Probably Bagan is the most impressive landscape I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s an unbelievable wide, green, almost mystical area, littered with more than 3.000 pagodas and temples. Some of them give a breathtaking view over the incredible surrounding, which is even more adorable at sunrise and sunset.

A few pagodas are not open any more or at least based by a bamboo frame since an earthquake in August 2016 has injured them even more.

You can go around by car or motorbike with a private guide, make a carriage ride, spent a lot of money for ballooning or rent an e-bike or a bicycle. I preferred last option, cause it’s the best way to run through the paths between Old and New Bagan even when it’s muddy after rain.

Tourism in Bagan is increasing noticeable, but in the small and isolated pagodas you are still alone or you will meet a lonely guide who’s whether an artist or a lacquerware-seller.