Bagan Travel Guide & Reviews

(formerly Pagan)


Age: founded in 1044 AD
Area: 118.4 km²
Population: 6.166 million
Location: Latitude 21° 10' N. Longitude 94° 51' E
Temperature: Min 10°C - Max 43°C


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General Information of Bagan

General Information of Bagan
info Today, Bagan (ပုဂံ) has many hotels and guest houses to stay in. Most popular ones are Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sakura, The Hotel@Tharabar Gate, Kumudra Hotel and many more.    
 

History of Bagan

History of Bagan
Bagan dates back almost to the beginning of the Christian Era.
 

Htilominlo Pagoda

Htilominlo Pagoda
info Htilominlo Pagoda (ထီးလိုမင်းလိုဘုရား) was built by King Nantaungmya in 1218.
 

Bagan

Bagan
Bagan (ပုဂံ) dates back almost to the beginning of the Christian Era.
 

Leimyathna Pagoda

Leimyathna Pagoda
info Leimyathna Pagoda (လေးမျက်နှာဘုရား) means "pagoda with four sides" in Myanmar.
 

Ahlodawpyae Pagoda

Ahlodawpyae Pagoda
info The Ahlodawpyae Pagoda (အလိုတော်ပြည့်ဘုရား) is located between the new Bagan and the village of Bagan, this temple is style of tradition between the first period and the intermediate period.
 

Lawkananda Pagoda

Lawkananda Pagoda
info Lawkananda Pagoda (လောကနန္ဒာစေတီတော်) was built in 1059 by King Anawrahta, who is also credited with the Petleik payas.
 

Ananda Pagoda

Ananda Pagoda
info Ananda Pagoda (အာနန္ဒာဘုရား) also known as Ananda Pahto, is estimated to be a monument of the early 12th Century.
 

Mahabodhi

Mahabodhi
info Mahabodhi Pagoda (မဟာဗောဓိစေတီ) was built by King Nantaungmya during 1211-1234.
 

Bu Paya (or) Bu Pagoda

Bu Paya (or) Bu Pagoda
info Bu Paya (ဗူးဘုရား) is said to be known to be constructed by King Pyusawhti during the 9th Century, about 850 AD.
 

Mingalazedi

Mingalazedi
info Mingalazedi (မင်္ဂလာစေတီ) ('Blessing Stupa') was built in 1277 by Narathihapati.
 

Dhammayazika Pagoda

Dhammayazika Pagoda
info Built in 1196 by Narapatisithu, the stupa of Dhammayazika Pagoda (ဓမ္မရာဇိက စေတီ) rises from three five-sided terraces.
 

Myazedi Pagoda

Myazedi Pagoda
info Myazedi Pagoda (မြစေတီဘုရား) is located between Myinkaba and Bagan. Myazedi meaning "Jade Pagoda" in Myanmar. From Myazedi, two identical pillars were found to have the same inscriptions on each face. Now, one of these pillars are in the Bagan Museum and the other one is under some shelter close to the Myazedi.
 

Dhammayangyi

Dhammayangyi
info Dhammayangyi Pagoda (ဓမ္မရံကြီး) is the most massive-looking temples in Bagan. It was built in late 12th century by King Narathu (1167-1170).
 

Manuha Pagoda

Manuha Pagoda
info Manuha Pagoda (မနူဟာဘုရား) was named after the Mon king from Thaton who was held captive in Bagan by Anawrahta.
 

Gadawtpalin Pagoda

Gadawtpalin Pagoda
info This Gadawtpalin Pagoda (ကန်တော့ပလ္လင် ဘုရား) is thought to be built between late 12th century to early 13th century.
 

Myoe Daung Monastery

Myoe Daung Monastery
info The Myoe Daung Monastery (မြို့ထောင့်ကျောင်း) building with an east-west orientation, is approximately 130ft (40m) x 115ft (35m). Most of its significant elements are from the pre-colonial Kone Baung period; some of the rooms were rebuilt.
 

Gubyaukgyi (Myinkaba)

Gubyaukgyi (Myinkaba)
info Gubyaukgyi (ဂူပြောက်ကြီး) is sometimes called "Myinkaba Gubyaukgyi" because of the resembling name of another pagoda in Wet-Kyi In.
 

Nagayon

Nagayon
info Nagayon Temple (နဂါးရုံဘုရား) is slightly south of Myinkaba, this elegant and well-preserved temple was built by Kyansittha. It is generally kept locked to protect its interesting contents. The main Buddha image is twice life size and shelters under the hood of a huge naga, or serpent. Therefore called "Nagayon".
 

Hnget Pyit Taung

Hnget Pyit Taung
info Hnget Pyit Taung (မဟာငှက်ပစ်တောင် မြတ်စွာဘုရား) meaning "The hill of the cut down bird". This place also refers to the legends of the king who killed the bird ogre is one of most significant historical monument. Several monasteries were grouped and the unit is called today, the brick monastery of Shin Arahan. It is thus on this ignored site, that the most beautiful page of the history of Bagan opened. It was also history of the introduction of Theravada Buddhism.
 

Pahtothamya

Pahtothamya
info In the same temple-crowded central area, the Pahtothamya (or Thamya Pahto) was probably built during the reign of Kyansittha (1084-1113), although it is popularly held to be one of five temples built by the non-historical king Taungthugyi (931-964).
 

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