Bagan
- Myanmar’s answer to Angkor Wat, Bagan, on the banks of the Ayeyarwady River, is home to the largest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas and stupas in the world.
- Bagan was the capital of the First Burmese Empire from the 9th to the 13th centuries.
- The site that Marco Polo once described as the “gilded city” was home to around 13,000 Buddhist temples in its 11th-century heyday.
- Thousands remain, including the famous Ananda temple with its sparkling gold spires.
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