Not too far from the Kuthodaw Pagoda is the Atumashi Kyaung, or Incomparable Monastery (Maha Atulawaiyan Kyaungdawgyi) , was originally built in 1857 by King Mindon (1853-1879), who had founded his new capital of Upper Burma at Mandalay just a few years earlier in 1855. It was one of the King's last great religious construction projects.

Kuthodaw Pagoda is known as the World’s Largest Book built by King Mindon in 1857. Within its premises are the complete Tipitaka Buddhist Scriptures on 729 stone slabs set around the Pagoda.

This Pagoda of the Great Marble Image stands at the foot of Mandalay Hill. It was built in 1865. Kyauktawgyi Pagoda is so called because of its huge seated image of the Buddha sculpted from a single block of beautiful Sagyin marble which was quarried from Sagyin Hill, a few miles to the north of Mandalay.

King Bodawpaya built this Pagoda in 1784 to house the Mahar Myat Muni Buddha Image brought from Rakhine State. Being the most revered Pagoda in Mandalay, the early morning ritual of washing the face of the Buddha's image, draws a daily crowd of devotees. Located at the Southwest of the town the Mahar Myat Muni Buddha Image is the highly venerated.

The 4m high-seated image is cast in bronze and weigh 6.5 tons, which it's crown is decorated with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. Mahar Myat Muni Buddha Image was being cast in front of the Buddha himself it can say Mahar Myat Muni Buddha Image is the portrait of Buddha and the face is most revered.

Every morning at 4:30AM, a team of monks washes the face and brushes the teeth. Since Myanmar Buddhists are so devout countless thousands of devotees apply gold leaf to gain merit, the image has completely covered with 15 cm thick gold and original shape is distorted.

The dominant natural feature of Mandalay is its 790 ft (240 m) Mandalay Hill which towers above the city and the flat plain below. Virtually all visitors and pilgrims to Mandalay either climb the 1,729 steps of the covered southern stairway with its magnificent guardian chinthe (half-lion, half-dragon) at the entry, use stairways on the other sides or use easier means and take the escalator, cars or buses to the top.

From its top, and from several way-stations along the ascent, one has a magnificent panorama of the city, the old Royal Palace and Fortress, as well as the Ayeyarwaddy river and the distant Shan Hills. 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.

Mandalay palace was the first palace to be built in Mandalay, by King Mindon when he shifted his capital from Amarapura in 1861, to fulfill an old prophecy. The site was chosen with the auspicious omen and astronomical calculations. The magnificent palace was built of teak wood on raised brick plinth gilded with gold and vermillion.

The queens' chambers in order of priority 1 Southern, 2 Northern and 3 Lesser queens in the West. All ancillary buildings for the court, the fortified high walls with ramparts, the moat, water systems, roads, gardens with shady tamarind trees, recreational playgrounds, swimming pools, mint, security ports with infantry, cavalry, archers, artillery, sheds for royal elephants, stables, audience halls, throne halls, religious edifices and monastery and devotional halls were superbly planned and executed to minute details. The implementation and completion of construction took five years (from 1857 to 61). The artistic workmanship and handicrafts depicting the glory of the golden age of the days gone by is still amazing, awe inspiring and the beholder will be spell bound with wonder.

The Sandamuni Pagoda is located to the southeast of Mandalay Hill and bears a resemblance to the nearby Kuthodaw pagoda because of the large number of slender whitewashed ancillary stupas on the grounds. The pagoda complex was erected on the location of King Mindon’s provisional palace, the “Nan Myey Bon Tha.” which he used until his permanent Royal Palace was completed in the center of the Royal City (now Mandalay Fort).

The Paya is also famous for the Iron Buddha Sandamani cast by King Bodawpay (1782-1819) of the Konbaung dynasty in 1802, and which King Mindon and brought from Amarapura to his new pagoda and shrine in 1874. This was the seventh and last of the many journeys of the Iron Buddha, frequently moved because of wars and the shift of capitals in the nineteenth century.

Accompanying this largest solid iron Buddha image were eighty statues of saint disciples, which are now sheltered in mini-stupas around the pagoda. The statue reportedly weighs 40,924.8 lbs or 18.562 metric tons. It now is covered with gold foil attached by believers over the decades. Additionally there are 1774 marble slabs inscribed with Commentaries and Sub-commentaries on the Tipitaka, means “Three Baskets of Buddha’s teaching” in the Pali language. Each is 5.5 ft high 3.5 ft wide and .5 ft thick. Some have called the grouping “Volume II of the World’s Largest Book,” in a clear reference to the adjoining Kuthodaw Pagoda, which contains the full text of the Tipitaka itself on 729 slabs.

The project and the housings of the slabs were the result of the successful campaign in 1913 by the famous Hermit of Mandalay Hill, U Khanti (or Kanti), who also designed the iron covered causeways and devotional halls and the book-like layout of the tablets. A repair operation begun in 1991 changed some elements of the Sandamuni. The uncompleted stupas housing the slabs were completed and the existing ones were repaired. It now is in a good state of repair.

Shwe Inbin Monastery is attractive monastery built in traditional Burmese fashion is one of the few buildings that have survive the test of time. Constructed in 1895 by Chinese merchants, the monastery consists of many impressive woodcarvings and also contains a number of estimable works of art.

At present there are 35 monks that live in the monastery complex which is held up by the classical teak foundation that is often seen throughout the country but rarely in as good condition as at this enlightening site.

Shwenandaw monastery is of great interest not only as a masterpiece and a superb example of a traditional wood carving techniques but as a delicate reminder of the old Mandalay Fort.

The Shwe Nandaw Kyaung was the building in which King Mindon died. After the King's death, his son and successor Thibaw moved the building to its present location. King Thibaw used the building for meditation for a short time, but later, in 1879, donated it to monks for use as a monastery.

The construction is covered inside and out with carved teak panels. The carved teak panel inside one is still in excellent condition but many of the external team have been valued off and removed because of the bad weather.

It is situated between 84th and 85th Roads, between 26th and 27th Roads, in Chan Aye Thazan Township. It was opened on 31-7-94. It is a new six-storey building with 744 shops. The central building has six storeys while the other attached building have four stories. Buyers and customers can use 6 escalators and 2 elevators.

On the ground floor, cloth and fabric, books and stationery and medicines are available.

On the first floor, there are goldsmith and jeweler shops, on the second and third floors, official materials shops, India-make and china-make commodities shops.

On the fourth floor, a playground and on the fifth floor, the Grand Restaurant. It comprises the in-line Zeygyo building, sheds and stalls. The largest market in Mandalay, it is one where there take place the influx and exchange of various products and commodities from upper and lower Myanmar and foreign commodities imported through the border-line trading system.