Bagan, Myanmar – must see (one month ago)

Mar 30, 2013   //   by Eva   //   Blog, Myanmar-Burma  //  Comments Off on Bagan, Myanmar – must see (one month ago)

Bagan is one of the world’s gems.

Bagan is situated on a red earth, scrubby, plain. Over the course of 250 years (from 1044 to 1287), Bagan’s rulers and their wealthy residents showed it off by building over 10,000 religious monuments in an area of 104 square kilometres (40 sq mi).  (about 1000 stupas (towers containing Buddhist relics also called pagodas). Today, about 4,000 remain.

In twenty years Bagan will be a must visit place on any itinerary to Asia. Today it is a place of sand roads, run down hotels and home based restaurants.

It cost $3 to rent a bike for a day which coming after Vietnam’s $1 per day felt like a rip-off. Nevertheless, feeling strong-armed, we took the bikes out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following are a few views from Shwe-san-daw Paya

Shwesandaw Paya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone wanted Daniela in their photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peaceful place

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View from our hotel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More views

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More views

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stopped by the cows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On we went

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hti-lo-Min-lo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heading for the village. Man against beast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Villages have no running water and no sewage. This village has a well sponsored by the Japanese government which pumps water into a trough every day at 5pm. All the village children then carry water in very heavy buckets to their homes.

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