The way up to the Mandalay Hill

The way up to the Mandalay Hill, originally uploaded by wufgaeng against censorship.

During the time when Buddha was alive while on one of his visits to Myanmar, the Buddha with his disciple Ananda climbed Mandalay Hill and prophesied that a great city would be founded below the hill and also pointed the place of that future city. Then a huge standing Buddha image was built at the place where Buddha stood, with his hand pointing to the Royal Palace. The legend has it that the Buddha, on his visit, had made a prophecy that a great city would be founded at the foot of this hill.

Uploaded by wufgaeng against censorship on 28 May 06, 7.53AM PDT.