Thamboddhay Temple

In the former Burma, now called Myanmar, when you take a trip by road from Mandalay to Monywa town, there is the temple of Thamboddhay about 15 kilometres before the town. Its construction is relatively modern since it was finished just shortly after WWII ended, but the site is quite different, picturesque, interesting and very, very nice. The colourful temple has hundreds of thousands of different sized Buddha figures and it really is a place that you don't expect after having seen the traditional temples of Bagan or Mandalay. On Siamtrails, there is a tour called Landscape and Burmese Temples in Private with which we toured.