Thayet

Thayet stands on the western bank of the Irrawaddy between Prome and the dry plains of Upper Burma. The river is the great north–south artery of the country, carrying boats past settlements and Buddhist shrines on its banks. West of Thayet the land rises towards the Arakan Mountains, whose wooded ridges separate the Irrawaddy basin from the Bay of Bengal coast. The river and the mountain country give the town its place at the edge of two different landscapes.