Amarapura is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay bounded by the Irrawaddy river. The name means City of Immortality, and Amarapura was the capital of Myanmar for three discrete periods during the Konbaung dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries before finally supplanted by Mandalay 11 kilometers north.
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U Bein Bridge and Amarapura
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