HSINBYUME PAGODA (OR MYA THEIN TAN)
Read moreTo the north of the site, following the trail along the river, the Hsinbyume pagoda looks like a big cream cake. Built on a circular plan, it has seven concentric terraces, finished with wave-like parapets representing the seven mountains and oceans around Mount Meru. At the top of the highest of the terraces rises a sanctuary set in a cylindrical body. Access by three staircases covered by arcades carved in stucco.
PAHTODAWGYI PAGODA
Read moreAt first glance, Mingun is a small Burmese village, with its oxcarts and dusty dirt tracks. A dispensary overlooking the river, where old Burmese women dry garlic, floating bamboos waiting for their transit, and the biggest pile of bricks in the world: King Bodawpaya's unfinished project of the world's largest pagoda. Greedy for power, he only had time to build the pagoda's promontory where two lions, damaged by the 1838 earthquakes, stand at the entrance of the site. Since his death in 1819, the project has remained like this.