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(1km), Sao Pu Sao Nai Nat Shrine (1km) & Little Bagan (1km)
HSIPAW Palace Gates
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Lily the Home 5
Mr Charles 2
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Church Taxi Clock- Hire T HA Z IN ST R EET H N IN S I S T R EE T S HW E N YAUN G PIN ST R EE T Market
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Khaing Dhabyay Stand KBZ Park
Bank
Immanuel B O GYO KE ROAD CB Bank
Baptist School
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Don Bosco
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Black House Coffee 5
Club Terrace 4
Mr Charles 2 0 250 Sai Pha
Mrs Popcorn’s Garden 1 Motorbike
Pontoon Coffee 3 metres Hire
Thein Daung Pagoda (2km)
Shan saophas to submit to British rule, and the first to meet Queen Victoria. His
English-educated son, Sao Hke (later Sir Sao Hke), took forty wives and ruled from a
jewel-encrusted throne in his magnificent court at Sakandar, which now lies in ruins
outside Kyaukme (see p.322).
The most well-known of Hsipaw’s saophas, however, was Sao Kya Seng, who ruled
Hsipaw with his Austrian mahadevi, Inge Sargent, from 1954. Hsipaw flourished
under their command, until Sao Kya Seng disappeared in 1962 on his way home
from a political conference in the immediate aftermath of Ne Win’s coup. Save for
two letters smuggled to his wife from a military camp near Taunggyi, Hsipaw’s last
saopha was never heard from again, and the authorities never acknowledged his
death – a story told in Inge Sargent’s book Twilight over Burma, written after she
and the couple’s two daughters had left Burma for the US. Kya Seng and Inge’s
enthronement portrait can be seen around Hsipaw today, a testament to their
lasting popularity.
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