Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, May 24, 2015: Floating Over Bagan’s 4,000 Temples, Myanmar
May 24, 2015
A bird’s view of the 4.000 temples of Bagan, from a Hot Air Balloon, left us thunderstruck! Yes, seeing Bagan from that perspective was definitely
A bird’s view of the 4.000 temples of Bagan, from a Hot Air Balloon, left us thunderstruck! Yes, seeing Bagan from that perspective was definitely
If I needed another reason to believe Burma is on the edge of emerging from a bygone era, this passing oxcart provided the evidence, as I stepped from a temple onto the side of the road.
A friend and I walked across New Bagan in the late afternoon, destination the Green Elephant Restaurant, where the main road crosses the highway and dead-ends at the bluff overlooking the Irrawaddy.
Bagan is not a single place but a string of settlements on a bend of the Irrawaddy River with a plain stretching eastward for many miles. It’s on the western edge of the tourist track, an oval-shaped circuit of the country with Yangon…
A bird’s view of the 4.000 temples of Bagan, from a Hot Air Balloon, left us thunderstruck! Yes, seeing Bagan
If I needed another reason to believe Burma is on the edge of emerging from a bygone era, this passing oxcart provided the evidence, as I stepped from a temple onto the side of the road.
A friend and I walked across New Bagan in the late afternoon, destination the Green Elephant Restaurant, where the main road crosses the highway and dead-ends at the bluff overlooking the Irrawaddy.
Bagan is not a single place but a string of settlements on a bend of the Irrawaddy River with a plain stretching eastward for many miles. It’s on the western edge of the tourist track, an oval-shaped circuit of the country with Yangon…