Crumbling Burmese Architecture for WSJ Magazine » Shwesandaw Pagoda
The Shwesandaw Paya (Pagoda) in Bagan, Myanmar is one of the most popular pagodas from which to watch the sun set. The enterprising traveler will instead venture up the pagoda at sunrise and thus miss all of the late afternoon crowds and bus traffic. Here tourists swarm up the pagoda on the westward facing side to catch the dying rays of the day.