BAGAN, Myanmar — The vendor watched as members of an increasingly rare species — tourists — walked through a dirt parking lot toward Pyathat Gyi Temple, one of more than 2,000 religious monuments here on a riverside plain in central Myanmar.

They did not stop to buy her palm-sugar candies, which she covers with a plastic tarp to keep flies away, or any of the hats or T-shirts for sale at some nearby carts and stalls. It was nearly dusk and she had yet to make the day’s first sale.

“It used to be crowded here, before the earthquake,” the vendor, Daw Soe Moe Thue, said, referring to a 6.8-magnitude quake last year. It damaged 389 of Bagan’s monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi’s spire as if it were one of her candies.