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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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Transport-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Today the country lacks adequate infrastructure.Railroads are old and rudimentary,with few repairs since their construction in the late nineteenth century.Highways are normally unpaved, except in the major cities.
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Shwedagon Pagoda-Yangon-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The Shwedagon Pagoda is a 98-metre gilded stupa.Burmese walk around the stupa clockwise.The base or plinth of the stupa is made of bricks covered with gold plates. Above the base are terraces that only monks and men can access.
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Shwedagon Pagoda-Yangon-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within, namely the staff of Kakusandha,the water filter of Konagamana,a piece of the robe of Kassapa and eight hairs of Gautama, the historical Buddha.
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Shwedagon Pagoda-Yangon-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The day of the week a person is born will determine their planetary post.Each planetary post has a Buddha image and devotees offer flowers and prayer flags and pour water on the image with a prayer and a wish.
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Monks-Yatzakyi-Burma Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Buddhist monks became the vanguards of the independence movement during colonial age and today of the fight against the military junta.It is compulsory for all boys of Buddhist family need to be a novice(beginner for Buddhism) before the age of twenty and to be a monk after the age of twenty.
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The author of this gallery Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The author of this gallery in Khay Min Ga,Bagan.
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