Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan is Southeast Asia’s oft overlooked temple hotspot, boasting Buddhist pagodas and monasteries that once stood 10,000 strong. The total now sits at around 2,200 ...

So, make it to the top, take a breath and look out into the distance: This is Bagan, capital of a powerful ... it is filled with more than 2,000 temples, pagodas and other religious shrines.

Bagan is more than a travel destination — it’s a living monument to a glorious past, where over 2,000 ancient temples, pagodas, and stupas rise from the plains of central Myanmar in haunting ...

Thousands of temples are spread across the plains of Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), serving as a symbol of the religious devotion of the country’s people and their rulers over the centuries. They ...

A decade later, Bagan fell. Although many of the temples and pagodas fell into disuse in the following centuries, Bagan resumed importance as a place of Buddhist pilgrimage in the 15th century.

In Myanmar, the focus will be on the temples and pagodas of Pagan’s golden age, which began in the 11th century. The trips end in Cambodia at Angkor, considered the cultural and spiritual heart ...

The people believed in the acquisition of good karma through the construction of pagodas and temples; to build a temple was to earn merit. The ruins of medieval Bagan is called the Bagan ...

“I think such a ban is not the answer to preserve the old temples in Bagan,” he said. “By systematically allowing tourists to clamber over the distinctive landscape of thousands of ...

Viewing Bagan as a project that could deliver ... hold up the ‘umbrella’ [ornaments that top most Burmese pagodas] of Sulamani temple,” he says. Unsurprisingly, Sulamani was the first ...

A land trip from Yangon to Bagan takes about 10 to 15 hours. Several huge, golden pagodas stand majestically in stark contrast to the dark early-morning sky. Other pagodas, temples and stupas of ...