Magnificent Pagodas In Indein Village And Undiscovered Secrets In The Myanmar Jungle
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Great Sphinx of Giza, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Moai statues, Petra, Ephesus, and many, many other magnificent ancient sites can be added to the list of sites worthy of admiration for anyone interested in ancient history.
We tend to admire what we can see, but some remarkable places are just as beautiful but virtually unheard of, and here is one such example.
This place has not gone untouched by the influence of foreign tourism, which has its advantages and disadvantages.
In the small Indein village west of Inle Lake in Myanmar (Burma), there is an extraordinary complex of stunning ancient pagodas that vary in size and shape.
Known as the Shwe Inn Thein pagodas, these beautiful structures are believed to be a legacy of Ashoka, one of India's greatest emperors who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 268 to 232 B.C.
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