Days 149, 150 and 151 - the temples of Bagan

First full day and the big question remained how to get around the huge number of temples...  

Day one, to cover longish distances, we carried on with our chap with a pony and trap,

Days two and three, we swapped to a teeny e-bike ("the Steed"), all the better to pootle up dirt tracks away from the crowds, and let Duncan relive old times...

 

Many and varied the temples are. From petite and delicately formed

to glistening and gorgeous

some unexpected ones 

and some hulking and brooding, this one with an apparently grisly and mysterious past : the king who commissioned it chopped off an arm of any builder mason whose work did not satisfy him, and had passageways filled with rubble (and what else...?!)

 

We revisited sunset vantage points by day for more fabulous views, 

and found others for a slightly different angles, and internal frescoes and detail

 

And my goodness don't the balloons come out in force at sunset (all very well going up but you'd have thought tricky landing with all these sharp pointy things scattered around....)