Some time in Bagan
Im spending some time in Bagan...its like anchor watt I heard...
Getting help from some french people to negotiate...among the locals...
"wifi free"...means "no wifi"...
This is that part of Myanmar that reminds me of laos...(near a restaurant between Mandalay and Bagan)...
And the roads...usually a small stripe of asfalt...if you meet another car, u drive aside...
This is our bus...
In the restaurant they also had some snacks...
And some house...however the eating area was more like a roof without walls...
Finally arrived, as usual thebus drops you outside...so that u need to take taxi...(nothing can evenbe 100% here)...
Some girl...most people here has smartphone...atleast most people I seen...
Some french people...who negotiated the price to Bagan...
As usual...foreingers needs to pay...(the vietmanese side of myanmar)...
My germanfriend has a norweigan mom..he spoke norweigan...pretty cool...
After some while..we rented vikes and took off to see Bagan...
Temple after temple
And Buddha...
Golden ones...made of wook or iron...
Many locas come here to pray...the difference betweenhere and anchor what is that thisnever was hidden...so nature never really had any impact of this place...instead the locals come here to pray...
Some interesting patterns on the wall...
Ofcourse, as most religions...money is involved...the more you pay the the better your life might be...
More buddhas...
Most houses were red coloured...
"Come and buy, very cheap"...
Everywhere, one could see these temples...
This one looked different...
10 years ago you could climb many of the temples..I was told...
Now, there are a few ones that you can go up on...
Like thisone...
This one, I was told is the biggest one...far away from where I am...
Omg...somce japanese sponsors...
And local visitors...
Some sovenir shops...
And Pagodas...
Locals taking pics...
And more space for money donations...
I was wearing my skirt as usual...I felt very local...
Omg...somce "smiley" betweenthe legs...
And some feet of buddha...
People were touching it..maybe itmeant luck...
Had to try too...
Another temple...
More sovenir shops...
More temples...they more or less looked the sameafter a while...
Some money collectionfrom the local munks...
A munk with an Iphone 5...
The trip continues...
They evenhad a university here...
And more Pagodas...
It was easy to get lost...we hace a map from lonely planet...and were heading to some special place...where you could climb a temple...
My friends wanted to visit this place first...
"no footwear"...
And some George Orwell books, from when he was here...
The loclas painted their face with this tree...for sun protection...
Finally foundthe temple that we could walk up on...
But it wahard to find how to get there...
"plastic bag free zone"...I like...
Some checkpoint...where they checked if you paid...(if u were a foreigner)...
Time to walk up...
Omg...a big area...
This might be why this is ranked as one of the top sites in asia, by lonely planet...
Temple after temple...miles away...
And steep up...I think some buildings were form the 12th century, and some were older...
People gathered up here to see the sunset...
Which eventually will come...
Just wait for some hours...
Many people from Japan, and vietnam...werehere...
Cameras up...
Omg...so many buses here to enjoy the sunset...
Or see the tamples in sunset light...
Also some people make money onchangeing money...this guy had a swedish 20SEK note...
My frenchfriend wanted to take picture of a temple in the moonlight...
But it was hard to find the moon...
Some temples had light...it was pretty cool...
Well, here wasthe moon anyway...
I ended they day witha a Mandalay beer...I prefer theMyanmar beer though...
Every nowand thenthe electricity was shut down...just like in Kathmandu...however there it was ona schedule...here it was accidentally...
Myday in Bagan is over...
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