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Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.721]
’Four Figures Pagoda.’

	The Four Figures Pagoda in Bago has four standing Buddha’s whose gilded robes shimmer in the late afternoon sun. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.734] ’Monks in the greenery.’	 Statues of monks with begging bowls line up in the greenery around a monastery at Payagyi, north of Bago. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.715] ’Shwemawdaw Pagoda at Bago.’	 With its height of 114 m. the central stupa of the Shwemawdaw Pagoda dominates the town of Bago. The structure is said to be over a thousand years old and was built to enshrine two hairs of Buddha. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.725] ’Thanaka.’	 A woman selling tomatoes in the market of Bago wears thanaka, the distinctive yellow paste made of pulverized tree-bark, worn by many Burmese women on their faces as a combination of sun block and make-up. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.716] ’Golden stupa rising above the green.’	 Viewed from the hill of the Hintha Gon Pagoda, the eastern covered stairway of Bago’s Shwemawdaw Pagoda can be seen leading up to its central golden stupa. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[BURMA 24.721]
’Four Figures Pagoda.’

The Four Figures Pagoda in Bago has four standing Buddha’s whose gilded robes shimmer in the late afternoon sun. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.721]
’Four Figures Pagoda.’

	The Four Figures Pagoda in Bago has four standing Buddha’s whose gilded robes shimmer in the late afternoon sun. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[BURMA 24.721]
’Four Figures Pagoda.’

The Four Figures Pagoda in Bago has four standing Buddha’s whose gilded robes shimmer in the late afternoon sun. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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