Earthquake hits central Myanmar In pictures: Myanmar quake ... Like much of Bagan, it has no historical value. Sulamani Pagoda may have been built in the 12th century but the new reinforced ...

Shwezigon Pagoda was built to enshrine one of the ... I talk to talented artists peddling images of Bagan and the Buddha painted on paper covered with layers of sand. Burmese puppets hang from ...

“This has only happened during the last fortnight,” sighs Joseph, who schooled our group on pagoda etiquette ... hot air balloon shot above Bagan (Getty Images) It’s not the first time ...

Collapsed walls surround an ancient pagoda after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Bagan on August 24, 2016. (Soe Moe Ang/AFP/Getty Images) An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck central ...

1 A woman walks past a damaged pagoda after an earthquake in Bagan, Myanmar, Aug. 25, 2016. 2 A woman farms in a field in front of the Sulamani Guphaya temple, which was damaged after a strong ...

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 temples stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Bagan, Myanmar (formerly ... or "Sunset Pagoda," to enjoy panoramic views of the sprawling ...

This pagoda contains a relic believed to be one of the Buddha’s teeth. It was obtained by Anawrahta in Sri Lanka. Bagan could not be “discovered,” as it had been treasured by the Burmese for ...

"I heard sounds after I paid homage at a pagoda. There were foreign tourists there as well," said Khin Maung Toe, a Myanmar man who was visiting Bagan for the first time when the earthquake struck.

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar's Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan welcomed over 380,000 visitors during the Thadingyut holidays from Oct 16 to Oct 20, Myo Min Aung, assistant director of the Bagan's ...

YANGON (AFP) - A 20-year-old American tourist fell to her death while trying to view the sunset from a 20-foot pagoda in Myanmar's ancient former capital of Bagan, the government said on Wednesday ...

More than 400 of Bagan's buildings were damaged in the earthquake and on the flanks of one of them, Sulamani Pagoda, we watch as a man attacks a lump of rock with a hammer. Until very recently ...