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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 ...
The pair stripped off in broad daylight at a pagoda in the ancient city of Bagan, the country's best-known tourist destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The amateur porn stars ...
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 ...
It is when looking out on to this view, from atop Shwesandaw or Shwegugyi, at sunrise or sunset, that one can fully grasp the significance of Bagan, and its hold on the psyche of the Burmese people.
Bagan, also known as Pagan, is Myanmar's top tourist attraction, drawing visitors from all over the world who can view a panorama ... from the top of Shwesandaw Pagoda in the ancient city of ...
We start our temple odyssey at the glittering Shwezigon Pagoda which is also Bagan’s main religious site ... modern Nann Myint Vieng Tower to view the sunset from its terrace.
Aung Kyaw San: "I can't work at another pagoda" There's rarely a good side to an earthquake. But the quake that shook Myanmar's ancient city of Bagan on 24 August may have a silver lining ...
Bagan had received little outside funding or technical assistance. More typical, then, are the repairs carried out by a lone woman on a nearby pagoda: her only experience, she says, is with ...
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 ...
"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.
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 ...