Shwedagon Pagoda will undergo its regular maintenance soon and donors are pledging gold and money to make it happen.
Scaffolding is being erected around the Shwedagon Pagoda to cover the whole circumference of the pagoda with new gold plates.
Pagoda officials forecast to use over 81 kilos of gold and cash of 11.4 million US dollars in gilding the over 320 feet tall pagoda.