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   On top of a hill north of the city Rangoon, Burma's capital, is Shwedagon Pagoda. Covering an area of 6.07 ha is a Pagoda complex structures or familiar bright and strange creatures: griffins, sfincsi, dragons, lions, elephants glow red and gold and slender palm rest are the only elements that look natural in this atmosphere loaded. Shwedagon is one of the places sacred to the Buddhist religion. Enshrined in the heart of the massive hive of gold is, according to tradition, the relics of four Buddhas who have embodied before on earth.

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