Pindaya is one of the loveliest in the Shan State passing through enchanting villages like Pwe Hla where over 2,000 Shan, Pa-O and Danu hill tribes people live. This town is 3,880 feet above sea level, and is situated at the foot of western ridge of mountains over 5,000 feet high. You can see fields of red- colored earth where potatoes and cabbages are grown and sent by trucks to all over Myanmar. There are also fields of dry cultivated mountain rice, tangerine orange groves, avocado orchards and other vegetables and fruits all along this fertile area.
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Pindaya Cave The Pindaya cave is a huge cavern where hundreds and thousands of Buddha images in various size and shape are installed the 11th century. The winding galleries and nooks and comers are ideal places of insight meditation since the olden days. Huge monastery compounds with numerous pagodas and temples in different stages of dilapidation are much respected by such …
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