Barefoot in splendid Shwedagon - Golden Temple

Each day, hundreds of Shwedagon Pagoda to welcome visitors from all over.

Shwedagon Singuttara located on a hilltop, the capital Yong Gun ( Myanmar ) just superficial world, just majestic. The four directions are the long stairs leading to the temple. Gold Tower 99 m high giant. The south gate is a twin temple lions 9 meters high, overlooking the city center. This is an indispensable attractions in Myanmar tours.

Take 5 USD to the Shwedagon Pagoda, golden temples and the most famous Myanmar is one of the famous religious architecture in the world. Everyone left the shoes outside, barefoot to the temple. The midday sun was burning platform hun yard rush that extra step. Football sunset reclining way is the moment most crowded temple visit. No one knows exactly when this temple was built, archaeologists estimate only temple with a history of 2,500 years.

The population included 1,000 Golden Temple to temple around the central tower. Of these 72 temples have stone Buddha statue inside. Under daylight as well as night lights, always found the golden temple golden light sparkles.

Also looks magnificent epic of ancient temples, visitors will be overwhelmed by how to decorate both inside and outside of the temple. Particularly the interior of the temple was carved sophisticated, picky about 8,690 thin gold leaf inlaid. The entire temple is decorated with 5,450 diamonds and 2,320 full size rubies, turquoise.

Every two hours the temple will be swept away by the people who come to worship.

In the temple hair kept 8 Shakyamuni Buddha, the most sacred treasures of Buddhism. Tower is a great center of art, covered in gold leaf with 9,300 total mass is 500 kg, and is decorated with thousands of precious stones, diamonds and rubies, along with hundreds of golden bells. On top of the tower is flag bunting is made entirely of gold, inlaid with 5,448 diamonds and contained 2,317 precious stones. Tower bells hanging all 1,065 gold and 421 silver bells.

The most noticeable is the 8 in 8 directions statue symbolizing 7 days a week (except Wednesday 's mid-week day is divided into morning and afternoon ). Each sculpture in the form a different species, and who was born on the day that the incense and holy water used for irrigation on the animal blessing. While the Myanmar people sit on the tile around the main temple, pray sincerely muttered, these are tourists sit down stairs, panoramic quiet temples, local rituals in the setting sun marriage has fallen.


Best time to visit the Golden Temple is the sunset. When visiting the temple, you should be dressed, not dressed in three holes, short skirts, flip-flops. Since this is a Buddhist country, you should respect your country's national religion.