Next stop: Shwedagon Zedi Daw also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda.
The main stupa is being refreshed so that cuts into the volume of visible gold.
According to LP this monument “is adorned with 27 metric tons of gold leaf and thousands of diamonds and other gems, and believed to enshrine eight hairs of the Gautama Buddha as well as relics of three former Buddhas.”