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Myanmar World Heritage Site Residents Demand Return of Visitors as COVID-19 Hits Economy Horse-drawn carts in Bagan in July 2020. / Zaw Zaw / The Irrawaddy 2.5k By Zue Zue 26 January 2021 Yangon Bagan residents who are dependent on tourism have called for the site to be reopened to visitors with COVID-19 precautions. They said they would ask the Mandalay regional government to reopen pagodas and temples in Bagan and allow tourist businesses to trade by February as they are struggling. They also sent a petition to Mandalay Region chief minister Dr. Zaw Myint Maung on Monday. COVID-19 restrictions have hammered Bagan’s hotels, restaurants, horse-cart drivers and souvenir shops. Bagan has been closed since the first COVID-19 cases were reported in March last year and residents are struggling to make ends meet, said resident U Min Chan Oo, who operates a tuk-tuk and e-bike rental firm. ....
1,000? girl: 1,000. philippe: okay. done. now, this is breakfast. anthony: nearly 19 hours into our 10-hour trip, and the night express to bagan lurches and bounces onward over old and poorly maintained tracks. could have flown back to new york for breakfast. i i had time. what s in yours? philippe: carrots. root. anthony: i got potatoes in mine. philippe: how to make good food pretty. look at this. anthony: a bouquet of fish. philippe: indeed. so, this is it. this is the plain of bagan. anthony: out the window, the modern world seems to fade away, then disappear altogether, like the last century never happened, or even the century before that. we re traveling across the largest mainland nation in ....
philippe: the sleeping car lost a wheel, uh, and the dining car. so, we get a new anthony: well, no, we lost the dining car, i hear. philippe: we lost the dining car, but even our original sleeping car lost a wheel. so, we just have to hope for the best. anthony: the night express to bagan, 600 kilometers of what will turn out to be kidney-softening travel by rail. but bagan, myanmar s ancient capital, i ve been told, is a must-see. philippe: the true old english experience. the engine is a french engine from the 70s. anthony: we ve been told it s a somewhat uncomfortable ten-hour trip. so really, the question on this end of the journey is, come back on the train or flying coffin? mishaps on both burmese planes and trains are not, shall we say, unheard of. the widowmaker express. ....
anthony: 1,000 years ago, bagan was the capital for a long line of kings. it s the sort of place where the old coexists with the even older. as elsewhere in this part of the world, in many of the buddhist temples here, far older animist spirit-based beliefs coexist with more recent buddhism. and, in myanmar, worship of the nats is widespread. nats, as i understand it, are more like greek gods, former humans, demigods, spirits, often with very human qualities and failings. dance performances pay homage to the individual nats, performers claiming to actually channel them, bringing about, one hopes, a beneficial spiritual possession. but i m not just here for a nat. ....