Mandalay - Myanmar

Kuthodaw Pagoda houses the world's largest book. Buddha's teachings are enscribed on 729 marble tablets plus 1 cover stone - double sided no less. Each tablet is approximately 2 meters high by 1.5 meters wide and would take 5 months to recite. Each tablet is housed in its own stone pagoda. 

Shwenandaw Monestary is built with teak carvings of Buddha images.

Craft workers make and apply gold leaf. One ounce of 24 karat gold is pounded and carefully cut into 4600 pieces of gold leaf.

Mya Thein Dan is an enormous white wedding cake style pagoda.

At Mahagandayon Monestary monks line up for a daily meal.

U-Bein bridge is the longest teak bridge in the world, and sunset over the Irrawaddy River.