Myanmar is one of the most exotic corners of the world. A really impressive space, which waits for you in Burma. Since we come to Mandalay, we can realize that we are in another world. A different universe, another form of life, other customs …
Temples and monasteries appear before our eyes in story we put the feet in this place. Kuthodaw Paya, which has been called also The biggest book of the world, is formed by 792 marble flagstones, which form 15 books of the Triptaka, a code Buddhist, gives us idea of the important thing that is here everything what has to do with the spirituality.
About Mandalay you can find ancient ciudsades who still today speak to us about the rich and flourishing past of this area of Burma: Ava, Amarapura, Sagaing and Mingún are the most important.
From the river Ayeryarwadi we can come in ship up to Bagán, a mythical fluvial step that served as inspiration to writers of the most out-standing thing. For Neruda, for example, we are before the river that has the name more hemrono of the world. A river that ends in the Andamán sea, leaving to his step impressive sceneries that you cannot get lost.
Once we come to Bagán, we can say that we are before one of the most impressive architectural sets of the whole world. And the fact is that from 1044, during more than two centuries, in this area the princes and the plebeian ones, in his longing for honoring Buddha, constructed up to 4400 temples in a surface of 40 square kilometers. The best way of knowing this area is to do it on foot, in car of horses or in bike.
In the dozens of temples that you will be able to visit, there are giant paintings, impressive budas, … Ananda, Gawdawpalin, Mimalaung … is some of the most important monasteries, which have been considered to be a Patrimony of the Humanity. At the time of the putting sun, it can rise to some of them, to contemplate a few really impressive conference.
From here, other one of the most advisable visits is Kalow, where it is possible to visit the lake Inle, in addition to small villages in which they inhabit ethnic groups of the area, like palaung and pa - or; in addition to other primitive communities. The intha live in the area of something Inle, a really impressive place, with a few most beautiful sceneries.
But if there is a place that you cannot allow visiting it is the pagoda of Schwedagon, which has had to be restored often to deterremotos cause and fires. Around him there are many buildings of minor size, and one believes that in his interior he has kept some hairs of Buddha. The budiatas of Myanmar consider it to be the most sacred place of the country, to whom they all hope to come at least, once in the life.
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