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The 6.8-magnitude earthquake damaged dozens of ancient structures
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on Wednesday killed four people and damaged dozens of ancient structures dotting the plains of Bagan.
The country's President Htin Kyaw visited the area on Thursday to see the damage and discuss how to repair it with local officials.
Bagan's spectacular plain has more than 2,200 pagodas, temples, monasteries and other structures on it, most left over from the city's heyday in the 11th-13th century, when it was the capital of the regions that went on to form modern Myanmar.
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Incredibly, no-one in Bagan was killed in the quake, although four people died elsewhere
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The Sulamani temple was one of the most famous to be damaged
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Wednesday's was just the latest, and far from the most damaging, of hundreds of quakes to hit Bagan since its famous sites were built between the 10th and 14th centuries
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With many years of hasty - some critics say too hasty - restoration in the past, a lot of what fell was in fact more recent material
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Bagan is one of Asia's most famous historic sites and is the centrepiece of Myanmar's fast-growing tourism industry
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Military personnel were drafted in to clean up
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After the quake, some tourists still took pictures of the sights, but from a safe distance
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Thousands of structures dot the plains of Bagan, which was once the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan - an early version of what is now Myanmar
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The quake was also felt in neighbouring Bangladesh
