Thursday, 4 February 2010

bagan temples and pagodas

There is also a daily flight by Air Mandalay from Yangon to Bagan and the flight is approximately 2 hours. Bagan is known as the city of temples, pagodas and stupas – more than 4000 of them all scattered in a vast land – to as...

Old Bagan Temples
Old Bagan Temples

Cart tour in Bagan temples...,
Cart tour in Bagan temples...,

Bagan Thatbyinnyu Temple Bagan
Bagan Thatbyinnyu Temple Bagan

Bagan Temples and Pagodas
Bagan Temples and Pagodas

Bagan Temples and Pagodas - Myanmar 2.0
Bagan Temples and Pagodas - Myanmar 2.0

Ancient Bagan was the center
Ancient Bagan was the center

Atop a large stone platform above some ruins, Bagan gracefully unraveled its glory – a 360-degree expanse of over 4400 temples peppered across a dusty plain flanked by the mighty Ayeyarwaddy River.... impressive structures were Thatbyinnyu Temple (the tallest), Dhammayangyi Temple (the largest, and because of its pyramidical shape, looks like a Mayan temple), Sulamani Temple, Ananda Temple, Mahabodhi Temple (modeled after the original in India), and Bupaya Pagoda.
Temples of Bagan: Myanmar's stupa-fying heritage « Dispatch ...

Today, there are over 2000 temples and pagodas in Bagan; Bagan was the capital of the Burmese Empire from 1044 to 1287, during this time they constructed over 10000 religious monuments; The culture of Bagan was dominated by religion...
bagan temples and pagodas

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