View from the Mandalay - Bagan slow boat, the trip took about 15 hours.

Local woman on the boat

The rest of the pictures on this page are from Bagan. The most famous archeological site in Myanmar, Bagan consists of a 42 square kilometer plain housing over 3,000 temples. Originally over 4,400 temples were built from the early to the late period, in the years of 850-1300. During the high period, the Bagari kings built an estimated 20 temples a year, for over 230 years. Eventually I will describe the photos in a lot more details, giving the names of individual temples, etc.

Take a look at the wikipedia page about Bagan for more info.

Initiation ceremony, these young kids are dressed up as little princes right before they are to become monks. Most kids ride on horse carts, if the parents can afford it they hire an elephant.

More temples in Bagan

This is our 2008/2009 New Years Celebration. Along with some other travelers that we met, we hired 2 horse carts to take us to the temple area before midnight. After gaining permission from the local temple guardians, we climbed to the top of this small temple, put up candles around the edges of a small terrace and toasted in the New Year with some local wine. It was the most memorable New Year I've had in a long time.