The Pagoda & Temple City mean show time.
Bagan Holiday somehow an ancient "Disneyland" for culture oriented people and visitors really get something for his or her money in the dry zone center of the country just beside the mighty Irrawaddy.
Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.
The best viewing platforms are the hills in the back and from there distinctive points on the access roads are visible to give the pagodas and temples a certain arrangement. Coming from the Southeast show the bigger buildings on both side of the street the distances between them get shorter one proceeds and reached a minimum directly at the city walls.
If you cant or don't want to travel to this outer places the best is climb up the Shwesandaw Pagoda > about an hour before sunset and enjoy it. Be aware that there are hundreds of other tourists know the same means, first come best view.
All this became a very impressive free composition of a certain geometric harmony and therein lays one of the reasons for this great aesthetic effect.
Also in the system of the individual ensembles show that the people of the past had a bigger picture in mind since the mighty stupas > and temples > were the centers bigger ensembles consisting of numerous different buildings of different time, character and style within walls.
At the city gates were huge Chinthe Statues symbolizing the guards.
They were built from brick and painted. The highly stylized sculptures had an impressive size and appearance.
Together with the mighty Irrawaddy
The Irrawaddy at Bagan >
Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most famous in the country. Every day pilgrim come from everywhere in the country and other countries to pay respect or are just curious what's up here and get a real surprise since this is huge, read more.
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