Bagan
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- Best time to go
- November–March
- Budget
- $
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Thousands of temples, stupas and monasteries scatter across a bend of the Ayeyarwady River — the skyline of Bagan, capital of a regional empire at its height in the 11th to 13th centuries. Frescoes and sculptures survive inside many of the monuments, and the plain remains a living place of Buddhist pilgrimage. After decades of anticipation, UNESCO inscribed Bagan's seven-part sacred landscape in 2019; sunrise balloon flights show its scale best.
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