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Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.710] ’Tower at Insein.’	 The central square of the Ah Lain Nga Sint Pagoda at the village of Insein, north of Yangon, is occupied by an octagonal tower. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.820] ’Pagoda near Nampan village.’	 At the Inle Lake near Nampan village a narrow strip of land carries an enchanting pagoda. In the background shimmer the mountains of the Shan highlands. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.686] ’Washing a tiger.’	 At the ‘planetary post’ of the moon, a small shrine near the base of the central stupa of Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, a woman is ritually washing a tiger statue that is associated with the moon and monday. Worshippers make offerings to planetary posts according to the day of the week they were born. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.707] ’Fortune-teller’s poster.’	 A poster of a palm-reading fortune-teller at Yangon’s Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda promises good advice in matters of love and relations. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.673] ’Kandawgyi Lake and Shwedagon Pagoda.’	 In the last glow of the evening the golden stupa of the Shwedagon Pagoda hovers above the mirror-like surface of Yangon’s Kandawgyi Lake. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.710] ’Monks at Insein.’	 Young Buddhist monks on the central square of the Ah Lain Nga Sint Pagoda at the village of Insein, north of Yangon. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 25.065] ’Mingun.’	 Construction of the massive brick stupa of Mingun, north of Mandalay, started in 1790. Its intended height was 150 m., but when the work halted in 1819 only the 50m high base was finished. This was badly cracked by the earthquake of 1838. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.918] ’The Bagan plain in morning mist.’	 Surrounded by other temples, the 12th century Sulamani Temple (centre) can be seen appearing from a morning haze.The horizon of this view is formed by the hills around Mount Popa. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.674] ’Worshipping at the Shwedagon Pagoda.’	 Worshippers bow at the foot (right) of the Naungdawyi Stupa in the north-eastern corner of Yangon’s Shwedagon Temple. In the background towers the central stupa of the temple complex. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.710]
’Tower at Insein.’

The central square of the Ah Lain Nga Sint Pagoda at the village of Insein, north of Yangon, is occupied by an octagonal tower. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [BURMA 24.710] ’Tower at Insein.’	 The central square of the Ah Lain Nga Sint Pagoda at the village of Insein, north of Yangon, is occupied by an octagonal tower. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

[BURMA 24.710]
’Tower at Insein.’

The central square of the Ah Lain Nga Sint Pagoda at the village of Insein, north of Yangon, is occupied by an octagonal tower. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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