Schwedagon Pagoda is the most important religious site in Myanmar. It's 99 meter tall gilded gold spire towers over the city of Yangon and is visible from almost every corner of Yangon. Thousands of Burmese visit the pagoda every day to pray and make merit. Burmese believe Schwedagon was built in 587BC, making it more than 2,600 years old.

It is the oldest religious structure in the world and probably the oldest continuously inhabited building in the world.