtaman. Here it seemed like the main industry was... more travel advice

U Bein's Bridge at Dusk Things to Do (9)

Walking across U Bein's Bridge late in the day and watching the sun go down is a great sight!! At that time of day/night... more travel advice

Crazy boys on the Bridge Off The Beaten Path (7)

As my son and I were walking across U Beins Bridge and taking in the beautiful views we were approaching one of the... more travel advice

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Transportation (1)
Small blue truck

Comments (32)

Faiza-Ifrah Apr 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM Report Abuse

hello stranger ! i was watching burma on animal planet and today i came over VT i decided to visit a burma page from your pages. this is xclent information here :-)
Hosell May 13, 2005 at 2:27 PM Report Abuse

Our pages looks much better on my new LCD screen for my computer!!!! I was missing see your pages lately!!!! take care my friend!!!
l_joo Aug 19, 2004 at 10:11 PM Report Abuse

This location looks absolutely Off the beaten path....nice introduction
kyoub Jul 26, 2004 at 6:50 PM Report Abuse

Great pictures and a very interesting page. Good job.
shrimp56 Jun 21, 2004 at 11:13 AM Report Abuse

Amazing place and page:) I LOVE the little blue truck ;)
Bwana_Brown May 6, 2004 at 3:20 PM Report Abuse

The idyllic scenes at U Bein's Bridge are amazing!! It must have been quite somthing to experience the quiet time there before darkness fell!
JamesWtc Apr 18, 2004 at 2:14 AM Report Abuse

cool picture of Monks>>>
Waxbag Jan 7, 2004 at 5:52 AM Report Abuse

Great Page! Amarapura is amazing for all artisans workers producing labor intensive products. Life here is fascinating and feels like a time long ago.
Bonobo2005 Nov 22, 2003 at 8:27 AM Report Abuse

Scott, you keep surprising me with your Myanmar Book; again a top quality chapter full of detail and atmosphere!! superb pix also, esp. that of drying cotton (the 1st tip that made it to my CTG)
dr.firas Sep 26, 2003 at 10:02 PM Report Abuse

Great Page Scotty! would say like my sweet friend Sim1 : Another Fantastic page Scott, Wow! hee hee hee:-))