Unforgotten Myanmar Tour – 10 Days

Unforgotten Myanmar Tour – 10 Days | Brief Itinerary:

Day 1: Arrive Yangon

Day 2: Yangon free – (B/-/-)

Day 3: Yangon – Flight to Inle Lake (B/-/-)

Day 4: Free day – Inle Lake (B/-/-)

Day 5: Inle Lake – Bagan by Daytime Bus (B/-/-)

Day 6: Bagan free day (B/-/-)

Day 7: Bagan – FREE DAY (B/-/-)

Day 8: Bagan – Cruise Trip to Mandalay (B/-/-)

Day 9: Mandalay (B/-/-)

Day 10: Mandalay – Departure (B/-/-)

Day 1: Arrive Yangon

On arrival, you will welcome by local guide and will take you to the hotel. Free time by yourself to explore around.

Overnight at hotel in Yangon.

Day 2: Myanmar Tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan & Mandalay: Yangon free – (B/-/-)

You will be free on your own to explore Yangon (No car & No Guide)

After having breakfast at hotel, you are picked up to enjoy haft-day circle train tour. This special half-day tour will immerse you into the everyday life of the Burmese capital. We board the local so-called “circle train”, which runs from Yangon’s main railway station in a circle around various areas of town. It is a slow mode of transport but lively and colorful and provides a behind-the-scenes look at life. You will travel in the local class on wooden benches.

Duration: approx. 3 hours

* Our services include:

+ English-speaking guide

+ private air-conditioned vehicle with driver

+ Entrance fees for Shwedagon Pagoda  

+ Snack and tea at local tea shop.

+ 1 water bottle

* Our services include:

+ English-speaking guide

+ Transfers to station by private air-conditioned vehicle with driver

+ Train ticket

+ 1 water bottle

Day 3: Yangon – Flight to Inle Lake (B/-/-)

After having breakfast at hotel, you’ll be at leisure till transferred without guide to Yangon airport for a morning departure flight to Heho (Note: The morning flights could be swapped amongst different local airlines such as Air KBZ 828, Golden Myanmar Airlines, Asian Wings Airways, Myanma 113, Myanma 109). Upon landing at the airport, you will get to Nyaung Shwe and from here, our car will pick up and drop to you to jetty to take your boat and transfer to your hotel for a check-in.

In the afternoon, you’ll be free on your own to experience the beauties surrounding your hotel in Inle Lake (Your own account).

Day 4: Myanmar Tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan & Mandalay : Free day Inle (B/-/-)

You will be free on your own to explore Inle Lake (No car & No Guide)

Option – Inle Lake Full day sightseeing :

After breakfast at hotel, you will enjoy fullday tour to Inle Lake. Upon reaching the edges of Inle Lake, board a private motorboat to head out to Inle Lake, one of Myanmar’s most spectacular sights. Pass villages built on stilts over the lake, inhabited by the local Intha people. 

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, but is more famous for its unique ‘jumping cats’ who jump through hoops in the air!  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 weaving village of Inpawkhone and a cheroot factory, where the typical Burmese cigars are made by hand.

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

 Our services include:

+ English-speaking guide

+ Private local boat

+ Entrance fees for the visits mentioned in the program only

Day 5: Inle Lake – Bagan by Daytime Bus (B/-/-)

After having breakfast at hotel, you’ll be transferred without guide to the bus station for a daytime bus leaving to Bagan. Normally the bus will take at least 7 – 8 hours to get to Bagan, en route you’ll have chances to experience the “window tours” with nice & peaceful coun trysides, villages, the locals…and there will be stopovers for you to enjoy coffee breaks, restrooms & taste the local foods (No Car & No Guide).

Upon arriving in Bagan, you’ll be welcome to your hotel for a check-in.

Day 6: Myanmar Tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan & Mandalay : Bagan free day (B/-/-)

You will be free on your own to explore Bagan (No car & No Guide)

* OPTIONAL: FULL DAY BAGAN TOUR

Bagan is a spectacular plain stretching away from the Ayeyarwaddy River, dotted with thousands of 800-year old temple ruins. SHWEZIGON PAYA: King Anawrahta started the construction of the Schwezigon Pagoda to enshrine some relicts of Buddha.

The construction was finished by his successor, King Kyansittha, between 1086 and1090. The stupa’s graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. GUBYAUKHYI TEMPLE at Wetkyi-Inn: This Temple was built in the early 13th Century and repaired in 1468. The great colorful painting about the previous life of Buddha and the distinguished architecture make this temple an interesting site for a visit.

ANANDA PAHTO: one of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. Thought to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha, this perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period.

GUBYAUKGYI TEMPLE at Myinkaba: Built in 1113 by Kyanzittha son Rajakumar, this temple is famous for its well-preserved Stuccos from the 12th century on the outside walls. The magnificent paintings date from the original construction of the temple and are considered to be the oldest original paintings in Bagan.

MANUHA TEMPLE: The Manuha Temple was built in 1059 by King Manuha, the King of Thaton, who was brought captive to Bagan by King Anawrahta. It enshrines the unusual combination of 3 seated and one reclining image Buddha. It is said that this temple was built by Manuha to express his displeasure about his captivity in Bagan.

SHWESANDAW PAYA: In 1057 King Anawrahta built this Pagoda following his conquest of Thaton. This is the first monument in Bagan, which features stairways leading up from the square bottom terraces to the round base of the Stupa.

LACQUERWARE WORKSHOP: the villages around Bagan are known for producing the finest lacquerware in Myanmar. Stop by one of the workshops and learn about the painstaking process of laquerware making and decoration. Enjoy a panoramic view of the sun setting over the plain of Bagan from one of the pagoda platforms.

* Our services include:

+ English-speaking guide

+ Full day excursion with private air-conditioned vehicle with driver

+ Entrance fees for the visits mentioned in the program

Day 7: Bagan – FREE DAY (B/-/-)

You will be free on your own to explore Bagan  (No car & No Guide)

OPTIONAL – FULL DAY MOUNT POPA & SALAY TOUR :

Breakfast at hotel. A full-day trip from Bagan to Mount Popa, an extinct volcano with a height of 1518 m, about 48 km south east of Bagan.Mount Popa has played and important role in Myanmar culture, religion and history since earliest times.

Its shrine is dedicated to the worship of the 37 Nats, the Burmese ancient animist spirits. The view over the Myingyan Plain from the top of the Popa-Taung Kalat volcanic peak is impressive (the climb is optional!). Lunch at the restaurant of Mt Popa Resort

Continue in direction of Salay, known today as an important center of Buddhism with many living monasteries. Throughout its past, Salay created its own unique style of Bagan era architecture and you can see one of the nicest and oldest wooden monastery halls at Yok Sone Kyaung monastery.

Transfer back to Bagan in the afternoon.

* Our services include:

+ English-speaking guide

+ Transfers and excursion with private air-conditioned vehicle with driver

+ 1 lunch at Popa Mountain Resort

+ Entrance fees for the visits mentioned in the program

Bagan | Flight in a hot air balloons over Bagan (early morning)
Take off in a hot air balloon to drift peacefully over the plain of Bagan. Upon landing, passengers are served champagne. Total flight time is 45 minutes.
Note: 
– Guide is not included.
–  Balloon not operate from Apr to Sep
– Include transfer to/from hotel (SIC)
Price:   

•  USD 355  per person (Oriental Ballooning Green)
• USD 335  per person (Red)

Day 8: Myanmar Tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan & Mandalay : Bagan – Cruise Trip to Mandalay (B/-/-)

In this morning, you must check out much earlier than normal days because you need to be at the wharf before 06:00 AM to get on the cruise (Note: Hotel might arrange the breakfast boxes for you to take away).

Normally, the cruise departs at 06:00 from Bagan and arrives Mandalay at 17:00 and here is truly a long cruise trip on the legendary Irrawaddy River, however, the benefits on this journey is to relax on deck to experience the authentic & beautiful scenes in the early morning.

Passengers fitting at the back of the boat in outdoor deck or staying sheltered / sleeping up front takes special chances to witness small fishing settlements on the riverside, buffalo ploughing on fields, kids playing on grounds, small huts and wooden fishing boats even women trekking with agriculture bulks balanced on their heads

Upon getting to the harbor in Mandalay, you’ll be welcome then escorted to your hotel for a check-in

Overnight at hotel in Mandalay.

Day 9: Mandalay (B/-/-)

 The rest of time, you will be free on your own to explore Mandalay (No car & No Guide)

* OPTIONAL: FULL DAY MANDALAY CITY TOUR

The last capital of royal Burma, Mandalay is still one of the largest cities in Myanmar, and a cultural and spiritual center. Neighboring Sagaing is home to over sixty percent of the country’s monks, while the artisans of Mandalay continue to turn out the finest crafts in Myanmar. In the morning, head to MAHAMUNI PAYA.

The Mahamuni image enshrined here is perhaps the most venerated image in Myanmar, covered in over 15 cm of gold leaf. Worshippers flock daily to the shrine at four in the morning to observe the unique face-washing ceremony. Enroute to the pagoda, stop to observe the laborious process of GOLD-LEAF BEATING, where gold is painstakingly hammered into tissue-thin squares.

Before breaking for lunch, visit a CRAFT WORKSHOP specializing in one of the arts for which the city is famous: bronze-casting, marble-carving, wood-carving, or puppetry. The afternoon’s tour includes some of the city’s most interesting temples and palaces. Begin at SHWENANDAW KYAUNG, or the Golden Teak Monastery.

Built entirely of golden teak, this intricately carved wooden monastery was once part of the Mandalay Palace, used as private apartments by King Mindon and his chief queen. Continue to KYAUKTAWGYI PAYA, famous for its monumental seated Buddha, carved from a single block of marble, and the elegant SANDAMUNI PAYA.

Finally, visit KUTHODAW PAYA, known also as the world s biggest book. Around the central stupa are miniature pavilions, each housing a slab of marble. Numbering altogether 729, these slabs are inscribed with the entire Tripitkata, or Buddhist scriptures. The final stop is at Shwe Kyin Old Monastery, an old monastery at the base of Mandalay Hill which was built during the period of King Mindon.

Visit Mandalay Hill and take an easy climb up sheltered steps to experience panoramic views over the palace, Mandalay and the paya-studded countryside. The famous hermit monk, U Khanti, is credited with inspiring the construction of many of the buildings on and around the hill in the years after the founding of the city.

Our services include:

• English-speaking guide
• Full day visit with private air-conditioned vehicle with driver
• Entrance fees for the visits mentioned in the program

* Our services include:

• + English-speaking guide
• + Full day visit with private air-conditioned vehicle with driver
• + Entrance fees for the visits mentioned in the program

Day 10: Myanmar Tour to Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan & Mandalay: Mandalay – Departure (B/-/-)

After having breakfast at hotel.
You’ll be at leisure till picked up at your hotel then transferred to Mandalay airport for a departure flight.

***End of Service***

HOTEL ADDRESS:

YANGON

Grand United Hotel Ahlone (Superior room)

http://www.hotelgrandunited.com/about_hgu_al.php

No. 35, Min Ye Kyaw Swar Road (Corner of Hnin Si Gone Road), Ahlone Township, Yangon

Tel: +95-1-218061~64, 0973048864,

http://www.hotelgrandunited.com/contact-us.php 

INLE LAKE

Paramount Inle Resort Inle Lake (Superior Teak room) 

http://www.paramountinleresort.com/

Add: Ngaphechaung Village, Inle Lake, Myanmar (Miến Điện)

Tel:+95 81 29 477.

BAGAN

Bagan Thande Hotel (Superior Bungalow)

http://www.thandehotel.com/bagan/

MANDALAY

Sunset Palace View Hotel (Bagan Lodge Hotel Group) –  Deluxe room

https://www.booking.com/hotel/mm/sunset-palace-view.html

Remark: 

• All different prices are based on Group of 2 pax
• These prices are not valid during the time of Christmas, Westerner New Year and Public Holidays. Please contact us for precise rate of fixed traveling date.

Include

• 9 night accommodation on half-twin room basis with daily breakfast / subject to the availability
• English speaking station guide for one transfer only in all cities on their first arrival
• Separate vehicles for transfers in/out in each cities with private air-conditioned with drivers
• Private boat transfer in/out in Inle Lake
• Local ferry boat from Bagan to Mandalay by boat
• Bus tickets for Bagan to Heho.

Exclude

• International ticket to/from Yangon
• Entrance fee for visit mention in program
• Meals other than mentioned (B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)
• Visa arrangements for Myanmar
• Visits nom
• Drinks and personal expenses
• Domestic flight
• Tips and porters at the hotels
• International departure Airport Tax Yangon (subject to change according to the Government rule)
• Any other items not mentioned
• Optional tours