Ayeyarwady - Life Along Myanmar's Great River | Part 2 | Free Documentary Nature

Ayeyarwady - Life Along Myanmar's Great River - Part 2: From Mandalay to the Delta | Nature
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Myanmar is dominated by the mighty Ayeyarwady River. The river, which is over 2170 km long and spans the entire country, is the country's lifeline and main transport artery. Since time untold, it has shaped the cultural development of the region.

Nearby the former royal capital of Mandalay lies the village of Kyauk Maung, the nation's ceramics centre. Here, the ceramics dealer Ma Pa Hlaing loads her goods onto a ship that will spend almost the next two months travelling downriver.
It is the "Mya-Ayeya", the largest vessel on the Ayeyarwady, a floating supermarket that travels up and down Burma's great river four times a year. Consisting of two barges secured to a 100-year-old, two-story ferry, the "Mya-Ayeya" is a familiar sight to every child. Ma Pa Hlaing has always sold her wares on the floating supermarket.
When the boat approaches a village, the "market boat song" sounds out from the ship's loudspeakers. Then the market is held until ten o'clock at night – a sensation for the nearby villages. Unfortunately, word has it that the government wants to retire the market boat – with the opening of Myanmar, the focus is now on road construction.
Finally, the market boat arrives at her home port. Yangon, called Rangoon by the former colonial powers, is the largest city in the country. The historic colonial old town is located directly at the harbour, or "Downtown". Nowhere else in the world are there as many colonial structures found in such a small area as here, most of them in prime locations. Many are still in use as schools, hospitals or courts. But investors from all over the world are buying them up – they want to tear these colonial heirlooms down to build high-rises and skyscrapers. The film roams through Yangon with the young architect Claire, a heritage preservation consultant for a government that has little experience in monument protection.
The film leaves Yangon in the company of a small puppet troupe. Just before the mouth of the Ayeyarwady, the river branches off into a network of small rivers and channels: the Ayeyarwady delta area, a unique world of water. And there, where the longest arm of the river meets the Bay of Bengal, stands the last golden pagoda of the Ayeyarwady River, the Maw Tin Pagoda. Once a year, the great temple festival is held here

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