Bagan
Ancient site
A plain in Myanmar with more than two thousand temples, as far as you can see.
On a plain beside the Irrawaddy river in Myanmar stand more than 2,000 temples and pagodas of brick. From a high spot you see their spires rising out of the trees in every direction.
Bagan was the capital of a kingdom from the ninth to the thirteenth century. Its kings and their people built more than 10,000 religious buildings here, most of them in about 250 years.
- temples still standing
- 2,000+
- were once built
- 10,000+
- World Heritage since
- 2019
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The area lies in an earthquake zone. A quake in 2016 damaged hundreds of temples.
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Inside many temples sit large statues of the Buddha, and some walls still carry paintings eight hundred years old.
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At sunrise hot-air balloons drift over the plain.
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