MYM03: BURMA SIGNATURE(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 tour in Yangon.

This includes magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda, one of Myanmar’s most sacred Buddhist sites and a pivotal force in Yangon daily life.

In the evening, you will join the throng of pilgrims at a special oil lamp lighting ceremony, an ancient and highly symbolic Buddhist ritual.

Observe red-robed monks chant ancient Pali scriptures as more than a thousand oil lamps are lit around the gilded pagoda. Our guide explains the meaning behind the chants, helping you understand the ritual. A truly awe-inspiring spiritual experience.

Lunch and dinner not included, night stay at Yangon.

After breakfast, we spend our day discover Yangon City – a sprawling city with a relatively small downtown area including several markets, colonial buildings, the Yangon River and a very green area with tree-lined streets and several lakes.

Visit the Sule Pagoda built before the Shwedagon Pagoda during the time of the Buddha, making it more than 2,600 years old. Next, stroll around the colonial downtown for an insight into excellent examples of the bygone era of Yangon. Proceed to the harbor where you will visit one of the colorful local markets.

The reclining Buddha will be followed just before taking a tasteful lunch of typical dishes from tribes from all over the country like Kachin, Shan and Rakhine.

A local market will lead us to a small station where we take the famous circular train to bring us right behind Bogyoke Aung San market before heading back to your hotel.

Dinner not included, night stay at Yangon.

Breakfast at your hotel before our driver comes pick you up and transfer to airport for flight to Bagan.

On arrival, our guide will take you visit the busy market in New Bagan, a very lively affair when people from all around town come and buy their vegetables, herbs, meat and other ingredients for the day.

Your guide will give an assignment to go and buy and taste 3 different kind snacks typical for the region. There also is extra time reserved to buy some souvenirs.

We continue to Taungbi village where we visit the old wooden monastery built for royalty and two temples that are not well known but certainly worth a visit. Around 16.00 pm we continue the tour by horse cart to Pyathagyi pagoda for sunset with some refreshing drinks served.

Lunch and dinner not included, night stay at Bagan.

After breakfast, our guide will pick you up for the temples visit to : Shwesandaw – a graceful white pyramid-style pagoda with steps leading past five terraces to the circular stupa top, the imposing Ananda houses thousands of stone images inside, Sulamani known as crowning jewel, and Dhammayangyi – the largest of all the temples in Bagan.

After lunch at local restaurant, we will transfer you to airport for flight to Heho.
On arrival, drop-off at hotel in Inle Lake .

Overnight in Inle Lake.

Breakfast is served at hotel.

We will start our day spending time learning about the Inle Lake – the second largest freshwater lake in Myanmar.
We get on a private motorboat for a full-day exploring the lake.

Discover its natural beauty, visit the floating gardens, see some of the famous leg rowers, and have a cup of tea at a local family’s house.

Around the lake area, a local market serving most common daily needs is held in different villages on a 5-day rotating schedule. You will call on to this market frequented by Shan and PaO people to explore the local’s daily life.
Up next, stop by a local cheroot factory where the Burmese cigars are made, cruise through floating tomato gardens, explore Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda which houses five gilded Buddha images and finally see Inthar Heritage House where the Burmese cats are bred.

Overnight in Inle Lake.

DAY 6: INLE LAKE – YANGON DEPARTURE
Breakfast at your hotel.
You have your free time of leisure until check-out for transferring to airport for your to Yangon then connect your flight back home/ stay in Yangon.

HAVE A GREAT TRIP!