Our travels

Bagan - an archeological site

Asia • Burma (Myanmar)

Bagan is the main tourist attraction in Myanmar. Until today over 2000 out of 13000 pagodas and temples remain well preserved.

We have been visiting over a dozen of them cruising Bagan on bikes which was a challenge for itself on deep sand dirt roads.

In the evening tourists take any transportation mean possible to get to a chosen high-rising pagoda to watch a spectacular sunset.

Bagan which is situatated close to Nyaung OO is a rural province where you can easily observe that most of the local people live of tourism. Absolutely everybody works hard. Even a few years old children.

    • Our hotel in Bagan
    • Setting off in pagoda and temple search
    • A means of transport
    • To the market
    • Past a filling station for motorbikes
    • There are pagodas!
    • Many pagodas!
    • We've been here!
    • Choosing a painting from a vendor
    • We have chosen these two
    • We are going through the map of the area
    • We are looking for this particular pabgoda
    • From this one we are going to watch the sunset
    • Tourists are flocking to the pagoda
    • Everyone as one can
    • You need to climb up
    • Then you can watch
    • and watch
    • You can watch from a baloon
    • or form a neighbouring pagoda
    • Skyline full of pagodas
    • Plenty of temples as well
    • Plenty of watchers
    • A river in the background
    • A variety of watchers
    • During the sunset
    • Before the sunset
    • Children want to sell their drawings
    • Testing their skills
    • Not everybody can sell
    • A caipirinha after the sunset
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