“This is the worst natural disaster of my lifetime,” one man told us in the days after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit close to the famed ancient city of Bagan on August 24.
For Myanmar, Bagan is a profoundly important religious site as well as a tourist hub. Not only were at least three people killed in the disaster, but scores of pagodas, hundreds-of-years old, were badly damaged.
When we traveled there, shortly after the quake, we found a community in shock and a host of volunteers struggling to carry out repairs amid heavy monsoon rain.
Video by Aung Naing Soe.
