Holy Sites in Myanmar

Myanmar's most sacred Buddhist pagoda, gilded with 60 tons of gold.

An ancient city with over 2,000 Buddhist temples and pagodas.

A golden boulder perched impossibly on the edge of a cliff, balanced by a single hair of the Buddha.

Home to one of Myanmar's most venerated Buddha images, thickly encrusted with gold leaf.

The finest and best-preserved temple in Bagan, known as the 'Westminster Abbey of Burma.'

One of the last great temples built in Bagan, with exquisite plaster carvings and murals.

A gilded stupa in Bagan believed to enshrine a bone and tooth of the Buddha.

An ancient pagoda at the heart of Yangon that has served as a landmark for over 2,000 years.

Home to the 'world's largest book' — 729 marble slabs inscribed with Buddhist scriptures.

The tallest pagoda in Myanmar, enshrining two sacred hair relics and a tooth of the Buddha.