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Tour Program
Exciting Myanmar Tour with Partial
Trekking (17 Days/16 Nights)
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Yangon – Kalaw – Pindaya – Inle – Mandalay –
Pyin Oo Lwin – Monywa – Bagan – Popa – Sale –
Ngapali |
| DURATION
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17 Days/16 Nights |
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DAY 01: ARRIVAL YANGON
Upon arrival at Yangon International Airport welcome by
our local guide and transfer to your hotel for check-in. In
the afternoon visit to Botahtaung Pagoda, where sacred hair
relic of Lord Buddha is enshrined in it and at 16:00 P.M
board the RV Mahaythi for a sunset cruise on the Yangon
River. After arrival at War-tan Jetty at 18:30 P.M, transfer
to your hotel. Overnight stay at the hotel in Yangon.
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DAY 02: YANGON – HEHO - KALAW
(Trekking in Kalaw)
Morning flight to Heho in Shan State. Upon arrival drive
to Kalaw (approximately 1 hour), a beautiful pine-clad hill
station. In Kalaw visit the market and downtown area. In the
afternoon drive for 15 minutes to the north-west and stop at
the junction A. From here take the footpath to the right.
The road and trail goes through beautiful scenery. After 1½
hours you arrive Pane Hne Pin, a Palaung Tribal Village with
a population of 600 people. These people make their living
by agriculture and occasionally by hunting, and live in long
houses, with 4-5 families sharing the single storied
structures. From Pane Hne Pin you have to walk for 2 hours
to reach junction B from where the car will bring you back
to Kalaw (approximately ½ hr drive). Overnight at the hotel
in Kalaw.
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DAY 03: KALAW - PINDAYA - NYAUNG SHWE -
INLE LAKE
After breakfast drive to Pindaya (approximately 2 hours
drive), a charming village with its paper umbrella cottage
industry. Visit the Pindaya cave, famous for its thousands
of Buddha images and the paper umbrella cottage industry. In
the afternoon continue to Nyaung Shwe (approximately 3 ½
hours) drive, a small town at the northern end of Inle Lake.
From here take a boat for the transfer to your hotel, for
check-in and overnight at the hotel in Lake Inle. |
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DAY 04: INLE LAKE
Full day excursion on Inle Lake (25 km) famous for its
unique leg rowers, typical floating gardens, local methods
of fishing and village life and the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda
housing five sacred and almost shapeless Buddha images,
contorted because of the quantity of applied gold leaf,
gifts from the believers. The Buddha images are purported to
have come here in the 12th Century. Proceed to the silk
weaving village of In Phaw Khon and visit Nga Phe Chaung
(the biggest and oldest monastery around Inle Lake), visit
the silver smith. Overnight at the hotel in Lake Inle.
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LAKE - INDEIN
In the afternoon, continue to Indein (approximately
1 ½ hour drive) to see the ancient Bagan and Shan
style pagodas, built during Bagan Period, passing
the beautiful scenery with tall grasses and little
water steps. The ruin pagodas, hidden in the bushes
bring you back to the 12th Century. Overnight at the
hotel in Lake Inle. |
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DAY 06: INLE – MANDALAY
After breakfast transfer to Heho airport for the
flight to Mandalay, the city of the last Myanmar
Kings. Sightseeing of Mandalay starts with a visit
to the Shwe In Bin Kyaung, one of the most
outstanding monasteries and the down town area. In
the afternoon visit to gold leaf making industry,
Mahamuni Pagoda, originally built by King Bodawpaya
in 1784, hosting the revered Mahamuni image, cast in
the 1st Century and now covered in thick gold leaves
and arts and crafts center (bronze casting; stone
carving, etc.). Then drive to Amarapura, the "City
of Immortals" and enjoy the sunset at U Bein wooden
bridge, over 150 years old, which is still in use.
Overnight in Mandalay. |
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DAY 07: MANDALAY– MINGUN -
MANDALAY
After breakfast drive to jetty to watch the busy
riverside activity and take a local riverboat to the
ancient capital of Mingun (appr. 1 hour per way).
Visit the Settawya Pagoda, with a footprint of the
Buddha, walk to the huge Mingun Bell, see the nearby
unfinished Mingun Pagoda, built to be the world's
biggest pagoda and visit the Hsinbyume Pagoda, a
reproduction of the mythological Mt. Meru. Then come
back to Mandalay. In the afternoon visit the
Shwenandaw Monastery, noted for its exquisite wood
carvings, Atumashi Monastery, the "Incomparable
Monastery", the Kuthodaw Pagoda, known as the
world's Biggest Book for its stone slabs of Buddhist
scriptures and sunset on Mandalay Hill, a
vantage-point for panoramic view of the city.
Overnight in Mandalay. |
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DAY 08: MANDALAY – MANMYO -
MANDALAY
After breakfast start your day excursion to
Maymyo (appr. 2 hrs.). Maymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin) is the
name after a British Colonel May, who was there
during the British annexation in 1887. Maymyo became
British hill station from 1896. On arrival at Maymyo,
take a colonial style horse carriage to explore the
town with colonial houses. You should not miss the
downtown area with Purcell Tower, which was offered
by Queen Victoria as a present. Visit the National
Botanical Garden which features wide expanses of
manicured grass, large flower beds, 20 hectres of
natural forest with walking trails, rose garden, an
orchid house, a small stupa on an islet in a pond
and several other ponds. In the afternoon return to
Mandalay. Overnight stay at the hotel in Mandalay. |
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DAY 09: MANDALAY – SAGAING -
MONYWA
After breakfast drive to Sagaing Hill, a retreat
for Buddhist devotees with numerous pagodas and
monasteries (including nunnery, Oo Min Thonese and
Swan Oo Pon Nya Shin Pagoda), visit Kaunghmudaw
Pagoda and proceed to Monywa, a typical Myanmar town
located on the bank of the Chindwin River. Upon
arrival visit the Hindu Style Than Buddha Temple,
unique in all of Myanmar, beautifully decorated with
the most beautiful stucco work in the country,
dating from the 17th century. In the Afternoon visit
the cotton blanket weavers; the traditional lacquer
ware workers at Kyauk Kar village and finally go for
sunset to the Alantayar Pagoda, sight of reclining
Buddha image , over 300 feet in length. Overnight in
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DAY 10: MONYWA - PHO WIN TAUNG -
PAKOKKU - BAGAN
"Rise early to take the ferry to the other side
of the Chindwin River where you board a pick-up to
see the seldom visited 15th Phowin Taung temple
complex where more than 450,000 sandstone Buddha's
were carved in the hillsides in caves, alcoves, or
tiny niches. The cave murals are still intact with
indigo blues and soft pastels. Many of the Buddha's
can be seen without entering the caves or niches and
footwear is permitted as long as one is not entering
the sanctuaries. A stunning Buddha not to be missed
is the reclining Buddha resting on a rectangular
stone mosaic which shimmers with cut glass." Then
continue to Pankangyi, a 19th century town with old
city walls and an archaeological museum. Visit to
the Pakhan-ngai Kyaung, a 19th century largest
wooden monastery with 332 teak pillars. En route
stop at some villages to study the daily life of the
people in the rural area. After arrival in Pakokku,
a bustling tobacco trading centre, take a private
boat and cross the mighty Ayeyarwaddy River to Bagan
(appr. 2 hours). Overnight in Bagan. |
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DAY 11: BAGAN
Enjoy the whole day at the most extensive
archeological site in Asia. Bagan has over 2000
temples and pagodas of various sizes in varying
states of repair and spread across the plain.
Shwezigon Pagoda, built by King Anawrahta in the
early 11th century as a religious shrine; Gubyaukgyi,
a temple with exquisite murals of Jataka scene and
Ananda Temple with four huge standing Buddha images
and numerous seated figures and niches around the
galleried interior. In the afternoon visit lacquer
ware home industry, Manuha Temple built in Mon style
from 1059 and Nanphaya Temple, said to have once
been the residence of King Manuha; Gu Byauk Gyi
Temple (Myinkabar), which has very nice frescoes
inside. Enjoy sunset over terraces of the Shwesandaw
Pagoda. Overnight in Bagan. |
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DAY 12: BAGAN - MT. POPA - SALE -
BAGAN
After breakfast drive to Mt. Popa (appr. 1½ hrs
drive). On the way visit some villages and watch the
collection of juice from the palm trees, and its
conversion into palm sugar. Visit the great extinct
volcano. Rising out of the shimmering heat, the
solitary volcanic crag of Mt. Popa is home to
Myanmar's most powerful " nats ". Visit the Nat
Museum with its life-sized statues of the 37 Nat
Gods. Walk up the steps to the stupas and shrines
that top the hill above the museum, seeing many
pilgrims along the way. In the afternoon drive to
Sale (appr. 1 ½ hours), a religious centre with many
more working monasteries than found in Bagan today.
Visit the Payathonzu, with three shrines containing
mural paintings, Nan Paya, the largest lacquer
Buddha image in Myanmar, said to date to the 13th
century and the Yoke Sone Monastery, the oldest
surviving wooden monastery in Bagan area. In the
afternoon drive back to Bagan. Overnight in Bagan. |
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DAY 13: BAGAN - THANDWE - NGAPALI
After breakfast transfer to the airport for
flight to Thandwe (Sandoway) and upon arrival, the
car from hotel will pick you up from the airport and
transfer you to the beach. Full day relax on the
beach. Overnight at hotel in Ngapali. |
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DAY 14~15: NGAPALI
Relax on the beach. Overnight at hotel in Ngapali. |
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DAY 16: NGAPALI - THANDWE - YANGON
After breakfast transfer to the airport for the
flight to Yangon. Upon arrival visit the Mae La Mu
Pagoda, popular for all of its Buddha images, and a
much more "folk oriented" feeling than other
Pagodas. Tourists rarely visit it. Afternoon
sightseeing starts with Chaukhtatkyi Pagoda (a huge
reclining Buddha), Karaweik Hall, a Royal floating
barge on the Royal Lake for a photo stop and late in
the afternoon, visit the Shwedagon Pagoda described
by Somerset Maugham: "The Shwedagon rose superb,
glistening with its gold, like a sudden hope in the
dark night of the soul of which the mystics write,
glistening against the fog and smoke of the thriving
city." This massive bell-shaped stupa rises nearly
100 meters above its hill-top surroundings. Wander
through this magnificent structure and its
courtyards, stupas, bells, Temples, and Buddha
images, and see religious and secular visitors from
all parts of the globe. Shwedagon has become the
symbol of Myanmar. Enjoy the sunset over the Pagoda.
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DAY 17: YANGON DEPARTURE
After breakfast continue sightseeing of Yangon:
Sule Pagoda , dating back over 2000 years, walk
around the downtown area and don't miss the
sprawling Bogyoke Market! Wide streets, orderly town
planning and neglected public buildings revive
visions of British rule, while busy streets scenes
and shimmering pagodas, bursting through a leafy
canopy, hint at the rich local culture. Skyscrapers
and glaring neon billboards have yet to overtake the
capital. Afternoon free at your own leisure, till
transfer to Yangon International Airport for your
departure flight. End of service. |
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