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Tour
code : SMT–OBM 6
Yangon – Bago - Mandalay – Bagan
6
days / 5 nights
(B)
= Breakfast ; (L) = Lunch ; (D) = Dinner
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Day 1 : ARRIVE YANGON
Arrival at Yangon airport , visa formality - Welcome by your Tourguide and
transfer to hotel. After lunch in a local restaurant, PM tour through Yangon’s colonial-style city center. Visit Sule
pagoda, dating back over 2,000 years ago; the magnificent reclining
Buddha at Chauk Htat Gyi; the Karaweik Hall,.
Dinner and overnight in Yangon
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Day 2 : YANGON – MANDALAY
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After breakfast at hotel , transfer
to the airport for morning flight to
Mandalay.
Upon arrival , , excursion to Amarapura, 15 km from Mandalay
to visit Mahagandayon Monastery where more than a thousand monks
live and study. You will have the
opportunity to observe the monks having their last meal of the day in total
silence. Continue to 200-year-old U Bein teak bridge, built in
1782 at the time when Amarapura was Royal capital. Since then it is noted
for silk- and cotton weaving. Visit a traditional hand-woven silk workshop.
Visit The Bagaya Monastery with an interesting collection of
Buddha statues. After lunch you will experience the sights and sounds of
Mandalay including one of the most revered religious monuments in Myanmar, the
Mahamuni Pagoda; the Shwe Inbin Monastery; the
Golden Palace Monastery, a superb example of a traditional wooden
building and Kuthodaw Pagoda the world’s largest book, made of marble.
Visit a Kalaga tapestries craftsmen’s shop and viewing the sunset on
Madalay hill. Dinner and overnight in Mandalay
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Day 3 : MANDALAY - BAGAN
After early breakfast, drive by road through varied
agricultural landscapes to BAGAN. Lunch at a local restaurant en route then
continues to Mount
Popa, an
extinct volcano with spectacular views. Its shrine is dedicated to animist
spirits known as “nats” and you will have time to climb the 777 steps to
the shrine at the top of the peak. After a scenic drive and a stop at one
of the quaint villages you will arrive in Bagan right in time to watch the
sunset from well chosen temple over the famous Ayeyarwaddy river and
the magnificent plain of pagodas and temples. Dinner and overnight in Bagan
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Day 4 : BAGAN
Your day will begin early with a nostalgic horse cart ride
(if available) to the Ywa Haung
Gyi Temple
to celebrate the rise of dawn. Return to the hotel for breakfast. Visit the
colorful local market, then visits to the most significant pagodas and
temples of Bagan including Shwezigon pagoda, built by King
Anawrahta in the early 11th century as a religious shrine; Ku
Byanuk Gyi, a temple with superb murals of Jataka scenes; Ananda
temple, with four standing Buddha images. After lunch, visit one of
Myanmar’s
most treasured handicrafts, a lacquerware craftsmen’s workshop in nearby Myinkaba
village. You will continue to Manuha temple, built in the
mon-style in 1059 and follow on to Nanbaya temple, a unique
sandstone monument said to have been the palace of King Manuha.
Next you will explore the Myingaba Gu Byauk Gyi temple, a
temple noteworthy for its mural paintings under the protection of UNESCO.
And visit The Archaological Museum to view beautiful Buddha images of
bronze, stone and lacquer and . Dinner and
overnight in Bagan
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Day 5 : BAGAN - YANGON
Breakfast at hotel and by morning flight back to Yangon –
Upon arrival Yangon, transfer to Bago , visit the ancient capital
of Mon : 4 buddhars of Kyaikpun , Kalyani Sima
ordination’s hall, Shwemawdaw pagoda with their
golden dome , the sleeping buddha of Shwethalyaung pagoda – Drive
back to Yangon , excursion by a 'hamsa-bird-shaped' floating barge on
Kandawgyi (Royal) Lake, stroll through the Bogyoke Market with
hundreds of food, clothes, handicrafts and gems stores visit to one of the
world’s most spectacular monuments, the Shwedagon pagoda in the sunset
– Dinner and Overnight in Yangon
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Day 6 : YANGON
DEPARTURE
Breakfast in hotel. Free at your leisure for relaxing,
walking and shopping at Yangon until
transfer to the airport for departure.
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