It was worth every step of the hard and uneven climb to the top. I was speechless at the sight of the innumerable temple towers that stretched out across the landscape, turning orange in the evening light. These towers, some of which were built as early as the 11th century, have been damaged in places by war and earthquakes, but still number between two and three thousand. Bagan, located on a plain along the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy river central basin, is one of the three great historical Buddhist sites in the world, alongside Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Borobudur in Indonesia.
