October 28, 2013
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- Fruit and vegetable market in Bagan (Jenni Fogle)
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- My hand on the fingernail of a giant Buddha statue (Jenni Fogle)
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- Shwesandaw Pagoda in Bagan (Jenni Fogle)
The Myanmar trek team flew north to Bagan today, the ancient city that was once the capital of the Pagan kingdom that unified Burma back in the 11th-13th centuries. There were once over 10,000 temples in Bagan and even today several thousand remain. IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that “we visited a few important temples, had a great lunch at an Indian restaurant and visited a lacquerware factory. We’ll be going out for an early dinner tonight and getting an early start in the morning to head to Kanpalet. Our local guide has double-checked the road conditions and it sounds like all is clear for our overland journey to the west into Chin State. I’ll be checking in tomorrow with a report from Kanpalet.”
Eric Simonson