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Beautiful hotel grounds amidst the temples Pool Garden and riverside restaurant sunset at Bagan Hotel River View

Bagan Hotel

Old Bagan, Nyaung Oo District Bagan, Myanmar

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Amazing Bagan

A travel blog entry by pfistema

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... was the more comfortable way to travel (but slower and more expensive) and the most exquisite of all: the hot air balloon. Balloons over Bagan is a British run company in Bagan since 12 years and is running daily balloon flights at sunrise. The whole package is on the expensive side, but very well organised and done, including a bit posh champagne after the landing (that is at about 8 am...) Even with a hefty price ...

Lots and Lots of Pogodas

A travel blog entry by ed.herweynen

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... to explore around the pogodas, coming across villiages, festivals and a glimpse of how the local live rather than what they currently worship.

In the afternoon we visited a lacquer-ware factory where we saw the very long process to produce lacquer-ware. Basically bamboo is striped and woven in the shape desired, then it is a process of adding resin from a local tree and at one point bull dun is added. After each stage it needs to be placed in the cellar. ...

Ancient Temples by the Irrawaddy

A travel blog entry by jandkross

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... lawn overlooking the river to watch the sunset with a cocktail. We found another very local restaurant on Wednesday night. No English menu and very attentive staff who hovered over us as we ate and kept checking that the food was alright. It wasn’t very exciting to be honest.

We had another early start on Thursday morning and so after a short spell of battling with the local internet service we retired to our tranquil riverside room.

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Temple heaven

A travel blog entry by gypsyfeet

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... in time to go straight from the airport to one of the larger temples possible to walk up and take in the panoramic view of the area. The misty magic was lingering in the air as we took it in and burned off quickly as the sun started to build momentum around 8 o'clock. All I can say its it's something I'll keep with me all my life. There were lots of wows, ooh and ahhs from the whole group so we all felt the same. After a while up there everybody got quite silent and the ...

The temples of Bagan

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... to see the rides. It’s expensive, by comparison with other means, but it’s novel and would get us shown all the major sites, as there is no map that clearly shows where all the sites are actually located.

During the 1970s, a village of people had grown up in the middle of a walled area in Old Bagan, but the government forcibly removed them just before the 1990 elections and put them in a so-called peanut field, which has now been developed ...

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