Bagan Pictures and Videos
tell the story in a higher dimension for more Bagan photos check here. The monuments are overwhelming, nobody has ever seen such sceneries and will never. Somehow its even more interesting than the pyramids of Egypt and temple of the Mayas.
It tells all about the odd behavior of the old and new colonialist powers, English and US which advised UNESCO not to grant the World Heritage status when the government of the country applied to the obvious vassals of them in Geneva.
The pictures show pagodas and temples
built over a timeframe of more than 1000 years. About 700 years ago there are some indications that around 6000 monuments, big and small were standing on the area in central Myanmar also called dry zone. Normal decay and monsoon floods washed away plenty of them. |
