LIVE Updates | Modi in Myanmar: PM visits Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, signs guest book

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, one of the most revered sites in Myanmar, on the second day of his two-day visit to the country.The Prime Minister signed the guest book at the Shwedagon Pagoda. With a gold-plated, 99-meter tall (325 feet) spire encrusted with diamonds and rubies, the pagoda towers over Yangon and is the spiritual center of the Burmese Buddhism.

Prime Minister will next visit the Kalibari Temple, where the security has been beefed up.

Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the capital to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw in central Myanmar.On Wednesday, Prime Minister Modi visited the famous Ananda Temple in Myanmar's ancient city, Bagan, which was damaged in a tremor in 2016 and is being renovated with India's assistance.