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Sacred Places
Varanasi, Lalibela, Bagan and Lhasa — places of worship that are working places of worship, and how to visit without treating them as a set.
2 placesUttar Pradesh, on the Ganges
Varanasi
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, where Hindus come to die because dying here is said to end the cycle of rebirth. Confronting, and unlike anywhere.
Mandalay Region
Bagan
More than two thousand Buddhist temples and stupas across forty square kilometres of dry plain, built in two centuries and abandoned for six.