Myanmar Family with Nature & Culture

Upon arrival at Yangon International Airport welcome by our local guide and transfer to your Hotel. Sightseeing starts with Yangon Colonial Style city center. Heading to Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda to see a huge reclining Buddha image. Complete your first day in Myanmar with an extended visit to one of the world’s most spectacular monuments, the Shwedagon Pagoda: its golden stupa is the ‘heart’ of Myanmar. The pagoda is believed 2,500 years old and the central stupa is surrounded by dozens of intricately decorated buildings and statues. There are always many Myanmar people praying and making an offering at Pagoda. Enjoy sunset at Pagoda. Drive back to the hotel and free time at your leisure. Overnight in Yangon.
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Accommodation: Hotel in Yangon

Check out at the hotel this morning and transfer to the airport. Depart for Bagan by a domestic flight (scheduled flight) (1 hour 20 minutes flying). Arrive Nyaung – U Airport, first visit to Nyaung-Oo morning Market to see people ways of life. The day with visits to the most significant pagodas and temples of Bagan including Shwezigon Pagoda built by King Anawrahta in the early 11th as a religious shrine. Visit Ananda Temple a whitewashed masterpiece of Mon architecture with four standing Buddhas, and the adjacent brick monastery with the beautiful well – preserved 18th-century murals. Visit Thatbinnyu Temple know as “temples of omniscience” and dating from 1144.

Head to the Sulamani temple. Transfer to the hotel and leisure. Afternoon, visit one of Myanmar’s most treasured handicrafts, a lacquerware home Industry: nearby Myingabar village. Continue Damayangyi Temple (the massive temple in Bagan). An experience by local Horse–cartway to Pyitthagyi Temple (15 mins). Transfer to the hotel. Overnight in Bagan.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

Breakfast at the hotel. This morning, your guide will pick you up to visit Min Nan Thu Village, the traditional village which is famous for its hand weaving and cheroot making. After that, make your way to Payarthonezu Temple, the complex of three pagodas displaying magnificent mural painting dating back to the 13th century.

In the afternoon, make your way to the jetty to get on a scenic boat trip to admire the majestic sunset on the river. Sit back and sipping a glass of Myanmar beer with sweet snacks and enjoy the view. Overnight in Bagan.
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: Overnight at Bagan

Breakfast at the hotel. Check–out at the hotel and transfer to the airport. Depart for Mandalay by a morning domestic flight, schedules flight ) ( 30 mins flying). Arrive at Mandalay International Airport. First, excursion to Amarapura: Maha Gandayone Monastery – home to several thousand young monks where you can watch the whole monastery having their meal silently, 200 years old U Bein teak bridge built in 1728 at the time when Amarapura was Royal capital. Visit traditional hand-woven silk workshop teak posts.

Afternoon excursion coach to Sagaing bypassing Ava Bridge. We do sightseeing for its famous Pagodas. Enjoy the panoramic view at the top of the hill. Visit Silversmith & Kaunghmudaw Pagoda. Drive to Mandalay and free time at your leisure. Overnight in Mandalay.
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel in Mandalay.

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Jetty and Excursion by boat on the Ayeyarwaddy River to Mingun about a 1-hour upper river from Mandalay. Visit Mingun Bell: the world’s largest un-cracked bell, weighing 90 tons and continue Hsinbyume Temple as well as unfinished Pagoda built as one of the world’s largest cherish by king Bodaw Paya by traditional styled bullock – cart. After sightseeing sail back to Mandalay. Head to the Royal Palace also known as Former Royal Palace, which was once king Mindon’s home.

Continue will experience the sights and sounds of Mandalay including one of the most revered religious images in Myanmar, the Mahamuni Pagoda. Stop to see stone carving and later to see gold leaf being beaten into wafer-thin pieces. Visit the Shwenandaw Monastery, an excellent example of a traditional wooden building and Kuthodaw Pagoda, the world’s largest book made of marble. Enjoy spectacular views at sunset from Mandalay Hill there are interesting glass-studded temples. Enjoy sunset at Mandalay Hill. Transfer to the hotel. Free and leisure. Overnight in Mandalay.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Mandalay

Breakfast at the hotel. Check–out at the hotel and transfer to the airport. Depart for Heho by a morning domestic flight, schedules flight) (30 mins flying). Then drive to Pindaya (Approx: 2 hours) through the Shan Plateau, through fields of mountain rice. Visit magnificent Pindaya caves set in a limestone ridge overlooking a picturesque lake where thousands of different types of Buddha images are a display in the various cave chambers.

Continue to visit some local houses where families produce Shan paper and parasols. Drive to Kalaw (1&1/2 hrs ) – a popular hill station in the British days. You can enjoy cozy scenes along the way. Check in to your hotel. Overnight in Kalaw.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Kalaw

Breakfast at the hotel. Visit the colorful market to see people’s ways of life. Then visit Christ the King Church – a brick Catholic Church and Hnee Paya – features a gold lacquered bamboo Buddha image. Drive to Nyaungshwe on the edge of the Inle Lake: famous for its unique leg rower (2 & ½ hrs drive). Arrive Nyaung Shwe and proceed to Inle Lake by local boat and Check-in at the hotel.

An excursion by boat on Inle Lake, heading to the middle of Inle lake including Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda the holiest religious site in Southern Shan State. Floating Villages & Gardens where fruit and vegetables are grown. See traditional handicrafts – silk weaving on wooden handlooms and a blacksmith shop. Stop at Ngaphechaung Monastery which is famous for its ( Jumping – Cats Show). Overnight in Inle.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Inle Lake

Breakfast at the hotel. An excursion by boat on Inle Lake will include sights of the famous leg rowers typical floating gardens, local methods of fishing, village life, and magnificent sceneries. Visit one of the local markets in the Inle lake region (on market days by days). And then, an excursion by boat 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. Free and leisure at the hotel. Overnight in Inle.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Inle Lake

Morning breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the Heho airport departs for Yangon by scheduled flight. (Approx: 1 ½ hr flying) and arrive Yangon airport, on the way to Hotel, visit Mahapasana Cave (if open) where Sixth Buddhist Synod was held, Kaba Aye Pagoda (World Peace Pagoda) and Karaweik Royal Barge ( A royal floating Barge on a lake for the fantastic photo view). Check in to your hotel.

Afternoon shopping to the Bogyoke Market (Scott market) with hundreds of food, clothes, handicrafts and gems store. (Note: the market is closed on Mondays). Visit China Town & Fruit market to see the evening life of Yangon. Transfer to the hotel and leisure. Overnight in Yangon.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Yangon

Today should be free at leisure for your own relaxation or going shopping around. Overnight in Yangon.
Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Yangon

Breakfast at the hotel. Leisure on your own time and wait till you are picked up at the hotel & transferred to the airport for your onward international flight to another country or back home. Trip ends.
Meal: Breakfast

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