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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An earthquake in 1975 destroyed many of those, including the most ancient, the Bupaya Pagoda from the third century, which was rebuilt on the same spot. Bagan’s temples and the tourist revenue ...

“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 ...

This is not the first time Bagan has been rocked by seismic volatility: in 1975, over half of the estimated 3,000 pagodas and temples the region boasts were damaged in the wake of a 6.5-magnitude ...

"The 6.8 Richter scale magnitude is significantly strong, which is similar to the 1975 quake in Bagan. Some temples or pagoda tops enshrined with jewels also fell to the ground and we were able to ...