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Taunggyi
Taunggyi is the capital of the Shan state of the Burmese
Union and is with 150,000 inhabitants the fourth largest town
of Myanmar (after Yangon, Mandalay and Maw-La-Myne, formerly
Moulmein). Taunggyi is situated 1,400 meters above sea level
about 500 kilometers north of Yangon and about 10 kilometers southeast
of Mandalay. The town on a steep mountain side in the southern
reaches of the Himalaya is mainly inhabited by Shans, a people
ethnically not related to the Burmese but rather to the Thais.
Taunggyi has no unique, architectural attractions, but
is more of an attraction as a whole concerning its location
on a steep mountain side and its atmosphere due to the Shan population.
Furthermore, the surrounding mountain landscape with the Inle
lake is exceedingly picturesque.
To reach Taunggyi you first have to fly to Heho, about
40 kilometers to the West, because the town itself does not boast
an airfield.
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