Mount Popa Bagan

... the alternative which involved him biting or scrating at me causing diseases that I'd rather not have thanks very much. The temple of Mount Popa itself wasn't really up to much, nothing new from the rest of the Myanmar really but the view from the top ...

... , the hotel management had an interesting proposition for us.   Two other tourists were trying to get a group to visit Mount Popa the next day and would we be interested?    It was something I'd been mulling doing anyways, and it ...

... out of Bagan to two nearby sites, Mt. Popa to the east, and the town of Salay to the south.   Mount Popa is geographically impressive.  Said to be the core of an extinct volcano, it rises dramatically from the surrounding plain like ...

... beautiful in Myanmar and if there was only one place you could visit in this incredible country, make it Bagan! Desapointing visit to Mount Popa During our stay we made an excursion to mount Popa, 50 Km away from Bagan. This huge ...

... Lebensformen darauf hinterlassen: von Bethelnusskauerspucke bis Fledermauskot. Mount Popa Sechzig Kilometer entfernt von Bagan befindet sich Mount Popa, ein Wallfahrtsort auf einem einem alten Vulkanfelsen - ein wenig wie in Suedfrankreich in Le Puy - ...

In the morning we all gathered for the ride to Mt Popa.   Mount Popa is a 737m-high monastery devoted to nat (local deities) worship.    It's also monkey-central.    Large troops of monkeys live all around and you have to keep a ...

... in Bagan was our own independent walking excursion which we took while the others in our group went on an optional tour to Mount Popa where they were attacked by monkeys and had to walk barefoot up stairs covered with monkey poo.  They weren't very ...

... that it was tip top. Anyway took about an hour and a half to get there. The land here is very flat and then you see Mount Popa standing on its own at 1520 m. The attraction is the monestry at the top. The drawback is you gotta climb the whole thing ...

... people's questions are answered, ect.)   There is an outdoor Temple here that is dedicated to the nat (spirit) of Mount Popa, Mae Wanna and her two sons Min Lay and Min Gyi. Mae Wanna's husband was Muslim and was employed by King ...

... ;mustard seed being pressed into oil. We also tasted palm sugar candies, palm whiskey and had typical myanmar treats. All very tasty. Then we continued to Mount Popa to visit the "nat" (spirits) temples and the monastary atop Mount Popa.  Again, ...