{"id":19847,"date":"2015-10-08T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T05:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=19847"},"modified":"2015-10-14T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:00:32","slug":"amazing-myanmar-photo-tour-2015-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/amazing-myanmar-photo-tour-2015-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Myanmar Photo Tour 2015: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudyard Kipling once described Burma (Myanmar) as: \u201cquite unlike any land you know about.\u201d Myanmar, the \u201cGolden Land\u201d, is perhaps the least discovered country in Southeast Asia. We’ve been doing photo tours in Myanmar for the last 9 years<\/a> and in the last few, we have seen a steady increase in tourism. The reason that Myanmar is getting more popular is because it combines some of the most amazing scenery, a plethora of incredible Buddhist temples and the most friendly, welcoming, enchanting, curious and delightful people you’ll ever meet.<\/p>\n

Myanmar’s most famous Pagoda is \u00a0Shwedagon and of course the 2015 Amazing Myanmar Photo tour <\/a>itinerary included a total of 3 visits to \u00a0Shwedagon Pagoda.<\/p>\n

Yangon, or Rangoon as it was once called, is the largest city in Burma and contains the amazing Shwedagon Pagoda. The origin of the Shwedagon Pagoda dates back over 2500 years. Gautama Buddha presented eight strands of sacred hairs to two merchants, who offered it to King Okkalapa on their return. The king built a pagoda on a hilltop overlooking the port city of Okkalapa, in which the sacred hairs were enshrined. Successive monarchs enlarged the pagoda by building outer structures over the original. The present stupa reaching a height of 326 feet was completed in the mid 1450s by Queeen Shin-Sawpu. The last renovation of the Shwehtidaw (literally meaning the \u201cGolden Umbrella\u201d and comprising the Diamond Bud, the vane and the shaft) was successfully undertaken by King Mindon in 1871.<\/p>\n

As mentioned above, we visit Shwedagon Pagoda three times on our photo tour, once in the morning and twice at sunset. The following 26 images will give you a look at our first day on tour and this most amazing temple along with the people who come to see it and worship. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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