It is worth checking out this rickety but spectacular bamboo bridge that allows you to cross the wide Tapin River.
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At first glance this monastery looks like a 20th-century structure. Historians, though, say it was built in the 13th century, while monastic fables…
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This eye-catching ornate pagoda lies in a rural mainland field, directly across the river from Shwe Baw Kyune and around 2 miles south of central Shwegu…
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