A Wonder on the Ayeyarwaddy

After the fall of Sri-Kshetra numerous Pyu settled in the region around. In the year 849, Bagan was fortified with a city wall for the first time and officially named Arimaddinapura or town of the enemy-destroyers. Bagan rise to prominence as the greatest Buddhist metropolis in the world in its day began in 1057, when King Anawyathar captured the Mon capital if Thaton. The only reason was that the founder of the first ever Burmese empire wanted the Buddhist writings of the first Mon Kingdoms and he wanted to unite the different people of his capital under the banner of single faith.

In the low precipitation dry zone of Myanmar, an arid landscape dotted with Palmyra palms on a bank in the Ayeyarwaddy River lines the Pogoda strew plain of Bagan – the largest area of Buddhist ruins in the world and one of the most magnificent site in all of the South-East Asia. The overview from the river was like as scene from another planet, so fascinating and other wordy was the architecture. In the idyllic villages situated in the area, cottage industries still produce the best lacquer work in Myanmar.