Right out of a Disney movie - Bagan

Bagan, a small desert area of a few squire kilometer with no not 1000 pagodas but 4000! pagodas of all sizes. 2500 are still intact after the earthquake in the mid 90's.  After arriving in the extreme heat we went to see some pagodas, after a minute walk you'll see the first ones. It seems unreal that the place is covered with them. Now you may think what's the beauty of many pagodas on a small place. Well, I hope the pictures cover that! Even if it's impossible to capture the view with a camera we did our best to do so. And to do so we had to climb and search a lot of pagodas to get the best view of Bagan!

First day we took a horse car to ride to all the famous pagoda's, most of them are rather big and unfortunately not aloud to climb up to the top to see the view. while the ride was very nice it is t he main tourist thing to do here and you get to the same pagodas and temples as the Chinese/America tourist bus does. So for the other days we tried to find our own temple with the E-bikes!

 

 

 

If someone thinks a Prius car is lame, try a E-bike. I guarantee you, it's lamer! But a foreigner is not aloud to ride a scooter or anything with a petrol motor in it for that matter. So an E-bike is a nice maze in the law. Even if the bike is quite a slow form of transportation it brought us everywhere while driving the desert roads through the pagodas. It brought us to monks who live next to pagodas and who points you to places where you can climb up for stunning views over the area.

Our mission was to find the best temple for sunset. The last day we hit the jackpot. We found a pretty high pagoda, easy to climb the start, bit harder to reach the top. This is perfect so the "others" won't go all the way. Cause if you think you can find a deserted pagoda for sunset... well good luck :) And we were right! around sunset time we arrived at the few hours before deserted pagoda and now a tour bus arrived, but no problem! as most of the people were not able to climb all the way up. This resulted in some awesome shots. Bagan, a really magical place. Unreal!!