Bagan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After getting high 45 deg in Mandalay we finally reached the desert!! so hooooot... The way to visit the hundreds of payas (some from 12th century) was to wake up at 5am, take a bike and visit til 9am, take a breakfast, a nap, wake up for internet and food, nap again, go to the pool of local hotel, then on the bike again from 5 to 8pm. They say ...

Ah.....we finally made it to Bagan. And the first thing I noticed was it was just as hot and dusty here as it was in Pakokku. Damn! We mostly puttered about on our arrival day as it was really hot and we hadn't slept that much the night before. We were feeling pretty lucky though as the electricity worked for most of the day which meant we had a...

Bagan is home to the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world - many dating to the 11th and 12th centuries. Today, there are over 2000 of them but of course there was more in the places heyday. The plain the temples are on is shared by the Burmese people going about their everyday lives, in the shadows of some pre...

I can honestly say that there is nothing more horrific than listening to "Unchained Melody" played on a traditional Burmese stringed instrument. Over dinner at my hotel, they provided various forms of local entertainment, including the afore-mentioned blackboard fingernail screacher. I had decide to forego another horsecart into town for dinner,...

reet, bagan next, 9 hours west from mandalay on a local bus with a load of stink ***** locals. thankfully i was sat next to an ozzy lass who was quite cool to talk to but to be honest first impressions was she was a bit of a mental. she started tellin me about this book she wrote wen she was on a buddhist retreat about a mouse from the future th...

With a really nice cold (yes! I got ill! first time 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 south east asia region (the other one is Angko...

We had heard good things about this place Bagan. So we went there. After a really long boat ride, we were greeted at the docks by lots of really anxious Tri-Shaw drivers. These guys would not take "no" for answer. After 16 hours of sitting on my ass, I wanted a bit of exercise and tried my best to walk to a hotel. Eventually, the drivers came do...

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From Mandalay I headed to the plain of temples at Bagan, one of the most amazing things I have seen in my life & the place I have been amazed by most on the trip so far. I spent four days there watching sunrises & sunsets from various vantage points. Watching the dew rise from the ground as mist surrounding the plain of 1000 year old temples as ...