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21/12/2025
Bagan lies in central Myanmar, spread across open land where thousands of temples stand quietly, without fences or drama. This isn’t a museum arranged for visitors. People live here. Children cycle past old brick structures. Farmers work fields beside buildings that have stood for centuries. What people are proud of is not how old Bagan is, but how normal it still feels to them. The temples are not treated as distant relics. They are part of the landscape, like trees or roads. Life goes on around them without ceremony. There is no rush to modernise everything, no attempt to compete with louder destinations. Bagan survives through continuity. For the people who live nearby, that steadiness matters more than attention. History here doesn’t interrupt daily life. It simply exists alongside it.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
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