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Tour Program 9
8 DAYS/ 7 NIGHTS (YANGON-BAGAN-MANDALAY-TAUNGGYI-PINDAYA-KALAW-YANGON)
Day.01 : Yangon
Arrive at Yangon Airport by flight. Welcome by a tour
guide and transfer to Hotel.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight
in Yangon.
Day.02 : Yangon - Bagan
Breakfast at the Hotel.
Leave Yangon for Bagan by
domestic flight. On arrival transfer to Hotel and proceed for sightseeing,
starting, with busy local market and continuing with visits to a diverse
selection of the most important pagodas and temples. Included are
SHWEZIGON PAGODA, built by King ANAWRAHTA in the early 11th century as a
religious shrine; KU BYAUK GYI, a temple with exquisite murals of Jataka
scenes; ANANDA TEMPLE, with four huge standing Buddha images and numerous
seated figures in niches around the galleried interior.
Lunch at local
restaurant.
After lunch, continue sightseeing, for visit to SHWESANDAW
PAGODA with five terraces, built in 1057; MANUHA TEMPLE from 1059, in the
Mon style; and NAPAYA TEMPLE, said to have once been the Palace of King
Manuha and Watch sunset over the AYEYARWADDY RIVER form BUPAYA
PAGODA.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Bagan.
Day.03 : Bagan - Mandalay
Breakfast at the Hotel.
After breakfast, transfer to
airport for domestic flight to MANDALAY.
After transfer and hotel
check-in proceed on a comprehensive sightseeing tour, before and after
lunch.
Highlights include visit to MANDALAY HILL, for a panoramic view
of the city; SHWENAN DAW KYAUNG or GOLDEN PALACE MONASTERY, a superb
example of traditional wooden building; KUTHODAW PAGODA, known as the
world’s largest book from its 720 marble slabs engraved with Buddhist
scriptures; MAHAMUNI PAGODA, with its spectacular Buddha image covered in
thick layers of gold leaf. a visit is also make to a riverside jetty where
massive teak logs are moved by buffalo power and the tour continues to
craftsmen’s workshop to see kalaga tapestries being created.
Dinner at
local restaurant and overnight in Mandalay.
Day. 04 : Amarapura - Sagaing
Breakfast at the Hotel.
After breakfast, excursion to
AMARAPURA Situated about 11km south of Mandalay, Amarapura is an ancient
capital of the Konbaung Dynasty. There are several interesting sighs to be
seen. Amarapura was also the site for the first British embassy in Myanmar
in 1795. Amarapura is noted for silk and cotton weaving and bronze
casting.
Lunch at local restaurant.
Continue to SAGAING 21km
south-west of Mandalay on the west bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River. Sagaing
is known as a mediation center. Myanmars, all over the country would visit
Sagaing for the purpose of religious retreat, where over 600 monasteries
for monks and nuns are located for Buddhist studies and meditation. And at
the near by village of Ywahtaung you can see silver workers producing
bowls and other silver items by traditional methods.
Dinner at local
restaurant and overnight in Mandalay.
Day.05 : Mandalay - Heho- Taunggyi
Breakfast at the Hotel.
After breakfast, a fullday
excursion by boat on Inle Lake will include sights of the famous
leg-rowers, typical floating gardens, local methods of fishing and village
life. Visits are made to PHAUNGDAW OO PAGODA.
Lunch at local
restaurant.
Continue to the weaving vill age of inpawkhon and floating
market.
Continue by road to TAUNGGYI, capital of Shan State, for hotel
check-in.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Inle.
Day.06 : Pindaya - Kalaw
Breakfast at the Hotel.
After breakfast, continue
excursion by road (100km) to small town of PINDAYA.
Lunch at local
restaurant.
After lunch, sightseeing highlights include the scenic lake
and PINDAYA CAVES, unique for the thousands of Buddha images placed there
by pilgrims over many centuries. Continue to hill station of
KALAW.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Kalaw.
Day.07 : Kalaw - Heho - Yangon
Breakfast at the Hotel.
After breakfast, transfer to
airport for domestic flight to Yangon.
Lunch at local restaurant.
After lunch, Yangon sightseeing to SHWEDAGON PAGODA world famous
golden stupa. The golden dome rises 98 meters above its base and is
covered with 60tons of pure gold. CHAUK HTATKYI PAGODA, a colossal
reclining Buddha. Proceed to BOGYOKE (SCOTT) market, with time to browse
among the hundreds of stalls for souvenir bargain and SULE PAGODA, a
beautiful octagonal golden stupa, dating back over 2,000 years.
Dinner
at local restaurant and overnight in Yangon.
Day.08 : Yangon
Breakfast at the Hotel.
Leave for airport to take the
departure flight.
