THE GUIDE - The Rough Guide to Myanmar - page 318

Entrance to the shrines is free . It takes around fifteen minutes to climb to the summit of the
rock, and an hour (or maybe slightly longer) is sufficient to explore the site.
Nat Temple
Before heading up the steps, be sure to visit the quirky Nat Temple , directly opposite the
main stairway. Slightly kooky near life-size mannequins of assorted nats can be found here,
standing along the back wall of the shrine inside a glassed-in corridor, many with banknotes
stuffed into their hands. More or less at the centre of the gallery stands Mai Wunna , the
“Queen Mother of Popa”, flanked by her sons Min Gyi and Min Lay . A few figures down
to the right is the eye-catching Min Kyawzwa , the “Drunken Nat”, mounted on a horse and
festooned with rum bottles and packets of cheroots in honour of his misspent life drinking,
cockfighting and hunting. Further along is an image of the elephant-headed Ganesh , one of
several Hindu gods inducted into the Burmese nat pantheon (where he is known as Maha
Peinne).