Page 203 - The Rough Guide to Myanmar (Burma)

TAUNG KALAT MOUNT POPA

Highlights
1 Shwezigon Pagoda One of the oldest, 5 Hot-air balloon ride Take a ride in a hot-air
grandest and most revered of all Bagan’s balloon, and enjoy a champagne breakfast as
temples, still busy with worshippers after almost the morning sun catches Bagan’s golden
a thousand years. See p.203 temples. See p.228
2 Ananda Paya An enormous mountain of 6 Taung Kalat and Mount Popa A colourful
stone, embellished with terraces, stairways and cluster of shrines and temples, perched
stupas, and topped with a spire. See p.209 dramatically atop an ancient volcanic outcrop
and celebrating the wonderful world of the nat
3 Sunset over Bagan Climb to the top of one
of Bagan’s ancient monuments, and watch the spirits. See p.228
sunset over the innumerable temples dotting 7 Salay Expect to see tumbledown temples
the plains below. See p.216 and fading colonial architecture in off-the-
beaten-track Salay. See p.231
4 Sulamani Paya A red-brick jewel of a temple
– perhaps the most perfect of all Bagan’s myriad
monuments. See p.217

HIGHLIGHTS ARE MARKED ON THE MAPS ON P.202 & PP.204205