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Myasigon Paya

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:26:50

About 820 feet south of Shwesandaw, off Pagoda St, this lovely modern pagoda features a gold zedi and many glass mosaics. On the north side, an open building has a faded mural of Taungoo kings. A nearby squat white building is actually a museum (to have it opened, ask in the pagoda; it usually costs K1000). The museum has bronze images of Erawan (the three-headed elephant who serves as Indra’s mount) and assorted Buddha images, but is more interesting for its random secular collection of British colonial-era memorabilia, including an ancient Kodak camera, 80-year-old plates and a cream soda bottle.