GRAND MYANMAR TOURS

This program will offer famous culture highlights of Myanmar, such as Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay & Inle area. And also you can visit Salay, famous its ancient temples and statutes made by traditional lacquer. You will get the some difference experience in Shan State by passing through the panoramic view of Shan Plateau. 

Day 1 : Yangon arrival
Arrive Yangon Int’l Airport. Meet and greet by our experienced speaking guide and transfer to the hotel. Start Yangon City Tour including Sule Pagoda, dating back over 2,000 years ago. Heading to Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda to see a huge reclining Buddha image. Complete your first day in monuments, the Shwedagon Pagoda: its golden stupa is the ‘heart’ of Myanmar. Drive back to hotel and leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 2 : Bagan (B)
Morning breakfast at hotel and transfer to Yangon Airport depart for Bagan by flight (1 & 20 mins). Arrive Nyuang U Airport and transfer to the hotel. Start visit to the famous Pagodas and Temples including Shwezigon Pagoda built by King Anawrahla in the early 11th as a religious shrine. Annada Temple: a whitewashed masterpiece of Mon architecture at 18th century, Thatbinnya Temple known as “temple of omniscience” and dating from 1144. Free and leisure at Hotel. Afternoon visit one of Myanmar’s most treasured handicrafts, a lacquer ware home industry : near by Myingabar village. Continue visit to Damayangyi Temple (the massive temple in Bagan). Experience by local Horse-cart way to Pyitthagyi Temple (15 mins). Drive back to the Hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 3 : Bagan-Salay-Mt.Popa-Bagan (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. First visit to Nyaung-Oo morning market to see people ways of life. Drive to the banks of the Ayeyarwady River through Chauk, old Burma Oils installations and pass-through to Kyaukpadaung and to visit the local market. Continue to Salay, to visit the Yokesone Monastery, which is the oldest surviving wooden monastery hall built on 154 teak posts with beautiful woodcarvings decorating the outer walls. Continue drive to Mount Popa by car (1 hour drive), and extinct volcano with spectacular views. It’s shrine is dedicated to animalist spirits known as “NATS” and will have to climb 777 steps to the shrine at the top of the peak. After visit, drive back to the Bagan and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 4 : Bagan-Mandalay-Amarapura-Mandalay (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the airport depart for Mandalay by flight (30 mins). Arrive Mandalay Airport and heading to Amarapura (45 mins drive) and first visit to 200 years old U Bein Teak Bridge, visit Mahagandayone Monastery where more than a thousand monks live and study. Continue visit traditional hand – woven silk workshop and drive back to Mandalay and transfer to the hotel. Afternoon visit, the famous Mahamuni Pagoda, the stone carving and later to see gold leaf being beaten into water thin pieces. Visit the Shwenandaw Monastery, excellent example of a traditional wooden building and Kuthodaw Pagoda, the world’s largest book, made of marble. Enjoy sunset at Mandalay Hill. Transfer to hotel and overnight at hotel.

Day 5 : Mandalay-Mingun-Ava-Sagaing-Mandalay (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Jetty and excursion by local boat to Mingun, upper river from Mandalay on the Ayeyarwaddy river (Approx : 1 hours). Visit Mingun Bell: the world largest uncracked bell, weighing 90 tons and continue Hsinbyume as well as unfinished Pagada built as one of the world’s largest cherish by King Bodaw Paya. Continue the boat trip to Royal Capital of Inwa (AVA) and visit to the impressive wooden monastery of Maha Aungmye Bonzan, built of brick and stucco as well as the Bargayar Monastery, famous for its ornate woodcarvings and teak posts (also known as Ok Kyaung). After visit, the journey continues Khaung Mu Daw Pagoda at Sagaing and the Sagaing hills, a retreat for Buddhist devotes. Drive back to Mandalay and transfer to the hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 6 : Mandalay-Hoho-Nyaung Shwe Jetty-Inle (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the Mandalay Airport departure for Heho by flight. (Approx: 30 mins). Arrive Heho and starts drive down into the valley to Nyaungshwe on the edge of the Inle Lake : famous for its unique leg rower; (Approx : 2? hours). Arrive Nyaungshwe and process to the Inle lake by local boat including Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, Floating Marketing Villages & Gardens, traditional handicrafts-silk weaving on wooden handlooms and a blacksmith shop. Transfer to the hotel and overnight at hotel.

Day 7 : Inle-Indein-Inle (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. First visit one of the local markets in the Inle Lake region (on market days by days). And then, boat trip to the Western Shore of Inle Lake to the beginning of a stair path leading to the hidden and unknown Inn Dein Pagoda complex. Return back to the hotel and leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 8 : Inle-Nyaung Shwe Jetty-Heho-Yangon (B)
Morning breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the Heho Airport depart for Yangon by schedule flight. (Approx: 1 ? hours flying). Arrive Yangon Airport and on the way to the hotel, visit National Museum and Karaweik Royal Barge (A Royal Floating Barge on the lake for the fantastic photo view) Afternoon, shopping to the Bogyoke Market(Scotts Market) with hundred of food, clothes, handicrafts and gems store. Visit to the China Town and Fruit Market to see evening life of Yangon. Transfer to the hotel and leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 9 : Yangon Departure (B)
Morning Breakfast at hotel. Free and leisure at hotel until departure. Transfer to the Yangon International Airport for the departure flight to your next destination.


 

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