MYM01: ESSENTIAL MYANMAR(6D5N)

On arrival at Yangon Airport, our guide will pick you up and transfer you to the hotel for checking-in before we start our half-day tour in Yangon.

Visit the 2,600 years old Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese can be seen from almost anywhere in Yangon.

You will learn about the full history of the pagoda, the daily life of all people living in its immediate surroundings and a deeper insight in the Buddhist religion and how the spiritual belief is mixed with the belief in nats – the Myanmar spirits.

Tour finishes at your hotel and you will have your free time at leisure.

No meal included, night stay at Yangon.

After breakfast, you are free at leisure until our driver come and transfer you to airport for domestic flight to Bagan city (1,5h flight) Arrival airport, you are transferred to Bagan ancient town by private car & guide.

Bagan is really quiet, it’s a beautiful area, and the temples here are often completely deserted. Your experienced guide through Bagan will show you the best-known temples of the area. Start the day climbing a pagoda to get a first impressive view over the whole area. From here you continue to move to the other amazing temples that have been here for hundreds of years. Places like the Ananda, Dhammayangyi, Sulamani, and Thatbyinnyu will certainly impress you.

Evening climb Pyathagyi pagoda or one of the temples for sunset.

Transfer to your hotel in Bagan and spend the overnight stay . Lunch and dinner not included.

Breakfast at your hotel.

You begin your day at Nyaung U market – a busy market in New Bagan when people from all around town come and buy their vegetables, herbs, meat and other ingredients for dinner. The guide will give an assignment to go and buy and taste 3 different kind snacks typical for the region.

Visit Taungbi village where you visit the old wooden monastery built for royalty and two temples that are not well known but certainly worth a visit. The guide will explain to you the reason why so many pagodas were built here.

Evening boat tour on the Ayeyarwaddy River for sunset.

Lunch and dinner not included, night stay at Bagan.

After breakfast, get transfered to airport for domestic flight to Heho. Flight time is approximately 1hour. Meet your driver for an airport transfer to Inle Lake.

Surrounding and on the lake itself the Intha people have been living for many centuries in villages built entirely on stilts.

Embark on a private motorboat around the lake to discover its natural beauty, visit the floating gardens.

You certainly also visit a local cheroot factory (where the Burmese cigars are made), Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, Intha Heritage house.

Lunch and dinner not included, night stay at Inle Lake.

After breakfast, you’ll get transfered to airport for flight back to Yangon.

Transfer to the hotel for checking-in before we start our afternoon sightseeing with visit to Bogyoke market, formally known as Scott Market, a sprawling 75 year old shopping complex noted for its variety of handicrafts and other items which provide an excellent opportunity for a shopping spree.

Chaukhtatgyi Reclining Image, and then we make a short stop at the Royal Lake where we can admire the view of the Karaweik Hall overlooking this scenic lake.

Afterwards, Then, the tour leads along Strand Road, into Mahabandoola Street, through Indiantown and Chinatown, past Sule Pagoda with its golden chedi, which makes a useful landmark in downtown Yangon.

Tour finishes at hotel and you are free for explorer the city.

Lunch and dinner not included, night stay at Yangon.

DAY 6: YANGON DEPARTURE
Breakfast at your hotel.
You have your free time of leisure until check-out for transferring to airport for your flight out.
See you again!

HAVE A GREAT TRIP!