Green Elephant

Mandalay


This is basically Burmese cuisine for tour groups, though individuals can usually get a slightly adapted version with six or so dishes on request. The food is good, so if you're nervous about trying Burmese outside on the street, this is a solid bet, but otherwise it's local cuisine with significantly marked-up prices.


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0.53 MILES

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2. Moat & Fortress Walls

0.73 MILES

Viewable only from the outside, a 230ft-wide moat and well over 4 miles of crenellated 26ft-high walls form a vast square around the site of the former…

3. Shwenandaw Kyaung

1.17 MILES

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4. Mandalay Palace

1.21 MILES

The 1990s reconstruction of Mandalay's royal palace features more than 40 timber buildings constructed to resemble the 1850s originals. Climb the curious…

5. Atumashi Kyaungdawgyi

1.24 MILES

This unusually shaped temple is a series of diminishing stupa-dotted terraces over an arched base decorated with peacock motifs. When built in 1857, it…

6. Culture Museum

1.29 MILES

Within the palace complex, this small, neglected museum holds poorly displayed relics gleaned from the old Burmese royal family. The most intriguing…

7. Sandamuni Paya

1.41 MILES

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8. Kuthodaw Paya

1.49 MILES

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