Highlights Tour Myanmar 10 Days

Flight: International flight on your own arrangment or on requests.

Meals: Dinner

Arrive Yangon International Airport by late morning flight, you will meet your tour guide after clearing immigration and customs control at Airport. Transfer to the hotel for check in.

In the evening, take a visit to Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the world’s most spectacular religious monuments, and the golden dome Pagoda is the place to see the local ways of life and belief, as well as visitors can watch the world’s go by.

Dinner at local restaurant.

Overnight  Yangon.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at Hotel.  

Morning, visit the magnificent reclining Buddha at Chauk Htat Gyi, and nearSule Pagoda, it is  at the centre of the town with Mahabandoola Garden on one side and the surrounding with interesting historical buildings of government and law courts.

In the afternoon, you will find all the souvenirs on your list at bustling Bogyoke Market (formerly Scott’s), which is closed on Monday.

Transfer to Yangon Domestic Airport for flight to Mandalay. The last capital of Myanmar Kingdom before the annexation of British in 1885. The period of kingdom was very short, but the name Mandalay become well known by “Rudyard Kipling”. The royal palace wall surrounded by the moat is one of the great things to see and it has been re-created after 1945, by 2nd War World.  

Upon arrival, transfer to the hotel for check in.

Overnight at Mandalay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at hotel.

We’ll drive former capitals of Amarapura and visit U Pain Bridge, the whole bridge done with entire wood.  After that , we will visit Mahagandayon Monastery is 11 kilometers from Mandalay, in the former Burmese capital of Amarapura. Around 10 in the morning over 1000 monks who live in the monastery come out to receive food from donors. Everything is planned, the monks are standing in 2 rows, volunteers distribute the food, the dining rooms are filled and they eat at the same time.

After a short break in the afternoon, comprehensive sightseeing in Mandalay includes Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung (Golden Palace monastery), a special wooden building built by Royal family and Kuthodaw Pagoda (known as the world’s largest book), the golden stupa surrounded by 729 marble slabs engraved with Buddhist scriptures. Enjoy a sunset from Mandalay Hill (for the group up to 6pax, we need to change with local truck to drive up to the top).

Overnight at Mandalay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

This morning enjoy boat excursion (one hour each way) up the Ayeyarwaddy River to Mingun, site of the world's largest intact bronze bell, 3.7 meters high and weighing 87 tons. Also visit the huge but unfinished Mingun Paya (built with the intention of being the world's biggest pagoda) and the beautiful Hsinphyushin Paya.

Boat sails to Sagaing and lunch will be served on board.

Visit a nunnery to observe everyday life of Buddhist nuns. Proceed to Ava, the capital from 14th to 18th centuries. Explore by horse cart to Bagaya Monastery and the remains of the Royal Palace and fort. Take a nice drive to Amarapura to have a nice view and short walk on 200 years old teak block wooden U Bein Bridge.

Watch sunset over U Bein Bridge.

Overnight Mandalay.

Meals:Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at hotel

Transfer service include from hotel to Mandalay jetty.

Take day cruise to Bagan (Lunch included on boat, You can have sunburn offer the spectacular views of historical monuments and the ways of local livings along the famous Irrawaddy River.

Upon arrival to bagan, transfer service include to hotel.

Stay overnight at hotel in Bagan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at Hotel.  Today you begin with a visit to Nyaung Oo Market.

You begin your excursion with a visit to Shwezigon Pagoda, Bagan’s important golden stupas where we can look for the spirit house with 37 ‘nats’. Continue to visit a diverse selection of pagodas and temples such as Kyansittha cave temple, 12th century frescoes along the corridors and Ku Byauk Gyi temple with murals of jataka scenes and Htilominlo, one of the biggest temples with murals and friezes. Then, Ananda Temple with four huge standing-Buddha images and a lot of seated figures were decorated around the wall of the interior corridors.

In the afternoon, visit Dhammayangyi, a massive temple from 12th century with it’s own architecture and temple liked Pyramid is outstanding among the other structures.

Continue to Thatbyinnyu, known as the ‘temple of omniscience’, dating from 12th century and it is a nice place for photo stop. After that, travel on dirt roads by horse carriage which gives you to pass through areas not easily accessed by car or bus (car or bus will be stand by if you are not taking horse carriage). Enjoy Sunset at one of the high temple you climb up and see the magnificent view to enjoy your visit in Bagan.

Overnight Bagan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at hotel.

Today drive to Mount Popa, an extinct volcano over 1,500m high, about 48km south east of Bagan. Mount Popa has played an important role in Myanmar culture, religion and history since the earliest times. Its shrine is dedicated to the worship of the 37 Nats, the Burmese ancient animist spirits.

Lunch at the Popa mountain resort.

After lunch, we will head to Pindya. The road to Pindaya winds over the rolling hills of the Shan plateau through colorful mustard and whet field.

Overnight in Pindaya .

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,

Breakfast at hotel.

Sightseeing in Pindaya, visit for Pindaya cave, known to the world as the home of the countless Buddha Images. Explore around wonder of the mystery cave and nearby Pa O traditional paper umbrella making process.

We will drive to Nyaung Shwe, take boat ride to Inle.

Observe the leg-rowing fishermen and see their floating gardens built up from strips of water hyacinth and mud and anchored to the bottom with bamboo poles. Visit Nga Hpe Chaung Monastery, which houses dozens of Shan Buddha Images. Continue to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the lake’s main sanctuary, which contains five sacred Buddha images covered in gold leaf.  

Explore the local crafts of Inle Lake with a stop at the cheroot factory, where the typical Burmese cigars are made by hand.

We can also visit a local silk weaving ‘factory’ which sits on stilts on the lake and where they still use old style hand looms.  

If time permits, there may be time to enjoy a short walk through one of the lakeside villages.

Overnight Inle

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you explore by boat to one of the market on the lake. The colorful market makes a five-day circuit around the villages on and near the lake. The daily market (except on new and full moon days) is frequented by lake inhabitants and surrounding hill tribes. Then, you continue down a small long canal leading to the Pa-O village of Indein, at the western part of the lake. The ride is one of the most scenic boat tours on Inle lake. (30mins-45mins Walking from the jetty where you off from the boat) Here, you will take the covered stairway to the ancient stupas, where you can also walk through in to bamboo forest with nature and local atmosphere.

In the evening, transfer to Heho Airport for domestic flight back to Yangon.

Upon arrival, transfer to Hotel with lovely Sunset .  

Overnight Yangon.

Breakfast at hotel .  Morning at your leisure, car and guide at your disposal till departure to international onward flight.