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Jade Market
This heaving grid of cramped walkways is a shoulder-to-shoulder mass of jade traders. You don’t need to pay the $1 entry (not always enforced) to observe interesting scenes of craftsmen cutting and polishing jade pieces just outside along the market’s eastern flank (87th St). Or re
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Gold
Those 1in-square gold-leaf sheets that worshippers piously place on sacred Buddha images are laboriously hand-pounded in dozens of specialist workshops in this two-block area. Two main street souvenir-shop showrooms, King Galon and Golden Rose , have English-speaking staff wholl pa
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Ashe (East) & Anauk (West) Petleik Paya
Just inland to the northeast from Lawkananda Paya are the excavated remains of these twin 11th-century paya. Found in 1905, the lower parts of the pagodas are ho-hum from the outside but feature hundreds of terracotta Jataka lining the vaulted corridors (particularly impressive in
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Maing Thauk
Half of the village of Maing Thauk is set on dry land, while the other half sits on stilts over the water, linked to the shore by a 450yd wooden bridge. You can continue walking uphill to a peaceful forest monastery for good views over the lake.Maing Thauk is accessible by boat and
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Somingyi Kyaung
Named after the woman who supposedly sponsored its construction, this typical late-Bagan brick monastery (about 650 feet southwest of Nagayon) is thought to have been built in 1204. A zedi to the north and gu to the south are also ascribed to Somingyi. Many brick monasteries in Bag
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Shwe Sar Umbrella Workshop
Sun shades are made in workshops scattered across the northern part of the city, particularly around the Twenty-Eight Paya, off Mahabandoola Rd. It’s fun to wander the area, sticking your head into a workshop here and there to see how they’re made. They’re cheap, and the saffron-co
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Pahtodawgyi
This vast bell-shaped pagoda, erected by King Bagyidaw in 1820, is the tallest structure for miles around (185ft). Its still slightly damaged from the 2012 earthquake, but once repairs are complete men (only!) should once again be allowed to climb half-way to the upper terrace to a
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Bagan Golden Palace
Following similar government-mandated palace reconstruction jobs in Bago, Mandalay and Shwebo, this towering concrete-and-steel-reinforced edifice was opened to much fanfare in 2008. Built opposite the excavated site of the actual palace just in from the Tharabar Gate, it’s unlikel
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Mingun Bell
In 1808 Bodawpaya continued his biggest-is-best obsession by commissioning a bronze bell weighing 55,555 viss (90 tonnes). It’s 13ft high and over 16ft across at the lip and was the worlds biggest ringable bell for many decades, albeit now surpassed by the giant bell of Pingdingsha
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Cultural Museum
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Yathaypyan Cave
Just over a mile away from Kawgun Cave and built by the same exiled king, is the Yathaypyan Cave, which is a proper cave rather than a cavern and contains several pagodas as well as a few more clay wall carvings. If you’re there during the dry season (approximately November to Apri
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Thiri Mingalarpon Kyaung
Dating back to 1912, this monastery formerly served as palace of Kayah sao pha, sky lords, until 1959. After the last sao pha passed away in 1987, his children donated the then-decaying structure to a local Buddhist organisation. Had they not done this, the government, at that time
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Leimyethna Pahto
Built in 1222, this east-facing, whitewashed temple near Minnanthu village (a couple of klicks east of Dhammayazika on the north side of the road) stands on a raised platform and has interior walls decorated with well-preserved frescoes. It is topped by a gilded Indian-style spire
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View Point
Strand Rd leads about 1.5 miles south to a location called the View Point, where you can watch the sun set over Sittwe Beach , a broad brown strip of sand, and the Bay of Bengal. It was being redeveloped at the time of writing, so there will likely be a restaurant or two here by th
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Thambula Pahto
This square temple, surrounded by crumbling walls just north of Payathonzu, is decorated with faded Jataka frescoes and was built in 1255 by Thambula, the wife of King Uzana. It’s often locked, but go to the (shaded at midday) doors and peek through the gate to see into wall and ce
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Thaung Thut
At the southern end of the lake, the village of Thaung Thut, about 1½ hours from Nyaungshwe, holds an important tribal market every five days. A long walkway leads uphill from the village to a complex of whitewashed Shan stupas .Further south, the village of Kyauk Taing is devoted
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Atumashi Kyaungdawgyi
This unusually shaped temple is a series of diminishing stupa-dotted terraces over an arched base decorated with peacock motifs. When built in 1857, it housed a famous Buddha image clothed in royal silk clothing and with a huge diamond set on its forehead. However, the image was st
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Nanmyin
All that remains of King Bagyidaw’s palace complex is this 90ft ‘leaning tower of Inwa’, shattered but patched up and still standing after the 1838 earthquake. The tower is neither beautiful nor especially high, but wide views from the top are great for getting your bearings amid t
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Payagyi
The main Buddhist monastery in town, colloquially referred to as Payagyi (Big Pagoda), is an expansive glittering, Disneyland-like compound centred around Shwe Taung Za Paya , an immense gilded stupa.A sculpture of Dharani, the earth goddess, standing in the corner of one of the co
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Thaketa Crocodile Farm
Off the main road from Yangon to Thanlyin, at the end of a bumpy road leading into the Thaketa Industrial Estate, is this farm that breeds crocodiles for their leather. Some of the saltwater crocs are monsters and watching their fanged mouths snap around tossed pieces of fish will
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