Route
From Yangon’s golden Shwedagon to Bagan’s temple plain and Mandalay’s Mahamuni — Myanmar’s great Theravada axis.
Shwedagon is the country’s preeminent living stupa; Bagan offers a horizontal pilgrimage across an ancient capital; Mahamuni concentrates Upper Myanmar devotion on a single sacred image.
5 mapped anchors on the circuit.
1Shwedagon PagodaMyanmarGolden stupa of Yangon said to enshrine relics of four Buddhas.
2Kyaiktiyo (Golden Rock)MyanmarGravity-defying gilded boulder pagoda — one of Myanmar’s most famous pilgrimage wonders.
3BaganMyanmarPlain of thousands of brick temples and stupas — Myanmar’s great Buddhist archaeological landscape.
4Sagaing HillsMyanmarHill of monasteries and nunneries across the river from Mandalay.Sagaing Hills → Mahamuni Buddha Temple· ~13 km / 8 mi
5Mahamuni Buddha TempleMyanmarMandalay’s most sacred Buddha image — continuously anointed with gold leaf by devotees.
