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Pictures of Travels in Myanmar, Burma: Yangoon, Mandalay, Amarapura, Popa Mount, Bagan, Inle lake, Bago, Kalaw, Phaungdawoo...
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Phaungdawoo Market-Inle Lake-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Young Palaung girls having lunch in the market.One of the most important wealth of the country is its enormous ethnic diversity,with oficially recognized 135 ethnic groups.Some of them,like Karen minority,are hardly repressed by the government.
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Shwe In Bin Kyaung Monastery-Mandalay-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: this monastery,built in 1895,is famous for its intricate teka wood-carvings.
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Mandalay Hill-Mandalay-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Mandalay Hill,230 metres in elevation,has for long been a holy mount and legend has it that the Buddha on his visit had prophesied that a great city would be founded at its foot.The hill commands a magnificent view of the city and surrounding countryside.
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U Min Thoun Ze Pagoda-Sagaing-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Above Sagaing Hill it is a centre of Myanmar Buddhist refuge and religious practice with 45 lined up Buddhas.
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U Min Thoun Ze Pagoda-Sagaing-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: En lo alto de la Colina de Sagaing hay un centro de práctica religiosa y refugio budista con 45 Budas alineados.
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Maha Muni Pagoda-Mandalay-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Revered as one of the holiest pagoda in Mandalay,it was built by King Bodawpaya in 1784.The Buddha Image is said to have been cast in the life-time of the Gautama Buddha and that the Buddha embraced it 7 times thereby bringing it to life.
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Mingun-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Mingun is a town located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay.Its main attraction is the ruined Pahtodawgyi Pagoda,the remains of a massive unfinished Buddhist stupa.
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Pagoda inacabada de Pahtodawgyi-Mingun-Burma
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The unfinished Pahtodawgyi Pagoda was begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790.The temple was not completed,due to an astrologer's claiming that,once the temple was finished,the king would die.Had the stupa been completed,it would have been the largest in the world at 150 meters.
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