Title: Archaeological Destination
1Archaeological DestinationBagan, Myanmar
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2Explore 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.
3Shwezigon 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.
4Ananda 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.
5Irrawaddy 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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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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