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A country so close and yet so unknown to us. The people of Myanmar are the star attraction of this experience. Stay on a Lake at 2000 ft, sail the Irawatti River at sunset or just have a conversation with a local which always makes you smile. Come to Myanmar to enjoy the simplicities of Life and travel back in time. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Archaeological Destination


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Archaeological DestinationBagan, Myanmar
Anubhav Vacations
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Explore Bagan
  • Bagan was known as Pagan, is an ancient city
    located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. 
  • The city has awe-inspiring symbols of Buddhist
    devotion.
  • Bagan is considered to be the most ancient city
    that still exists.
  • City has over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas,
    and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan
    plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200
    temples and pagodas still survive to the present
    day.
  • Bagan is one of Asia's most popular
    archaeological destination. 
  • While on Myanmar travel and tours, get ready to
    be dazzled by the Shwedagon Paya ornamented with
    massive 27 metric tons of gold and diamond,
    believed to preserve eight hairs of Lord Buddha.

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Shwezigon Pagoda 
  • Shwezigon Pagoda is a Buddhist temple located
    in Nyaung-U, a town near Bagan in Myanmar.
  • It consists of a circular gold-leaf-gilded stupa
    surrounded by smaller temples and shrines.
  • Construction of the Shwezigon Pagoda began during
    the reign of King Anawrahta (r. 104477), who was
    the founder of the Pagan Dynasty, in 10591060
    and was completed in 1102 AD, during the reign of
    his son King Kyansittha
  • This pagoda, a Buddhist religious place, is
    believed to enshrine a bone and tooth of Gautama
    Buddha.
  • The pagoda is in the form of a cone formed by
    five square terraces with a central solid core.
  • There are footprints below the four standing
    Buddha statues here. Jataka legends are depicted
    on glazed terra-cotta tiles set into three
    rectangular terraces.

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Ananda Pagoda
  • Located in Bagan, Myanmar.
  • It is build in 1105 AD during the reign of King
    Kyanzittha of the Pagan Dynasty.
  • It is one of four surviving temples in Bagan.
  • The temple layout is in a cruciform with several
    terraces leading to a small pagoda at the top
    covered by an umbrella known as hti, which is the
    name of the umbrella or top ornament found in
    almost all pagodas in Myanmar.
  • The temple has close similarity to the
    Pathothamya temple of the 10th11th century, and
    is also known as veritable museum of stones.
  • Myanmar travel will take you through the
    sparkling waters of Inle Lake region bobbled with
    marshes and floating gardens, where hoisted
    houses rise above the water and lone fishermen
    drift their boat immersed in their own solitude
    untouched and uncorrupted by the allure of
    modernity.

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Irrawaddy River
  • Irrawaddy River is a river that flows from north
    to south through Myanmar.
  • It is the country's largest river and most
    important commercial waterway.
  • Originating from the confluence of
    the N'mai and Mali rivers, it flows relatively
    straight North-South before emptying through the
    Irrawaddy Delta into the Andaman Sea.
  • Drainage basin of about 404,200 square kilometres
    (156,100 sq mi) covers a large part of Burma.
  • After Rudyard Kiplings poem, it is sometimes
    referred to as The Road to Mandalay.

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Check out more destination
_at_Anubhav Vacations
Look with wonder at the surrounding forested
hills, accepted and embraced the native as part
of their own progeny. If you can love its watery
of life we can be awe-inspiring. Trekking
through the pine forest sprawling across the Shan
hills reach to the native village take a look at
their lives, laugh with them, taste their native
food and get intrigued by their extreme
joviality.

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