The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

CHAPTER V
RANGOON TO BHAMO
Pegu The Shwe-hmaw-daw The great Buddha Karen women
Toungoo Amarapura and Ava Sagaing Katha
Shwegu.
TOURING in the interior of Burma is difficult unless
you stick to the routes followed by
the Irawadi
Flotilla steamers or to the railways. The latter
are metre gauge, with a total
length
of 1353 miles
in May 1903, and the principal projected extensions,
for which the Government is to provide 1,500,000,
are from Pegu to Martaban, opposite Moulmein,
122 miles, and from Henzada 68 miles to Kyangin,
on the Irawadi.
Burmese standard time employed
on the railway
is six hours and thirty minutes
ahead of Greenwich, or one hour ahead of Indian
standard time.
On the way to
Mandalay by the railway you
can, between the trains, visit Pegu,
the ancient