Sunday, July 27, 2008

Shwedagon Pagoda

Shwedagon Pagoda is one of Buddhist shrines, located in center of Yangon city, Myanmar, South East Asia. They estimate this pagoda established 2500 years ago. This pagoda cover by gold that’s why they called Shwedagon because shwed means gold and dagon is name of Yangon city long time ago. This place has one big stupa arounding with 64 small stupa (stone structure in the shape of a bell) and one stupa. The biggest stupa beside cover by gold, there also covered by diamonds and ruby, in the top of this pagoda, there is 76 karat of diamond. If you want to visit this place, it’s

Open from 4 AM until 9 PM.


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