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A load-a pagodas: A journey through Bagan Holly Graham conquers pagodas, mountains and monkeys during a trip to Myanmar’s beautiful temple town of Bagan ...
Kanika Datta visits the crumbling but oddly appealing complex of Bagan - a place where even an atheist can come close to a divine experience.
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 Directorate of Hotels and ...
AS DAWN breaks over the pagoda-studded city of Bagan, hot-air balloons drift gently over what was once the ancient capital of Burma. Much has changed in the Southeast Asian nation, now called ...
UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first nominated for listing. The ...
The top of a collapsed pagoda is seen after an earthquake in Bagan, Myanmar August 25, 2016. Photo by Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun "I heard sounds after I paid homage at a pagoda. There were foreign tourists ...
Tourism to Myanmar is rapidly increasing, and it's changing to accommodate the visitors. Here's one crowd-avoiding experience.
A ceremony to launch the renovation project of Thatbyinnyu Pagoda aided by China has been held in Myanmar's Bagan, according to a release from the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar late on Saturday (Jan 8).
Bagan: Myanmar's city of a thousand pagodas 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 ...
Everyone visiting Myanmar eventually finds their way up north - to Bagan. As a matter of fact, Bagan summarises the very existence of Myanmar, its culture and history. In the present, it is also ...
Myanmar president Htin Kyaw (C) and goverment officals inspect the damaged ancient pagoda of Sulamani the day after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Bagan, on August 25, 2016 Ye Aung Thu, AFP ...