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Bagan Slideshow
Bagan
Travel Blogs from Bagan, Myanmar
Mt. Popa
... farm" where we saw 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 ...
First Full Day in Bagan
... , a 13th century cave temple with some interesting frescos; and Ananda Pagaoda, one of the finest, largest and best preserved in old Bagan. We visit Ananda ok Kyaung- a former monastery with 18th century wall paintings. In the late afternoon a horse drawn ...
Bagan
... nice friendly place but with nothing really to make it stand out from the crowd. I guess I should give a quick lowdown on Bagan for the great unwashed out there. Bagan was the centre of a Burmese Kingdom during the time of the European Middle ages. ...
Thousands of Pagodas and Temples
... . Uphill we had to jump out and walk, but on the flat, Nei-Nei requested full speed from her. One of the highlights in Bagan, besides the cultural heritage, was the village of Minkaba (Myin Ka Par) with its market, the public bath and laundry in the ...
Bagan Stupas!
The first thing we did today was climb a stupa for a panoramic view of the Bagan stupas, it was amazing and pictures just cannot do it justice, there are literally thousands of stupas in the area and everywhere you look there's another one. We were the ...
The most nice place in Burma
Hello, if I say the most nice place in Myanmar, then I mean it. All these old temple buildings. Some are nice restaurated, others are as hundreds of years ago. In almost all of them you can find at least one Buddha. We have enjoyed the sunsets. I think ...
birthday in Myanmar... hmm
Well, it's my birthday today. I met an interesting Japanese guy that was travelling from Monywa to Bagan, so we naturally ended up hanging together. He is this rather short, curly haired kid, who happened to be reading the Japanese version of ...
Temples Villages and Half a Day OFF !
... represent his displeasure of captivity. Nanpaya which is Bagan's first gu or cave style shrine and Gubaukyi Temple, in the old Bagan village of Myinkaba, an early period temple with well preserved paintings inside. The afternoon is free for you to ...
Boat to Bagan
After an early night the day before I was feeling much better in preparation for the long boat journey from Mandalay to Bagan down the Ayarwaddy River. It was an 8 o clock departure for the boat and the journey took about 9 and a half hours, the time ...
More Stupas.....
This morning we climbed another stupa for more panoramic views of the Bagan temples, I was a bit "templed out" by this point but the views were still incredible. We then had a local village visit where we saw a calf that had literally just been born and ...
Stupa'd out
... amidst the really old pagodas, taking random pictures. Shu playing with a kid's dog. wonderful and typical day. Day four: Leave Bagan for Kalaw. Jason and I have a bus that leaves at 4 AM, Shu wakes up to see us off and see a pagoda ...
Enjoying like Mr & Mrs Bill Gates
... (Ava), also a former capital city, now a rural village. Interesting was the monastery completed in 1822, so different from the Bagan temples, surely with European influence, and a fort built under guidance of an Ing. Camotto of Italy against attacks from ...
All alone in Bagan
... morning – a long, hot ride in the middle of the day. Goodbye Bagan, but what an experience in an incredibly special place. *** Pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/keith.m.martin/Bagan?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKurevCibHyCg (Thanks to Em for most of ...
BLOODY 10 DOLLAR TICKET!!
... , precedentemente conosciuta come Pagan, e' stata la capitale di parecchi regni antichi in myanmar. Noleggiamo una bicicletta e iniziamo la nostra avventura alla scoperate dei 4000 templi prima che faccia troppo caldo.. ...
Pagodor, pagodor, pagodor
... sex nätter. Väldigt lyxigt känns det, här finns varmvatten och de städar även rummen, första gången för oss i Myanmar. Bagan skiljer sig verkligen från såväl Yangon som Mandalay på det sättet att det är betydligt mer enkelt att vara ...
Monkey poo pedicure anyone?
... , and not a lot else. Thankfully Cheu and I had argued not to be allowed the three hours to climb up and down before returning to Bagan - some on the bus wanted three or four hours at Popa, but we had led a revolt and those wanting just two hours won the ...
* bagan: - bagan entry fee (to be paid when ...
... go to MT Popa: 15$ both ways (for 3 people). A little bit expensive (see bus), but the Mt P. is interesting. - visit of Bagan temples by bicycle is very nice and tricky (temple names are not always in English...), bring a good site map and... a cap! ...
Hey Mr, are you wearing a frock?
... tourists have three options on where to stay; Old Bagan (where expensive package tours stay in horrid modern state owned hotels); New Bagan (where nobody really stays); and Nyang U (where we stayed) which is about 5 km bike ride from the main temples but ...
Looked like Shangrila but it was Mt Popa
... opened his doors 5 months ago, trained in England. He offers a good range of foods, including Thai, Chinese, Myanmar, and vegetarian meals, as well as some western standards like spaghetti, hamburger (good, according to Arthur) and ...
BALLOONS OVER BAGAN
... generally new experiences for them. While in Bangkok, Linda bought a sack of small candy canes to give out to children in Myanmar. It was a great idea. As we walked through the temporary camps of these villagers, Linda would approach a family or group of ...
A smile that lasts
The people of Myanmar seem to be quite friendly. But most impressive, in comparison to other tourist destinations across Southeast Asia, is that many times the street sellers that keep chasing you around the tourist destinations remain friendly and smiley ...
I love temples - and Myanmar
... these amazing buildings! In the inbetween bits of all this temple visiting i was befriended by my amazing hostel staff who taught me loads of Myanmar phrases and words to help me with the rest of my trip. So much so that i can now count! Oh yes, not ...
Don't let the sun go down on me
... thing. I get a couple of hours sleep and spend the entire day touring around the monuments. Bagan is one of the many former capitals of Myanmar. There are more than one thousand temples, shrines, pagodas and other religious venues here. The ...
tina
20.12.04., Peking ...ich haenge mal ne mail von Tina rein...die beschreibt Burma auch sehr nett Out of Burma und gleich reinins lustige getuemmel von Bangkok. Da wird man doch gleich schoen mit Weihnachtsmusik und Weihnachtsmann am Flughafen begruesst. ...
The Temples of Bagan
... with the Shwezigon Paya from the 11th Century. This stupa's graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas in Myanmar. So holy is this place that a monk is chanting the sacred Buddhist scriptures on a loudspeaker 24-hours per day ...
Depart Bagan by RV Pandaw
The early risers had the breathtaking experience of seeing Bagan appear as the sun rose. We had climbed up to the top of a tall pagoda and watched and shot pictures as the sun illuminated the pagodas. Not to be missed. I made " lucky money" for an artist ...
The temples of Bagan
... but passionate discussion about our mutual love for the Queen and the orange order, before we said farewell and bought the book. From Bagan we boarded a bus bound for Mandalay. It should have taken 8 hours, but after 3 the bus broke down. We ended up ...