YANGONXinhua) -- The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 2.5 million visitors in the first four months of this year. U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon ...

The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred site in Burma. Its origins can be traced back to the first millennium, when a king was inspired by a legend involving eight strands of Buddha's hair.

The Pagoda was built to replicate the Shwedagon Pagoda of Yangon in Myanmar ... Travel writer Tanveer Gogada attends the Elephanta Festival and gets a high on Indian culture.

The grand pagoda at Gorai, modelled on the Shwedagon Pagoda at Yangon, Myanmar, and completed in 2008, is one of the largest stone monuments in Asia. The pagoda enshrines a relic of Buddha on the ...