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This picture shows Shwezigon Paya is one of the major temples of Bagan. It was taken on a travel to Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), Asia. It is one of the 6421 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Bagan. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world!

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Bagan, majestic site of Myanmar, where you can make your pick of thousands of old temples dotting the landscape as far as the eye can see.
When the light around me started chasing away the darkness of the Burmese night, I was standing on the top of Shwesandaw Paya. The light of dawn got hints of orange, and I knew the sun was on its way. Slowly, the veil on the landscape that the night had laid over it, was lifted, and I saw spires of temples appearing all around me. All pointing up, some high, higher even than where I was standing, some much lower. As I waited, yet more elegant shadows appeared further away, and it left me breathless. Pinnacles were floating in the rust-coloured air around me, on a bed of fog and dust.
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