Ava also known as inwa is located nearby amarapura and was once the seat of kings but now the best craftsmen of myanmar work there embroidering tapestries casting bronze carving teak or weaving silk located just across the myintge river ava was another capital city of which little remains but a handful of well preserved monasteries and a few segments of the old city walls peeking out from the tree roots and cultivated fields that have taken over the area