Sinkyone Fortress

Myanmar (Burma)


This is one of outer Mandalay's trio of 19th-century fortresses that failed to prevent the British conquest in 1885. Two cannons and the moated square bastions are all that remain, but the view back to Sagaing is attractive.


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