Myanmar completes repairs on hundreds of quake-hit ancient temples

A file pic showing the Milky Way as seen above a temple complex in Bagan, Mandalay Region. Restoration experts have finished repairs to hundreds of temples in Myanmar's ancient city of Bagan, almost four years after they were damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. - AFP

YANGON, July 26 (dpa): Restoration experts have finished repairs to hundreds of temples in Myanmar's ancient city of Bagan, almost four years after they were damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake.

The UNESCO-listed city typically draws hundreds of thousands of tourists a year with its sprawling plain of over 3,200 centuries-old Buddhist pagodas.