Bagan, Myanmar Travel Blogs

Pagoda Marathon
Jul 3, 2008 (19 photos)

... and we disappeared into town for a couple of hours and Zaw got rid of the lacquerware man. It was a relief to be leaving Bagan. We must have seen about 20-30 pagodas and started to get really bored of them. We did visit a village though and they ...

Dreaming Spires....
Feb 27, 2004 (6 photos)

... the other side. Our hotel in Bagan was one of the most plush we'd stayed in and actually clean! As Bagan is one of the top destinations in Myanmar, lots of rich tourists stay there and few backpackers would stay in the hotel we had managed to get for a ...

Bound for Bagan
Feb 15, 2005 (4 photos)

... was stretching into something closer to twelve when we spotted on the horizon just a smattering of the over two-thousand temples of Bagan. The rough winds seemed to hasten our docking as we headed to shore. But where was the dock we wondered and why are ...

Chapter 32: Me and Myanmar, Part 2
Apr 10, 2004 (29 photos)

... . Phew! After 15 hours of travel, I'd made it to Kalaw, which is kind of sad given how close it looks to Bagan on a Myanmar map! As it turns out, Kalaw was excellent. It's an old British hill station - rather similar to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia ...

Temple Tantrums
Feb 19, 2005 (25 photos)

... the holy site. Today it is a UNESCO protected site and attracts more visitors than any other destination in Myanmar. While only a couple handfuls of temples are particularly aesthetically noteworthy it is the visual impact of thousands of temples blurring ...

Temple overload
Feb 9, 2006 (21 photos)

... , and I forced myself into bed early knowing I only had a day and a half of temple siteseeing in Bagan. * * * * My only full day in Bagan was to be spent seeing as much as I possibly could, and simply ...

Temple Heaven
Mar 25, 2007 (129 photos)

... to than Tikal....but wow wow wow its all worth while. The only thing the lonely planet has got right about Myanmar is its description of Bagan....imagine all the cathedral in Europe packed into the area of Manhattan island. Thats almost 50,000 temples.. ...

Historic sites and arduous journeys
Feb 13, 2004

... the travelling, meeting people & seeing places on the way, I flew back to Rangoon. Mrauk U was not as spectacular as Bagan, but laid back & enjoyable nonetheless. I'm not entirely sure it was worth 5 days of travel to get there, but I am still ...

These guys really dig Buddha huh?
Oct 31, 2005 (37 photos)

... cluster of 1,000 year old Buddhist temples and monuments covering an area of about 50 square kilometres in north western Myanmar. There are approximately 2,100 definable structures within this area, some built on a huge scale with many levels and internal ...

The Temples of Bagan
Aug 16, 2005 (12 photos)

... , nothing new from the rest of the Myanmar really but the view from the top was superb. It was a fantastic day out. It was time to move on again. Next stop is Mandalay, Myanmar's second city with four ancient cities to explore in the surrounding area.

The wonders of Bagan
Jan 8, 2004 (14 photos)

... back on solid food, so we caught a bus and headed over to Inle Lake. One last word though, there were package tours everywhere in Bagan, but you could still get out to some and see no one, not even a tout trying to push his goods onto you. So before ...

Bagan's many payas
Dec 16, 2004 (14 photos)

... day we were in Bagan, we shared a taxi to Mt. Popa. Mt. Popa is a tall hill 50 km away from Bagan. It's the holy mountain of Myanmar, home of the Nats (spirits). We would probably have been more impressed by the Mt. Popa had we not already seen the ...

Burmese hip-hop in Bagan
Aug 10, 2007

... places that served food at 9 PM and 5 AM.  After our prompt departure at 3 PM on Monday from Yangon, Nick and I arrived in Bagan after 9 the next morning, fully in tact and still talking to each other. Oh, yes, as I was wondering, what *would* ...

BAGAN - A temple lovers playgound!!!!
Dec 26, 2006 (15 photos)

I spent Christmas of 2006 in Bagan, Burma.   I rented an oversized bicycle with a basket and rode it around the 42 square kilometer temple complex of Bagan, which is peppered with a few thousand temples that are about a thousand years old.  ...

Day off and Sunset at Pyathada
Oct 19, 2009

... off centre entrance and a flat top, this makes it excellent for catching sunset views, word's can't explain and you'll have to wait til I get some pictures up, truly awe inspiring stuff! That night saw us heading back to A Little Bit of Bagan for dinner.

Bagan... Who Knew?
Nov 30, 2006

... remarkable that news of these atrocities rarely gets to the western world.  There is a quandary about visiting places like Myanmar.  In doing so, tourists give money to the government.  This is unavoidable.  So, most tourists, make it ...

Bagan
Dec 27, 2006

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Bagan
Feb 21, 2007 (19 photos)

Bagan - From Mandalay I took a slow boat down the Ayeyarwady to Bagan, Myanmar's number one attraction.  Bagan is a massive area covered with over 4000 temples dating back over a 1000 years.  The temples were built in different ...

Schiffsreise nach Bagan
Oct 26, 2006 (8 photos)

... erreichten. Per Kutsche, Velo und Taxi besuchten wir eine Auswahl (im Promillebereich) dieser Tempel. Leider hat Myanmar kulinarisch nicht viel zu bieten. Zum Abschluss besuchten wir mit unseren franzoesischen Reisegefaehrten ein edles Restaurant, wo ...

Bags to Bagan
Feb 19, 2009 (2 photos)

... out how to pack so were traveling with 6 bags and a wooden screen. Flew Yangon Airways again for the 25 minute transfer to Bagan. We arrived at sunset so saw the temples from the air which was tremendous. It has been said that if Bagan wasn't as remote ...

Bagan
Nov 13, 2006

8 hour bus ride to Bagan.

temples in Bagan
Jan 16, 2008 (6 photos)

today i'm in Bagan where the famous complex of  the buddha temples is, i'm gonna rent a bike and go around to see it, tomorrow i'm going back to Yangon, and on the 18th i have my flight back to Bangkok....

The Ancient Temples of Bagan
Feb 21, 2008 (5 photos)

... short space of time at the instruction of converted kings at this birth of Burmese Buddhism, as it replaced Hinduism in Myanmar to become the now de rigueur religion.   I skip the standard horse-cart option for one of the two days ...

Bagan inspired us perched high in a pagoda ...
Dec 2, 2002

... , Josh, who was nearing the end of his one year travels. Together we set off to rent bikes and explore the wonders of Bagan. City of Temples: A wrong turn led us through the back streets (dirt paths really) and gave us the best views that we were ...

Bagan - Temple Central
Jan 19, 2007 (7 photos)

... .   Rested and fed, we were ready to temple down.   Like many of Myanmar's principal tourist regions, there is a government fee.  For Bagan, it was $20.  No one asked to see proof of payment during our entire ...

Bagan
Oct 17, 2009 (119 photos)

The ancient capital of Myanmar, Bagan, is a great place to chill out.  It is surrounded by green mountains, full of dusty roads, and oh yea, is the site of about 4,500 ancient temples, stupas and pagodas in a 45 square kilometer area.  It is an ...

Floating over a 1000 years of history
Oct 20, 2009

... crew. A very very nice champagne breakfast soon followed and the vendors started to close in, one major difference I've noted with Bagan vendors over Angkor vendors is that if you don't want their stuff they'll generally stop pushing you and just want to ...

Bagan: ancient temples and Buddhism
Apr 1, 2007

... in almost 2 moth!), and a pretty hot humid weather ( around 40 oC at midday)  I landed in Bagan. For those who didn't check anything of Myanmar, I have to enlighten you with the fast fact that Bagan is one of the most religious ancient cities in the ...

Meeting Oscar
Oct 18, 2009

... Pyi Wa which has a 1000 year old pagoda as a neighbour and tried some Mandalay Beer which isn't quite as good as Myanmar Beer.  Over dinner we met two Kiwi English Teachers that have taken a year off and have been travelling since January.  One ...

Temples
Sep 16, 2007 (37 photos)

... worth it. We headed back to town on the pitch black road with no street lights.   We had nice weather while we were in Bagan, but the rain in the north came down the river flooded part of the town. But all was good. We were able to book a cheap ...