YELE PAGODA IN KYAIKHAMI

It is a site very frequented by the Burmese, the subject of pilgrimages from Mawlamyine (buses depart from the central market at 6 a. m. and 7 p. m.).

You can reach Yele by a jetty, between two monasteries of wood on piles, one for monks and another for nuns, or by descent on the beach, by a passage to the water level. Mon states that the pagoda would have failed on the rocks a long time ago. On the island, the sanctuary is clearly divided into two halls, one of which is forbidden to women. It is still said that a woman has approached, a storm would have devastated the region immediately. Since then, railway station. In the room reserved for men, Buddha sitting on a naga, contemplates the representations of his predecessors, among the men.