DAY 03. VISIT INDEIN VILLAGE/ HEHO - MANDALAY (Breakfast/Lunch)
❱ After early breakfast, explore the morning market around Inle Lake offers a good opportunity to meet many different local tribes. Continue to the western banks of the lake and travel down a small canal to Indein– a Pa-Oh village which is known for its stupa-covered hill with 1,054 stupas which were mostly constructed between the 17th and the 18th centuries. Spend time exploring Indein on foot, strolling around the village, visiting a local school and making your way to the top of the hill where you can wander amid the weather-beaten stupas and enjoy magnificent views of the lake below.
❱ In the afternoon transfer by road to Heho airport and take a short flight to Mandalay.
❱ Stay overnight in Mandalay.
DAY 04. MANDALAY & MINGUN (Breakfast/Lunch)
❱ After breakfast, transfer to the jetty for a pleasant boat ride upriver to Mingun. Upon arrival, explore the ruins of the vast Mingun Pagoda. Continue to the beautiful Hsinbyume Paya and the Mingun Bell, weighting 87 tons and being the world’s largest intact bronze bell. Sail back to Mandalay.
❱ Continue visit to the Mandalay Palace, Shwenandaw Monastery– noted for its exquisite woodcarvings, gold leaf beating workshop and Kuthodaw Pagoda – known for containing the world’s largest book. Conclude the tour by visiting Mandalay Hill to watch the sunset and the panoramic view of the city.
❱ Overnight in Mandalay
DAY 05. AMARAPURA VISIT. MANDALAY TO BAGAN BY CAR. E (Breakfast/Lunch)
❱ This morning we will drive to Amarapura, known as the City of Immortality. Visit Mahagandaryone Monastery which is the best place to experience the daily lives of the monks and walk over the U Bein, the longest teakwood Bridge in the world. After lunch, leave Mandalay and 4 hours drive to Bagan.
❱ Arrive Bagan in the late afternoon and check in hotel.
❱ Stay overnight in Bagan.
DAY 06. SIGHTSEEING IN BAGAN (Meal on Board/Breakfast/Dinner)
❱ Today is the comprehensive tour of Bagan - the beautiful ancient city, one of Myanmar’s premier historical and cultural centres, home to more than 2,000 temples and pagodas.!
❱ Tour includes shrines such as Ananda, Htilominlo, Thatbyinnyu, Dhammayangyi, Sulamani, and Shwezigon Pagoda, plus secular sights such as Nyaung U market and traditional workshops.
❱ Complete the day by watching an unforgettable sunset over the plains from Nyaung Lat Phet Hill. Dinner with enjoying Puppet Show.
❱ Stay overnight in Bagan.
DAY 07. RETURN TO YANGON AND DEPARTURE (Meal on Board/Breakfast)
❱ If time permits, continue your Bagan exploration with a mix of villages, the less visited temples, and landscapes. Transfer to airport. Fly back to Yangon and connect your departure flight.
DAY 1 ARRIVAL AND EXPLORE YANGON (Dinner)
❱ Mingalar Bar, you will be welcomed by our Guide at Airport and transferred to hotel.
❱ Start your Sightseeing of Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon. City tour includes the vibrant downtown area with its colonial-era buildings; the massive reclining Buddha at Kyaukhtatgyi Pagoda; Kandawgyi Park; the royal floating barge named Karaweik Palace; Bogyoke(Scott) Market and the world-famous golden stupa, Shwedagon Pagoda.
❱ Overnight in Yangon
DAY 2 YANGON TO HEHO BY FLIGHT. VISIT INLE LAKE (Breakfast/Lunch)
❱ After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the flight to Heho. Upon arrival at Heho, drive to Inle Lake.
❱ Full-day tour of beautiful Inle Lake which is referred as the Venice of Asia, featuring stilt houses and villages, floating gardens, fishermen using ancient techniques such as leg-rowing, and, on the shores, workshops of traditional artisans, e.g. weavers and cigar-makers. We will visit Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, Nga Phe Chaung Monastery, Floating Garden and the local family workshops which feature silversmiths, cheroot making, and weaving by the ‘Ring-neck ladies’.
❱ Stay overnight in Inle Lake