Mount Popa, Myanmar - Mount Popa- Most Powerful Nats

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Mount Popa is a vanished volcano last active 250,000 years ago. It is 1500-metre high and about 60-km south east of Bagan which is also well-known as the oasis of the dry zone in Myanmar. Set amid exquisite hill and forest scenery, Mount Popa is a steep-sided volcanic peak dedicated to the legendary "Nat" spirits of Myanmar. A holy place lies at the top of over 700 steps. Mount Popa is considered as home of Myanmar's most powerful “Nats” (supernatural beings) and is the most imperative“Nat” worship centre. There is a prodigy about this mountain and the spirits which goes back to the era of the King Anawrahta reign.