Tour Programs
Tour code – MD 13
Yangon, Golden Rock, Kyaing Tong, Heho, Mandalay, Monywa, Bagan,
Yangon
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Ho Latt Akha
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Tribes at Pan Kwai
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Thanbodday Pagoda |
Day 01 Arrival Yangon (by morning/ midday flight ) ( - / - / - )
Arrive Yangon by morning/ midday flight. You will be welcome by
your tour guide and transfer to the hotel. Have a rest at the hotel
until the late afternoon sightseeing starts.
Late afternoon visit the Chaukhtatgyi - the colossal reclining
Buddha; the Shwedagon Pagoda and sunset viewing from there.
Overnight Yangon.
Day 02 Excursion to Kyaikhtiyo (Golden Rock) – En-route visit
Bago ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to the camp Kimpun (about 5 hours),
from where the uphill motor road to hermit’s hill starts. En-route
visit Bago and sightseeing highlights include gigantic “Kyaikpun”
Buddha Images; Shwemawdaw Pagoda - towering 375 feet and taller than
Shwedagon; Shwethalyaung reclining Buddha Image – originally built
in 994 AD and is a masterpiece of Myanmar stucco and symmetry.
Arrive Kimpun camp and take the uphill pick up truck to reach the
hermit’s hill. A short trek, about an hour would take you to the top
of the mountain where you can see the Golden Rock - a large boulder
positioned well balanced on the cliff of that mountain - seems to be
defying the force of gravity from the spur of the cliff. Enjoy
sunset view over deep forested mountain.
Day 03 Kyaikhtiyo (Golden Rock) / Yangon ( B / - / - )
Early sunrise viewing and tour nearby golden rock to “Crow Beak”
cave and hunter’s hill before breakfast. Breakfast at the hotel and
descend the mountain to reach back to Kimpun camp from where we
start our return journey back to Yangon. En-route visits the
fisherman village near Waw town. Arrival back to Yangon.
Overnight Yangon.
Day 04 Yangon – Kyaing Tong (Flight) – visit Wan-Pauk ( B/ - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Free at leisure until
transfer to the airport to take the flight to Kyaing Tong. Arrive
Kyaing Tong airport transfer to hotel. After check in at the hotel,
visit Wan-Pauk, the village of the red clothed Palaung with silver
and lacquered ware bands. Overnight Kyaing Tong.
Day 05 Kyaing Tong – Loi Mwe (car) ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at hotel. In the morning, walk to
Kyaing Tong bazaar will take five minutes to see many minority
people shopping in the morning. After visit bazaar drive to Loi-Mwe,
the hill top palace with peaceful surroundings (5,542 ft above sea
level) and have a look at old British colonial governor’s houses and
old Church. Then to Ho Latt Akha small village, Naung Cho Wa small
village and Pang-Y Lahu village.
Overnight Kyaing Tong.
Day 06 Kyaing Tong – Hokyin Mountain ( B / - / -
)
Breakfast at the hotel. One and half-hours drive
to Tachileik direction, Pan Kwai village and continue upwards to
visit Akha’s villages at Hokyin mountain where they stay together in
different belief.
Overnight Kyaing Tong.
Day 07 Kyaing Tong – Heho (Flight) / Inle full
day sightseeing ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport
to take the flight to Heho. Arrive Heho and drive to Inle Lake
exists 900 meters above the sea level and the home land of Inthar
tribe. Visit the regional once in every fifth day market takes place
around the different area of the Inle Lake if today coincides with
the market day. Phaungdawoo Pagoda – famous for its richly gilded
five small Buddha images and its history; Ngaphechaung monastery
(formerly also known as jumping cat monastery for trained jumping
cats) – more than one and a half century old monastery with its
collection of ancient Buddha Images. Other attractions include
unique leg-rowing style and fishing method of the Innthar; floating
gardens and vegetable plantations; and weaving factory and black
smith. Overnight Inle Lake.
Day 08 Indein sightseeing – Heho / Mandalay
(Flight) ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Taking the boat to the
down south and into a small twist and turn creek running into the
lake, we would reach the Indein village – a small village located at
the south western bank of the lake and famous for its ruined
clusters of pagodas dated back to 16th century. The tranquility,
peaceful ambience and ruins overgrown with bushes would bring you to
centuries back. One can also have the chance to chat with villagers
during the sightseeing time.
Transfer to the airport to take the flight to Mandalay. Arrive
Mandalay and transfer to the hotel. Overnight Mandalay.
Day 09 Amarapura & Mandalay Sightseeing ( B / -
/ - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Amarapura,
former Royal capital of Myanmar but the suburb of Mandalay nowadays.
Highlights include Mahargandaryone monastery - a typical monastic
school; U Bein bridge – the world’s longest teak wood bridge across
the Taungthaman lake – an ideal place to view the sunset; and silk
weaving factory.
Afternoon sightseeing includes Shwenandaw monastery – still existing
masterpiece of last Myanmar kingdom’s architecture in teak and wood
carving; Kuthodaw Pagoda – renowned as the world’s largest book; and
Mandalay Hill – regarded a natural watch tower in the plain region
of Mandalay – to view the sunset. Overnight Mandalay.
Day 10 Visit Mingun (Half Day) and Mandalay
sightseeing ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. From the Mandalay Gawwein
jetty, we would take a short boat ride up river to reach Mingun,
located at the other side of the Ayeyarwaddy river and north of
Mandalay. The boat ride is always pleasant as one can learn the ways
of local life along the river. Sightseeing highlights includes
Pathodawgyi – believed to be one of the largest brick base in the
world and it would be one of the wonders of the world in case if it
was completed; Mingun bell – said to be world’s biggest un-cracked
and ringing bell and Myatheindan pagoda represents for Buddhist
cosmology. Return to Mandalay for the flight to Bagan.
Afternoon, Sightseeing at Mandalay, the last capital of Myanmar
kingdom, includes Mahamuni Buddha Image – believed to be cast in
bronze in front of Buddha himself and nowadays gilded with thick
gold leaf; gold leaf hammering, marble carving, and tapestry making.
Overnight Mandalay.
Day 11 Mandalay – Monywa – Poe Win hill ( B / -
/ - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Monywa, 157 km
north of Mandalay (about 3 ½ hrs by car) by the east bank of the
Chindwin river. Afternoon, we would cross the Chindwin river and
take the jeep or pick up truck drive to reach Po Win hill caves – an
interesting area with the caves containing ancient sculptures, mural
paintings dating from 17th and 18th centuries . Back to Monywa.
Overnight Monywa.
Day 12 Monywa – Pakkoku (Car) – Boat ride to
Bagan ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Leave Monywa. After 13 km
we would stop at Thanbodday Pagoda – an unusual Buddhist temple with
over 500,000 Buddha images. Visit one thousand Bodhi trees complex
where you will see the elegant standing, reclining and lying Buddha
statues are being built. An over looking view from a temple looks
nice
From there another 3 ½ drive to Pakkoku, another big town of Ahnyar,
could observe Ahnyar people, their land and climate, culture and
product. Take a boat sailing down to Bagan for two hours.Overnight
Bagan.
Day 13 Bagan full day sightseeing ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Bagan, one of Asia’s most
popular archaeological destinations and one out of two most
pre-eminent religious old cities in South East Asia. The sightseeing
starts with a visit to Nyaung Oo market – a typical local market;
followed by visits to most distinctive pagodas such as Shwezigon
Pagoda – the holiest one believed to be enshrined with Buddha tooth
and hair; Gubyaukgyi Temple ( Wetkyiinn village) – the 13th century
‘cave temple’ with fine frescoes of scenes from Jakatas; Ananda
Temple – one of the masterpieces surviving and remaining in Bagan
and considered to be in the Mon architecture style. A visit to the
lacquer ware factory followed by a visit to local village. Before
sunset, we would take a boat ride along the Ayeyarwaddy river to
discover the local life and view the sunset. Overnight Bagan.
Day 14 Bagan full day sightseeing / Bagan –
Yangon (flight) ( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. The second day
sightseeing at Asia’s best kept archaeological destination includes
a visit to Dhamayangyi Temple – the most massive, significant
monument in Bagan with finest mortar-less brickwork; Sulamani Temple
– close to the Dhamayangyi temple with more sophisticated style of
later Bagan temple; another Gubyaukgyi Temple at Myinkaba village –
believed to be built for Rajakumar on the death of his father, King
Kyansitta, and famous nowadays for its well preserved wall
paintings; Manuha Temple – built by detained Mon King Manuha;
Nagayon Temple – similar to the plan of Anada Temple and the main
attraction is that the twice life size Buddha Image shelters under
the hood of the naga or serpent inside the temple. Transfer to the
airport for the flight back to Yangon.
Overnight Yangon.
Day 15 Free at leisure until departure transfer
( B / - / - )
Breakfast at the hotel. Free at leisure until
your transfer to the airport and depart Yangon.
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