There are four ancient, almost deserted cities surrounding Mandalay that used to be capitals. We ended the day at one of these, Amarapura. As usual, it was only the capital for a few decades, and when it's time of glory was over, the king had all the old buildings dismantled to provide building materials for the new capital. There is a huge monastic school here, where thousands of young boys study to become monks. And there's the extremely picturesque U Bein bridge. When the capital was moved from Amarapura to Inwa, the king used some of the Amarapura building scrap to build this impressive bridge, which crosses the Taungthaman Lake en route to Inwa. Of course, once everything was moved over the bridge from Amarapura to Inwa, the bridge wasn't really needed since Amarapura no longer existed, but it's still here, and at 1.2 kilometers, it's the longest (and narrowest and most rickety) teak bridge in the world.