Morning balloon rides are very popular in Bagan, site of over 2500 Buddhist temples. Seeing this array of religious sites at sunrise from a balloon is a highlight to be checked off your bucket list.
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Bagan Temples
Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar . From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar.
During the kingdom’s height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
Temples everywhere you look. And then some…
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