{"id":11066,"date":"2013-10-28T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:03:04","slug":"myanmar-trekkers-fly-north-to-bagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/28\/myanmar\/myanmar-trekkers-fly-north-to-bagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Trekkers Fly North To Bagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 28, 2013<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11066 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan.jpeg' rel=\"lightbox[11066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11067\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan-130x130.jpeg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan-70x70.jpeg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fruit-and-vegetable-market-in-Bagan-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11067'>\n\t\t\t\tFruit and vegetable market in Bagan (Jenni Fogle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[11066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11068\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/My-hand-on-the-fingernail-of-a-giant-Buddha-statue-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11068'>\n\t\t\t\tMy hand on the fingernail of a giant Buddha statue (Jenni Fogle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[11066]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11069\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan-130x130.jpg 130w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan-70x70.jpg 70w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shwesandaw-Pagoda-in-Bagan-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11069'>\n\t\t\t\tShwesandaw Pagoda in Bagan (Jenni Fogle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00c2\u00a0 There were once over 10,000 temples in Bagan and even today several thousand remain.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that &#8220;we visited a few important temples, had a great lunch at an Indian restaurant and visited a lacquerware factory.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;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&#8217;ll be checking in tomorrow with a report from Kanpalet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 28, 2013 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.\u00c2\u00a0 There were once over 10,000 temples in Bagan and even today several thousand remain.\u00c2\u00a0 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports that &#8220;we visited a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myanmar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11070,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions\/11070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}