Myanmar
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Cute twins with watermelon, Bago
Cute twins with watermelon, Bago
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Shwemawdaw Pagoda, Bago
The beautiful golden Shwemawdaw Pagoda or Shwemawdaw Paya in Bago, Myanmar. Being 114 metres tall, the Shwemadaw is even higher than the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. This Mon Pagoda was originally built around the 10th century.
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Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda is a 7.3 meter high golden pagoda which has been built on top of the Golden Rock monolith, which is located in Kyaikto in Myanmar, roughly 200 kilometers from the former capital Yangon. The golden rock is a meter high granite boulder, which is covered with gold leaf by believers. The rock balances on the edge of the peak of the 1,100 meter high Kyaikto Mountain.
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Bamboo house near Bago
House on stilts, made of bamboo and leaves, in the countryside near Bago, Myanmar
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Rural village near Bago
Muddy road in a rural village just outside the city of Bago north east of Rangoon / Yangon.
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Shwedagon Paya by night, Yangon
The beautiful golden Shwedagon Paya by night, Yangon, Myanmar
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People praying at Shwedagon Pagoda
People praying in front of a temple with several Buddha statues at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Shwedagon Paya, Yangon
Shwedagon Paya, Yangon. The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar. The beautiful and impressive Shwedagon Paya is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa. According to tradition the pagoda is more than 2500 old. It is located just north of Yangon Downtown.
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Sule Pagoda, Yangon, Burma
Sule Paya, or Sule Pagoda, a beautiful golden stupa located in the center of downtown Yangon.
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Myanmar / Burma
Just a message from Mandalay, Myanmar, where we are now 9 days. It is really great, a “Golden land”. We thought that referred to the many gold of the pagodas, but it turns out to be more about the hearts of the people. The city centers are already getting a bit western (Coca Cola, email, Britney Spears, Westlife and our own Venga Boys have already made their way here), but that is probably more due to the influence of TV and Chinese than tourism , because except at the hotspots you hardly see them here. Whenever you get out of the city centers, it seems like you go one or…