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Legendary Golden TEAK WOOD Legendary Golden TEAK WOOD ASEAN HERITAGE TRAIL Legendary Golden TEAK WOOD Legendary Golden TEAK WOOD Map Attractions not to be Missed Museums and Elephants Sanctuaries Gastronomy Delights All About Craft, Design and Textile Living Arts Highlights ASEAN HERITAGE TRAIL Legendary Golden Teak Wood Teak wood brought prosperi mainly to Myanmar, Northern Thailand Over the years, concessions were given to half a dozen foreign companies, and Laos. Today, magnificent mansions and temples as well as mostly from Britain. Among the most famous were the Borneo Company preserved forests testf of this wealth. Limited, the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporaton but also Det Østasiatske Since the start of the 19th centry, teak wood has been considered as one of Kompagni (East Asiatc Company), Louis T. Leonowens Limited and the Siam the most precious items for trading in Southeast Asia. Teak wood trading Forest Company. There was also Kim Seng Lee, a Chinese company receiving th is a fascinatng story similar to a novel that explains also the historical and a concession. In the first decades of the 20 centry, companies became cultral evoluton of a vast region covering in Southeast Asia Burma (Myanmar also involved in the development of infrastructres such as canals or rail. today), Lanna principalies (today Northern Thailand) and a bit of Laos. All the Teak was skidded by elephants, as those animals were (and stll are) deemed to ingredients are there for a great novel: wars, fear of foreign powers and fights carry the logs due to their rounded shape and their capaci to access areas to consolidate business, negotatons, powerful noble people and traders. Teak difcult for vehicles. As an example, despite mechanizaton, half of the teak wood created a unique cultral and heritage legacy for the entre northwest part logged in Myanmar is stll done by elephants. Many can be visited in sanctaries of the current ASEAN. or camps which are acknowledged to treat animals with respect and care. Teak is recognised as a most valuable premium wood due to its textre, colour In the three countries, rivers were used for teak transportaton. In Northern and durabili. The wood has efectvely a colour varying between the gold and Thailand, logs were sent on the Ping, Wang, Yom and Nan Rivers before a reddish brown, a delicate patern and above all an extreme resilience. Many reaching the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. In Laos, the Mekong River used experts consider teak wood as one of the most extraordinary wood in the world. to carry logs up to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh Ci) during colonial tmes while Teak is only indigenous to four countries which are India and in Southeast Asia in Myanmar, teak was transported essentally along the Irrawaddy River to in Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Teak wood forests are then unique to ASEAN. Yangon. The floatng season mostly lasted from May to February. The world has indeed a long love story with teak wood. Teak has been a very Teak wood industry’s development brought prosperi to local noblemen appreciated good for trade since the 18th centry. Its resilience quali made it and merchants and this is the legacy lef today all around the region. Many the perfect wood to build ships, especially the vessels of trading companies cies managed to preserve teak wood houses and temples, some of the from Europe. There are historical tracks over Arab traders along Tanintharyi most remarkable teak heritage cies being Phrae, Lampang and Chiang Mai coast in the south of Myanmar who built ships made of teak wood and set up in Thailand, Bago in Myanmar. Visitors can there discover exquisite houses the first warehouses for repairing vessels. and religious shrines with delicate sculptres, bas reliefs as well as exquisite Rapidly, Myanmar established itself as the trade centre for teak wood in the handicraf. Other areas are now natonal parks or preserve elephants, ofen region, partcularly afer Great Britain’s victory over Burma in the Second formerly used in logging. Teak wood is definitely deeply rooted in the cultre Anglo-Burmese War of 1852. The newly created Lower Burma- part of Brish of Northwest ASEAN. This trail has then be created to pay respect to one of the India- brought economic stabili helping to establish a flourishing teak most fabled woods in the world and also to remind tourists about the fragili of trade in the region. natre and today fight to preserve not only its resources but also its heritage. Northern Thailand with its vast teak wood forests played a specific role as teak trade expanded into Northern Siam where merchants had only to get permission from local rulers. In the early decades of the 19th centry, Lanna various kingdoms and principalies as vassal states to Siam were sending every year tributes in the form of teak wood FACTS ABOUT TEAK WOOD to Bangkok. But local princes were also trading with neighbouring Burmese In 2010, experts recorded some 22.2 million hectares (ha) of natral merchants especially as trade was concentrated in the hands of Shan and Karen teak forests in the three Southeast Asian countries mentoned above. Myanmar represented 60% of all teak forests in the region with 13.5 people, ethnics present in both Burma and Northern Thailand. million ha followed by Thailand with 8.7 million ha. Laos represents To limit however chaotc –and sometmes lawless- trading, teak deforestaton only a tny porton with 15,000 ha as teak wood forests are mainly an as well as to assert a beter control over foreign companies looking for extension of existng forests in Thailand. business, King Rama V the Great established in 1897 the Royal Forest. It For decades, teak wood forests were depleted to satsf demand but things have changed in recent years. Natral teak forests are now helped to centralized all the teak business formalies in Siam, provided protected while the plantaton of teak forests is expanding. concessions and collected of course revenues for the State. LEGENDARY GOLDEN TEAK WOOD | 2 Introduction | 3 MAP Legendary Golden Teak Wood Tak Lampang Chiang Mai Utaradit Phrae Nan Phayao Learning centre for novices in Xayaboury (Sayaboury), LAO PDR Bago Taungoo Mawlamyne 13 Xayaboury (Moulmein) Phayao Taungoo 8 9 Chiang Mai 12 Nan Xayaboury Kyaikthanlan Pagoda 6 7 in Mawlamyine (Moulmein), Lampang 10 11 Phrae MYANMAR Utaradit 1 2 Bago 5 Tak N 3 4 Mawlamyne (Moulmein) ASEAN HERITAGE TRAIL LEGENDARY GOLDEN TEAK WOOD Wat Sitalaram in Tak, THAILAND 4 JOURNAL PLANNER Legendary Golden Teak Wood Trip Name: Members: Date to Travel: Date Destnaton Travel by Stay at Time Where to What to do Route LEGENDARY GOLDEN TEAK WOOD Attractions not to be Missed 11 LEGENDARY GOLDEN TEAK WOOD Attractions not to be Missed 1 3 4 Mawlamyine, MYANMAR 2 3 Kyaikthanlan Pagoda in Mawlamyine (Moulmein) is the most famous and the highest pagoda in town, dominatng the ci from its 46 m height. The pagoda was built in 875 but totally restored in the 19th 1 Kyaik Pun Pagoda, Bago Bago, MYANMAR centry. From the pagoda, there is a fabulous view over Mawlamyine but Located 4.5 km away from Bago ci, the 1476-built Kyaik Pun Pagoda is also over nearby islands and the limestone mountains of Kayin State. The probably one of the most interestng to discover due to the presence of four pagoda is famous thanks to Brish writer Rudyard Kipling as it is mentoned 27 meter-high towering images of Buddha. They are standing next to the in his poetry book “The Road to Mandalay”. yinbyin – a platform surrounding a pagoda where people generally pray- and represent the four Buddhas who reached Nirvana. 4 Mawlamyine First Baptst Church Mawlamyine, MYANMAR 2 Kyaiktyo Pagoda, Mon State Mon State, MYANMAR was constructed in 1827 by American Missionary Adoniram Judson, a famed Some 80 km from Bago, this pagoda is a must-see for any traveller. Like American missionary. While the exterior of the church takes its inspiraton a miracle, a tny pagoda tops a granite boulder covered with gold leaves from English-influenced, Gothic Revival design, the exceptonal use of teak regularly changed by male devotees. Another miracle is that the rock wood in the constructon of its inside structre as well as furnitre show the crowned by the pagoda seems to def gravi laws as it looks that it would crafs expertse of local Mon people. In town, look at the crumbling colonial- roll down the hill at any tme. Legends tell that the pagoda contains a hair era structres lef by Brish which once gave to Mawlamyine its nickname of from Lord Buddha, which prevents the rock of falling down… “Litle London”. LEGENDARY GOLDEN TEAK WOOD | 12 Attractions not to be Missed | 13 6 5 7 6 Kad Kong Ta Walking Street Lampang, THAILAND Although the old market street has trned over years into a must-see in Lampang ci, it stll retains its laid-back atmosphere with its numerous wooden houses blending Burmese, Thai and European stles with intricate wood carvings. They testf of Lampang teak-wood related prosperi which atracted a high number of Burmese, Chinese and European merchants. On weekends, the street is trning pedestrian with a lively night market. 5 Wat Sitalaram and Trok Ban Chin Tak, THAILAND 7 Wat Si Rong Mueang, Lampang Lampang, THAILAND In Tak old town, Wat Sitalaram ofers a unique structre for its European stle ordinaton hall. Near to the temple is Trok Ban Chin, a small alley where The temple is a tpical Burmese stle structre all made of teak wood and rare Siamese heritage wooden houses –most in teak wood- line up along built by Burmese immigrants working in the teak wood logging 100 years ago.
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