Page 346 - The Rough Guide to Myanmar (Burma)

344 NortherN MyaNMar Monywa and around
Pho Win Taung (25km)
Kan Thar
Yar Lake MoNyWa
Footbridge
eatING
Aung Pan 2
Pleasant Island 1 P H O N E S O E S T R E E T

N AY Z A R S T R E E T
YONEGYEE ROAD B O G Y O K E A U N G S A N R O A D T H A R Z I R O A D N

Bogyoke
Statue
Monywa
aGD Railway
Station
S T A T I O N R O A D Bank P Y I H TA U N G S U R O A D K Y A U K K A R O A D
KBZ
Shwezigon Bank PE PIN KYAUNG ST
Pagoda BUTA LAN STATION RD CHAN THAR GYI PAGODA STREET DHAMMAYON STREET
Y O NEGYEE ROAD
KHAR PANNI ROA D
ZA E STREET
8 S T R A N D R O A D ZAY STREET
old AUN G MAHAR ROAD
Market B O G Y O K E A U N G S A N R O A D
PWE SAR TAN STREET
TA YOTE TAN STREET YOAT SOAN KYAUNG STREET Market
New
STREET NUMBER 1
C h i n d w i n R i v e r
NYAUNG DA PIN STREET MYAING THAZIN STREET
THEIM D AW STREET
aCCoMMoDatIoN MARGA STREET
Hotel Chindwin 4 MYAING WAI SAR ST AUNG YEIK THAR STREET
Monywa Hotel 2
Shwe Taung Tarn 3 Jetty MGRG
Win Unity Resort Hotel 1 Boats OHN NEL PIN STREET
THU TA YAR MA STREET
0 500
metres
Bus Station (500m), Thanbodhay Pagoda (10km), Bodhi Tataung (18km), Pakokku (116km), Mandalay (130km) & Bagan (152km)
statue – although visitors are allowed only as far as the sixteenth floor, some way
short of nirvana (and slightly below where the Buddha’s belly button would be).
There’s no lift, either, so it’s a bit of a climb.
The reclining Buddha (completed in 1991) directly in front is only a little less huge,
measuring 95m in length. It’s also hollow, with entrance via the Buddha’s rear (as it
were), although there’s not much to see inside the gloomy interior bar a hall full of
rather battered-looking Buddhist bas-reliefs. Nearby is the huge gilded Aung Sakkya
Pagoda (1979), with fine views of the two statues and surrounding countryside from
its terrace.
Two further supersized Buddha statues – one seated on a nearby hillside and the
other sprawled out asleep (below the reclining Buddha) – are also under construction.
Pho Win Taung and around
• Daily 24hr • $2
Buried deep in the countryside around 25km west of Monywa, Pho Win Taung
(also transliterated as “Hpo Wing Daung”) displays Burmese piety at work upon the

310-355_Myanmar_B2_Ch8.indd 344 30/06/17 2:21 pm