Private City Day Tour of Bagan
Old Bagan, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
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Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 9 hours 30 minutes
Take a private full day guided tour to the home of over 2000 pagodas and temples stretched across this impressive landscape, the historic city of Bagan. Guided by a local professional guide you will experience this amazing must see city on any trip to Myanmar. Watch each temple come alive as you are guided to each location and expertly informed about it’s cultural, religious and historical significance.
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Take a private full day guided tour to the home of over 2000 pagodas and temples stretched across this impressive landscape, the historic city of Bagan. Guided by a local professional guide you will experience this amazing must see city on any trip to Myanmar. Watch each temple come alive as you are guided to each location and expertly informed about it’s cultural, religious and historical significance.The day starts with a pick up from your centrally located hotel in Bagan, a spectacular landscape stretching away from the Ayeyarwaddy River, dotted with thousands of 800-year old temple ruins. Although human habitation at Bagan dates back almost to the beginning of the Christian era, Bagan only entered its golden period with the conquest of Thaton in 1057 AD.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a must visit on any trip to Myanmar and on this experience you will be led by our professional guide to some of this highlights. Visit the Schwezigon Pagoda, the stupa's graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. Follow on to Gubyaukhyi Temple at Wetkyi-Inn, originally built in the early 13th Century and repaired in 1468. Be amazed by the colorful paintings depicting the previous life of Buddha and the distinguished architecture making this temple an interesting site for a visit.
The Ananda Pahto is one of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. Thought to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha, this perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period.
Your guide will continue with your journey around Bagan to explore numerous temples and sights including a lacquerware workshop in one of the local villages around Bagan. As the sun sets you have the perfect photo opportunity to witness the brilliance of Bagan and historic landmarks.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a must visit on any trip to Myanmar and on this experience you will be led by our professional guide to some of this highlights. Visit the Schwezigon Pagoda, the stupa's graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. Follow on to Gubyaukhyi Temple at Wetkyi-Inn, originally built in the early 13th Century and repaired in 1468. Be amazed by the colorful paintings depicting the previous life of Buddha and the distinguished architecture making this temple an interesting site for a visit.
The Ananda Pahto is one of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. Thought to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha, this perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period.
Your guide will continue with your journey around Bagan to explore numerous temples and sights including a lacquerware workshop in one of the local villages around Bagan. As the sun sets you have the perfect photo opportunity to witness the brilliance of Bagan and historic landmarks.
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