Mahar Ganar Yone monastery, in Amarapura, is one of the most visited historical and religious sites in Mandalay area. The rush hour for visiting it is 11 am, when a long procession of about thousand monks diligently queues for having lunch in a very big courtyard/dining hall, equipped with tables and huge marmites of rice. From the description, you could think it’s a meditative and contemplative moment, but in fact our recording witnesses the development of this ritual, regulated by the tolls of a bell, in the middle of an immense crowd of tourists, arranged behind barriers in order to ease the passage of the monks.

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