Shwedagon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-a60tRI6fxtOZF2IDKTqAQBAcPGcO1nQM_Nlb5hNG1ztToo4WoTHTtD0wo60N3pCU65SFrFXRlzHvUawpnd2aLRxFbnMx5k9qGRK750ix2XRDdqLREyPHO7tkoHqW8X7l2bk9ibYF5T0/s1600/Shwedagon_1_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-a60tRI6fxtOZF2IDKTqAQBAcPGcO1nQM_Nlb5hNG1ztToo4WoTHTtD0wo60N3pCU65SFrFXRlzHvUawpnd2aLRxFbnMx5k9qGRK750ix2XRDdqLREyPHO7tkoHqW8X7l2bk9ibYF5T0/s640/Shwedagon_1_tourism.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><b>Shwedagon </b>or also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a stupa or pagoda as high as 98 meters (321.5 feet) gold-plated and is located in the western part of Lake Kandawgyi, in Singuttara hills, and dominates the views of the city of Yangon, Myanmar. The structure is all made ​​of gold and Buddhists use their savings to buy gold leaf, which they attach to the walls of the temple. Buddhist Stupa is the most sacred for the people of Burma because it stores the relics of previous Buddhas, namely stick Kakusandha, Konagamana water filter, a piece of robe Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JKu103Py2dnUVAB9l-JzNBEl4U6T4zjetBkvvWvUwYa8E3rZZZMJXCOa4GZVeUKH65TDN55zv47_jGqeW00IhuR0EBrdcDbrOenWaXfaWcmyojcVF5VVlDihWfFullTd4-9darrGURM/s1600/Shwedagon_2_tourism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JKu103Py2dnUVAB9l-JzNBEl4U6T4zjetBkvvWvUwYa8E3rZZZMJXCOa4GZVeUKH65TDN55zv47_jGqeW00IhuR0EBrdcDbrOenWaXfaWcmyojcVF5VVlDihWfFullTd4-9darrGURM/s640/Shwedagon_2_tourism.jpg" width="545" /></a></div>And design of the pagoda is, there are four entrances to the Paya that lead up the steps to the platform on Singuttara Hill. Eastern and southern approaches have vendors that sell books, good luck charms, Buddha statues, candles, gold leaf, incense, prayer flags, streamers, miniature umbrellas and flowers. A pair of giant leogryphs called chinthe guards the entrance and the image in the temple at the top of the stairs from the south is that the second Buddha, Konagamana. Base or pedestal stupas made ​​of brick covered with gold plates. Above the base is a terrace that only monks and men can access. Next is part of the bell-shaped stupa. Above it is the turban, then almsbowl reversed, inverted and upright lotus petals, banana shoots and then the crown. Crown or umbrella that ends with 5448 diamonds and 2317 rubies.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyeQ9r9i9DuU2FDl2S2vqjLvVAZ0AQDyByA-hySklAdEZLzWjVnuvRkeRdlrL1jmkHjVClUErodTEFjV56dautqjfeBUx9cC6qh6jjWTcVC-5HOqIJYei4N9SGGqeZGvMtkYS5GBBtzjw/s1600/Shwedagon_3_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyeQ9r9i9DuU2FDl2S2vqjLvVAZ0AQDyByA-hySklAdEZLzWjVnuvRkeRdlrL1jmkHjVClUErodTEFjV56dautqjfeBUx9cC6qh6jjWTcVC-5HOqIJYei4N9SGGqeZGvMtkYS5GBBtzjw/s640/Shwedagon_3_tourism.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4XiESLgJTsAFRwsku2XLZxO73VRIcRZRGy5QRD2xeRnEC5bRF3eMEmXj-5biGWPWMrIdhEpE78wVs-GGKLJiZCxDEu3n3iafJ6vi6MwN6dq5YlqVggJXqxqQIXt4iJi-fPjG4FQrhpU/s1600/Shwedagon_4_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4XiESLgJTsAFRwsku2XLZxO73VRIcRZRGy5QRD2xeRnEC5bRF3eMEmXj-5biGWPWMrIdhEpE78wVs-GGKLJiZCxDEu3n3iafJ6vi6MwN6dq5YlqVggJXqxqQIXt4iJi-fPjG4FQrhpU/s640/Shwedagon_4_tourism.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwz-_qGpnRH4PVE59T2wvMQSqcFjX2fIhLg6aAvT7vUN7FGNjj9Z8vCm4rPEw6-wNnwfCl8P5sm4EnR_SFbNdWWTTTPBwvP-jBTtg8cu5-r77R85Jv3uFuxEYJqziKTa7c2lffM_t_oc/s1600/Shwedagon_5_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwz-_qGpnRH4PVE59T2wvMQSqcFjX2fIhLg6aAvT7vUN7FGNjj9Z8vCm4rPEw6-wNnwfCl8P5sm4EnR_SFbNdWWTTTPBwvP-jBTtg8cu5-r77R85Jv3uFuxEYJqziKTa7c2lffM_t_oc/s640/Shwedagon_5_tourism.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJEFd5QpUg1FNccZR6wAQuoF4x_JUIj1JTZ9Xw03HU2up7hvqtIkFkhGnLbIJLJjc7_6txBXObLzXFyqXghyphenhyphen8Qb2hW5N6FhMTAHwCJwxrrx39xHT3zp9olvSYjV0uPxCQG9XSUIKqfDo/s1600/Shwedagon_6_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJEFd5QpUg1FNccZR6wAQuoF4x_JUIj1JTZ9Xw03HU2up7hvqtIkFkhGnLbIJLJjc7_6txBXObLzXFyqXghyphenhyphen8Qb2hW5N6FhMTAHwCJwxrrx39xHT3zp9olvSYjV0uPxCQG9XSUIKqfDo/s640/Shwedagon_6_tourism.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pD272nagMp8HPB2sWUdghbRL7dWI2wJLl8fbtO3YnnEc-3z-l_n4hsGgImt3RI_PTtr8GEsrGb6PkrXhunDzms2BrGGdHjIniL9DvsERkzmqa3AAY_-VO8r-1BrBJxpzH7akz4ayla4/s1600/Shwedagon_7_tourism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pD272nagMp8HPB2sWUdghbRL7dWI2wJLl8fbtO3YnnEc-3z-l_n4hsGgImt3RI_PTtr8GEsrGb6PkrXhunDzms2BrGGdHjIniL9DvsERkzmqa3AAY_-VO8r-1BrBJxpzH7akz4ayla4/s640/Shwedagon_7_tourism.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYfC38fE0hwpypvR8fmqFXC1oq-0TlaKof5lCtt1p9F5DoLIn1wBJS8Se5W_9sIWM30tOhVODnWfOq-0lr3OTnGWTIhi4kddJBDd1l3Ob5RIBk6_BJfEycBo_EJMJs6vrmKi4S2kzYT5Y/s1600/Shwedagon_8_tourism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYfC38fE0hwpypvR8fmqFXC1oq-0TlaKof5lCtt1p9F5DoLIn1wBJS8Se5W_9sIWM30tOhVODnWfOq-0lr3OTnGWTIhi4kddJBDd1l3Ob5RIBk6_BJfEycBo_EJMJs6vrmKi4S2kzYT5Y/s640/Shwedagon_8_tourism.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>

Shwedagon

Shwedagon or also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a stupa or pagoda as high as 98 meters (321.5 feet) gold-plated and is located in the weste...

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Take a trip to Yangon, Myanmar

<div style="text-align: justify;">Most of the people still are uncertain about travelling to Myanmar due to political state of affairs. Myanmar has very varied population that sometime stirs an anxiety between civilizations. But don’t get it mistaken, even though tourism in Myanmar is gradually developed, but it has huge potential that yet to be discovered. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZbEE1a-ahsOrembJgOvH6Z2BUPKg3S2qf5CEuID4oLvHFCOAvao1O7QziVJSEyYXPPu3o301sWHikXLAnuVhynw8Wc_NSJt5ifJI9HqIKkn89_X-g15QW7zvob1t78bl9mjPbR8-fp59/s1600/trl_myanmar_yangon_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZbEE1a-ahsOrembJgOvH6Z2BUPKg3S2qf5CEuID4oLvHFCOAvao1O7QziVJSEyYXPPu3o301sWHikXLAnuVhynw8Wc_NSJt5ifJI9HqIKkn89_X-g15QW7zvob1t78bl9mjPbR8-fp59/s320/trl_myanmar_yangon_01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Myanmar located in South East Asia is otherwise known as Burma bordered with China, India, Thailand, Bangladesh and Laos. Myanmar travel site is centered on its main city, Yangon which also a formal capital city of Myanmar. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-TKy0RMomnQDlQzDRY0q2jtjCEJO3kdTFHmdyH6MwAmr5tG139bR-rx5Szy8Qokxo55P-m4lQvVOHNj6KGVJ3Cp8HNwX2U-3tyHwa9wAp10WAgjxijpdj470PZq493y5smxrhTQvNN3j/s1600/Old+Pagodas+and+Temples+Shwedagon+Pagoda+Yangon+Myanmar+Burma+Birma+Rangoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-TKy0RMomnQDlQzDRY0q2jtjCEJO3kdTFHmdyH6MwAmr5tG139bR-rx5Szy8Qokxo55P-m4lQvVOHNj6KGVJ3Cp8HNwX2U-3tyHwa9wAp10WAgjxijpdj470PZq493y5smxrhTQvNN3j/s320/Old+Pagodas+and+Temples+Shwedagon+Pagoda+Yangon+Myanmar+Burma+Birma+Rangoon.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As an Ethic country with royal culture, Myanmar heritage culture consists of Temples and Pagodas, and Yangon has lots of it. One of the most notable is the Shwedagon Pagoda, a 98 meter Pagoda, which was build in early 6th century, is the most sacred Buddhist Pagoda for Burmese with relics of the past 4 Buddha’s enshrined within, namely the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Konagamana, a piece of the robe of of Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama, the historical Buddha. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRY8xxVtQtdgxDMIWPvz3fYXy9x3Xg1WBoFDkpSLpENVSDm2OXXplabZcXjPcWjrmKGaZhiyvOTIuXB4RBuuMMxmmq8s2_Uk3Y5fHg6rElYNj-VbSpmi9Wwf8-mQ6PNRDOnvQvzuWGfFs/s1600/Shewdago-+Pagoda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRY8xxVtQtdgxDMIWPvz3fYXy9x3Xg1WBoFDkpSLpENVSDm2OXXplabZcXjPcWjrmKGaZhiyvOTIuXB4RBuuMMxmmq8s2_Uk3Y5fHg6rElYNj-VbSpmi9Wwf8-mQ6PNRDOnvQvzuWGfFs/s320/Shewdago-+Pagoda.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides Shewdagon Pagoda, there are also abundant other Pagodas in Yangon and Myanmar, to be precise Sule Pagoda, Botataung Pagoda, or Kaba Aye Pagoda. as Myanmar @ Burma opens itself to vacationer, many places and sites that deserted before are currently rebuilt for tourism. Pagodas alone are not the sightseeing attraction for the country many other places like Famous Temples, Allied War Memorial, Hlawga National Park, St.Mary’s Cathedral or National Museum of Myanmar, which are all located in Yangon.</div>

Take a trip to Yangon, Myanmar

Most of the people still are uncertain about travelling to Myanmar due to political state of affairs. Myanmar has very varied population tha...

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