Bago Things to Do

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En Kyaik Pun Paya tiene cuatro Budas sentados , dandose la espalda, de 30 metros de altura cada uno y orientados mirando a los cuatro puntos cardinales
Cuatro hermanas Mon estan relacionadas con su construccion y se decia que si alguna se casaba se caeria un Buda.
Por lo que sea ,en el terremoto de 1930 se destruyo uno de los Budas ( en esta epoca ya tendrian 454 anos las hermanas Mon????)

In Kyaik Pun Paya they have four seated Bhudas, back to back, of 30 meters height each and looking to the four cardinal points
Four mon sisters are related with its construction and they said that if any of them was married one Bhuda should fall
For any reason during the 1930 earthquake one of the Bhudas was destroyed( on this time the Mon sisters should be on 454 years ????)

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Cementerio por los caidos aliados en la Segunda Guerra mundial.
Hay 27.000 soldados, ingleses, nepalís,australianos... enterrados y es un sitio cargado de melancolía y tristeza.
Las lápidas emocionan al leerlas
Cementery for the allies died in the Second World War
There are 27.000 soldiers : British, Nepalies, Australians,... burried and is a place full of mellancholy and sadness

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Bago is know for its four seated 30m high Buddha build in 1476 by King Dhammazedi.
An day trip from Yangon or a stop while travelling up north or down south.
Don't pay the 10$ admission to support the governement you see enough just walking around it.
Want to spend money , buy something from the kids the come to you.
I know you allready have 1000 postcards but it is a way for them to make a living instead of begging.

For me quiet moving was to see the individual graves, the first one that I really looked at was the grave of a soldier that left his life here, with an inscription in Afrikaans, the Lieutenant who died on the 27th of February 1945 was J.J.M. Smit – being South African it was a very sad moment.

Myanmar was also part of the bloody World War II battled. The Japanese occupation and war activities produced many Allied death from either war battles or the deadly prisoner camps. One of those camps can found along the road between Bago and Yangon.

International isolation over years have made the local population technical specialists if it comes to still keeping the museum busses on the road. This is one of the local overland busses driving between Yangon and Bago.

The local cloth as one gave me to wear at a local house is a simple cloth tied by a knot around once waste. I tried to wear it but failed horribly since it always dropped, since the Burmese men do not wear anything underneath – if I had copied that it may have been a little embarrassing.

Another very attractive temple close to the Main Pagoda is the Leaning Buddha. A massive gold plated statue of Buddha overlooks a temple and various stores below. It is a very popular place for local people