Within thirty minutes of our early morning Asian Wings flight arrival from Yangon, we were on our way to visit the first of the day's major itinerary highlights. Bagan overwhelms the visitor with the richness of its attractions, all of which are religious temples, pagodas, stupas, monasteries or nunneries, mostly associated with Buddhism with an occasional Hindu influence worked in along the way.
Yet each of the spots we stopped to see over the course of the day appeared to offer something special:
Our first temple provided incredible scenic views from its raised platforms, showcasing distant pagodas and other structures beautifully lit by the early morning sun.
The second stop, a pagoda considered one of the nation's most important and housing one of the historical Buddha's teeth, provided a prototypical example of this vital religious structure.
Our third stop took us into a temple full of spectacular Buddhist images and wall art, the latter the subject of ongoing restoration ad research.
Later in the afternoon we visited another temple, one of Bagan's oldest, to view an interior full of even more spectacular murals; ...
No comments:
Post a Comment