Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I rise from the ground in the basket of a hot-air balloon, dawn is breaking and the first of hundreds of ancient temples comes into view. Through the ...

BAGAN, Myanmar - The moment of takeoff was silent and mesmerizing. Within seconds, our hot-air balloon was floating above the treetops, gliding toward what Marco Polo called "one of the finest sights ...

Rescue workers surveyed the damage Thursday after a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar, killing at least four people and damaging 185 ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

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Collapsed walls surround an ancient pagoda after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Bagan on August 24, 2016. (Soe Moe Ang/AFP/Getty Images) An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017 photo, hot air balloons are seen just after takeoff to fly over the ancient Myanmar city of Bagan.

BAGAN, Myanmar (AP) - The moment of takeoff was silent, and mesmerizing. Within seconds, our hot air balloon was floating above the treetops, gliding toward what Marco Polo called "one of the finest ...