Pindaya
Pindaya ( Burmese ပင်းတယ မြို့ ) is a city in Shan State in Myanmar .
The city is known for the limestone caves in a nearby mountain range, which are a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists and an interesting destination for tourists, as they house more than 8000 statues of Buddha. There is also a five-day market in Pindaya, a common practice in rural areas of Myanmar, where markets are held in a rotating system in five different locations.
etymology
According to a local legend, the term pindaya is a corruption of the word pingu-ya, which translates from Burmese as "the spider has been killed". The name comes from the legend that there was once a large spider that lived in the caves and captured seven local princesses. The princesses were saved when the giant spider was shot by a prince with a bow and arrow, who is said to have exclaimed that he had killed the spider. So the exclamation became the name of the region, from which Pindaya got its name.
gallery
cave
On the way to the market
market
fruit
Umbrella manufacture
literature
- Wilhelm Klein: Burma (= Apa Guides. ) Nelles, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88618-991-0 , p. 248.
- Andrea Markand, Markus Markand, Martin H. Petrich, Volker Klinkmüller: Myanmar. (Burma) (= Stefan Loose Travel Manuals. ) 2nd completely revised edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6147-5 , p. 344.
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Coordinates: 20 ° 55 ′ 30 ″ N , 96 ° 39 ′ 4 ″ E