IMAGE: The Shwedagon Pagoda. The author recommends doing the standard tourist thing and climbing a pagoda of your guide's choosing to catch a panoramic view of Bagan. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters.

Viewing Bagan as a project that could deliver much craved legitimacy, the nation’s military rulers launched an aggressive “beautification” of the site, which had been badly damaged by a 1975 ...

Here's a pagoda, there's a pagoda. In Bagan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, there are no walls or arrows telling you which way to go, but plenty of Buddhas, with serious to smiling visages, to keep ...

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, as BBC ...

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 temples stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma). Most were constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building ...

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 Wednesday ...

3 The entrance of a collapsed pagoda is seen after an earthquake in Bagan, Myanmar, Aug. 25, 2016. 4 Tourists look at a damaged pagoda after an earthquake in Bagan, Aug. 25, 2016. Load more ...

In the Bagan Nyaung U area, a new rainfall record was set in 60 years, and some of the walls of some of Bagan’s ancient pagodas were reported to have collapsed. September 12, Nyaung Oo City According ...

The earthquake which damaged Myanmar's ancient Bagan temples could lead to worrying times for one souvenir seller.

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, as BBC Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. More ...

Bagan earthquake: 'I can't work at another pagoda' Close A powerful earthquake that hit Myanmar last month caused serious damage to some of the thousands of ancient temples on the Bagan plain.