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Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ; MLCTS: pu.gam, IPA: [bəɡàɴ]; formerly Pagan) is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
Restaurants in Bagan
1. One Bagan Tours
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5.0 based on 569 reviews
Bagan is one of the most popullar country in the world.Most of people know myanmar means not only smile country but also very helpful.That is why we make new tour in this webpage to run the travel and most easy to find and help the traveller get the right information about myanmar.Our service more polite for any traveller who come from different corner of the country. please Enjoin with Us here
2. Old Bagan Tours
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5.0 based on 98 reviews
Old Bagan Tour offers not only provide your travel needs in Bagan, but also show you the entire country. Aung Zay is qualified guides with government issued identification, a native to land of Bagan. Our passion is to share my culture and tradition to every visitor. Being working in Travel Industry for over 8 years, you can be assuring to received the best service.
3. Jasmine Family Lacquerware Workshop
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5.0 based on 164 reviews
Reviewed By sso617 - Bern, Switzerland
One of the best things I did in the Bagan area, maybe THE best, was go to this workshop. You will have a real experience. It is a family business, on their family compound (amazing to see), and they make beautiful, exquisite lacquer items of all types. There was zero pressure, everyone was friendly, but most importantly, they actually wanted to have a relationship with you as someone interested in what they do in the traditional way. It's hard to describe--they show you *everything* about how lacquer items are made: materials, processes, etc. Going here is a completely different experience from just buying a lacquer item in a shop. It will mean so much more to you when you get it home if you buy it here. And you will be convinced that you got the best possible product. Prices seemed entirely fair to me. But, again, this is a whole experience, not just a shopping experience. The location of the shop is correct on Google maps. Just keep going until your dot is where their shop is. As others have noted, please use an e-bike to get there; local politics and the location of the shop dictate that the owners must pay tuk-tuk and taxi drivers to show up, so they are forced to charge you more as well. It's just a five minute walk from the main road, if that, but again, e-bike is best. I was a solo traveler and sometimes that means feeling a bit awkward in situations like this, but in this case it felt completely natural. Can't recommend enough. There's a reason it's the #1 shopping experience in Bagan!
4. Salay House
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5.0 based on 38 reviews
Salay House restaurant And Salay River View Inn Dear Sir, We renovated the old trader house in Salay as an old traditional style .And we display the old furnitures and some antiques in Salay house as a living museum. Then we created the lovely garden with local flowering plants and mango trees on the bank of Ayarwaddy river. And so all the guests can enjoy their breakfast, lunch and also dinner with river view .And also the guests can enjoy the lovely sunset with some drinks. Salay River View Inn It is siturated in the same compound with river view. All the guest can take the relax and feel the pleasure with nice view, with the fresh air, amd also with the nature. We do enviromental friendly hotel and use less plastics as possible. The building was built with teak wood and volcanic. Stones, sand stones. Most of the rooms are decorated with myanmar traditional teak wood curvings and some with old furnitures.At Salay House and Salay River View Inn, you can learn, dine and stay happily.
Reviewed By 810susana - Bexleyheath, United Kingdom
A small boutique hotel ran by a husband and wife team, who take great care to give you the best service they can. They engage with you whenever they are around. The rooms are traditional style with lots of nice extra touches. The staff offer to spray your room every night against mosquitoes and couldn't be more helpful. We only ate in the hotel as there was nowhere else suitable locally for tourists as the hygeine standards are very low outside the hotel. The hotel was beautifully clean, there were handwashing facilities in the restaurant and in the garden should you chose to eat outside. The view over the Irrawaddy river was wonderful and particularly the sunset. The owners are currently doing up a boat so they can offer dining on the boat and expand their business and I am sure this will be worthwhile for them. We had the best room in the hotel, nearest the river upstairs at the end of the balcony. No complaints there. The food was exceptional, service wonderful, the staff even got up early (at 5.00am) on our departure day to ensure we had breakfast. Highly recommend for food, or for accommodation. We would consider returning because it was so good, but would say the only thing missing for us was a swimming pool (however small).
5. Golden Ladle Cooking Class & Restaurant
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5.0 based on 39 reviews
Here I have great news for you that I would like to introduce you with the little kitchen cooking class where you can make local foods together with local residents. I have got the idea for my clients to offer local food cooking experience as a being English Tour Guide for those who would like to create fantastic foods at my " Golden Ladle" cooking class.Then we offer two classes in a day.There are morning class and evening class.Morning class normally start at 8:30am which is included to visit the market. Evening class has won't. We start evening class at 4:30pm.The classes take about three hours.We usually make different burmese dishes at our class. There are normally six or seven dishes we teach in the class.Thank you in advanced.
Reviewed By kevinTarmak
Made the evening class, it was only two of us and we learned to cook 5-6 dishes. You actually do most of the cooking in this class which is what we were looking for. Very friendly family and good food. We recommend.
6. KozyTours
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5.0 based on 22 reviews
KozyTours of Bagan offers you bespoke experiences which differ from the usual popular tourist attractions. We are 3 young local entrepreneurs running a small-scale venture with detailed knowledge of special locations such as tourist-free sunrises and sunsets. We can arrange private day tours to rural sights beyond Bagan such as Mt.Popa. Enjoy our smooth taxi rides and Night-Views by Auto Riskshaw.
7. Shwezigon Paya
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4.5 based on 1,064 reviews
Reviewed By JoyBoseRoy - Bengaluru, India
This is a huge pagoda complex in Bagan. It includes the main pagoda and also many smaller temples. The atmosphere is very inspiring and devotional, with many devotees circumambulating, chanting, offering incense or meditating around the pagoda. There is a huge variety of architectures of the smaller temples and the main pagoda, which makes it so unique and a must visit. There is a walkway from the main Bagan road (leading to other main temples like Ananda temple), which goes via a number of markets selling Burmese traditional clothes, lacquerware etc. The pagoda can get a little crowded in the evenings. All in all, this beautiful golden pagoda is a must see for all visitors to Bagan.
8. Dhammayazika Pagoda
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4.5 based on 200 reviews
Reviewed By O491CUjasons - Melbourne, Australia
This was one of my favourite Pagodas in my few days of temple seeing in Bagan. Located closer to new Bagan is was a stunning temple to see very different from many other temples with its design and detail, amazing beauty to it from all sides. Along most other temples this one had a lovely small garden area at the back you can walk around. Very peaceful place also very popular with the locals for there daily prays.
9. Buphaya Paya
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4.0 based on 326 reviews
Reviewed By travelwithshreya - Phitsanulok, Thailand
We again rode back crossing the other side of Anawrahta road and headed straight to the riverside for around 3 km to Bupaya temple. This temple is located by the Irrawaddy river, and after sunset, you can have it all by yourself as all crowd dissipates by now. It was a great place for us to spend some peaceful time away from the crowds by the river looking at the beautiful hues of the sky after sunset
10. Lawkananda Pagoda
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4.0 based on 124 reviews
Reviewed By RicardoBowie - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The Pagoda with its gold stupa sits above the Irawaddy River with stunning views of the river and Westerly views for incredible sunsets. Well worth a visit when in Bagan for river, pagoda and sunset combo. Turn up 5.30 ish and enjoy the views.
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