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 Pictures of Travels in Myanmar, Burma: Yangoon, Mandalay, Amarapura, Popa Mount, Bagan, Inle lake, Bago, Kalaw, Phaungdawoo...

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	Phaungdawoo Market-Inle Lake-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Young Palaung girls having lunch in the market.One of the most important wealth of the country is its enormous ethnic diversity,with oficially recognized 135 ethnic groups.Some of them,like Karen minority,are hardly repressed by the government.
	Shwe In Bin Kyaung Monastery-Mandalay-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: this monastery,built in 1895,is famous for its intricate teka wood-carvings.
	Mandalay Hill-Mandalay-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The Mandalay Hill,230 metres in elevation,has for long been a holy mount and legend has it that the Buddha on his visit had prophesied that a great city would be founded at its foot.The hill commands a magnificent view of the city and surrounding countryside.
	U Min Thoun Ze Pagoda-Sagaing-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Above Sagaing Hill it is a centre of Myanmar Buddhist refuge and religious practice with 45 lined up Buddhas.
	U Min Thoun Ze Pagoda-Sagaing-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Above Sagaing Hill it is a centre of Myanmar Buddhist refuge and religious practice with 45 lined up Buddhas.
	Maha Muni Pagoda-Mandalay-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Revered as one of the holiest pagoda in Mandalay,it was built by King Bodawpaya in 1784.The Buddha Image is said to have been cast in the life-time of the Gautama Buddha and that the Buddha embraced it 7 times thereby bringing it to life.
	Mingun-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Mingun is a town located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay.Its main attraction is the ruined Pahtodawgyi Pagoda,the remains of a massive unfinished Buddhist stupa.
	Pagoda inacabada de Pahtodawgyi-Mingun-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The unfinished Pahtodawgyi Pagoda was begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790.The temple was not completed,due to an astrologer's claiming that,once the temple was finished,the king would die.Had the stupa been completed,it would have been the largest in the world at 150 meters.
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