During the light festival (full moon of November), the pagodas are   
                    illuminated with candles. The Shwe-dagon pagoda in Yangon is  
                    surrounded by more than 9 000 candles or oil lamps .  
                       
                       
                    Shwe-dagon - Yangon - Myanmar (Burma)   
                    (photograph Ananda Travel Yangon) 
                      
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