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Day1. YANGON (arrival with morning flight)
Upon arrival at Yangon, check into your hotel. A uniformed host
will invite you a welcome drink and collect your tour program
from our tour guide.
City tour includes downtown and Rangoon's riverfront. On the
way see many of the remarkable sites of the colonial and religious
past of this garden city. Old Rangoon was Dr. William Montgomery's
design. He was the army superintendent surgeon and learnt his
city planning skills from Sir Stanford Raffles in Singapore.
Buildings of heritage in Yangon are now listed for protection.
The old city centre includes:
Yangon City Hall, designed by U Tin in 1925, the Strand Road
with the Moorish arched General Post Office, The red brick Customs
House, the towered Port Authority, The Queen Anne style Civil
Court, the red brick General Hospital built in 1911 and the
Railway Station. Take a break at hotel.
In the afternoon, visit China Town area with various local foods,
Indian ward with various street sellers and drive to Mawtin
Jetty and take a rickshaw for a short trip along the Rangoon
River that offers a remarkable atmosphere with spectacular colors
for Kodak moment. Overnight at hotel.
Day2.
YANGON-MANDALAY (by evening flight)
After breakfast visit the Dragon glass factory, producing exquisite
hand-blown glasses, the Mae La Mu pagoda, popular for all of
its Buddha images and a much more "folk oriented"
feeling than other pagodas. Tourists rarely visit it and the
splendid National Museum, including the gem-studded royal regalia
and the Lion Throne of King Mondon and King Thibaw, the last
kings of Myanmar Kingdom. Have lunch at local restaurant. Take
a short break at hotel and drive to Yangon airport to catch
the domestic flight to Mandalay. Upon arrival, check into your
hotel and overnight.
Day3.
MANDALAY-AMARAPURA-MANDALAY-BAGAN (by evening flight)
After breakfast, drive to Mandalay Hill (Anti-ageing hill),
a vantage-point for panoramic view of the city with old city
wall and the moat with water. And visit the Kuthodaw pagoda
with 729 stone tablets (known as the World's Biggest Book),
Shwenandaw Golden Palace monastery; noted for its exquisite
wood carvings. Then drive to South West of Mandalay and visit
Maha Muni Image now covered in thick layer of gold leaves; you
can see how pious the Myanmar people are? Mandalay was the last
capital of Myanmar before the British took over and it still
remains as a cultural centre. So, you can see arts and crafts
center (such as bronze casting, stone carving, wood carving,
tapestry etc...,).
In the afternoon, drive to Amarapura "the city of Immortals".
As it was the custom, most of the important wooden palaces and
monasteries were taken down and transported to the new capital
in Mandalay. Apart from pagodas that have survived, the ancient
art of silk and cotton weaving, using handlooms is very much
alive and visit U Bein wooden bridge, over 150 years old, which
is still in use. Then transfer to Mandalay International Airport
for the flight to Bagan. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel
and overnight.
Day4.
BAGAN-YANGON (by evening flight)
After breakfast, sightseeing starts with Nyaung Oo local market,
Shwezigon Pagoda, a prototype of real Myanmar stupa, built in
1087.Wetgyiin Gyubyaukgyi for its famous Jatakas mural painting,
Htilominlo temple for its plaster carvings and famous Ananda
temple with four standing Buddha Images. In the afternoon, visit
the lacquer ware factory in New Bagan,Nan Phaya temple, Manuha
temple, Myingaba Gyubyaukgyi temple, Shwegyugyi temple and Thabinnyu
temple and proceed to Bagan airport to fly back to Yangon. Upon
arrival, check into your hotel and overnight.
Day5.
YANGON (departure with evening flight)
After breakfast, visit the famous world renown pagoda; the highlight
of Yangon. Shwedagon pagoda described by Somerset Maugham: "The
Shwedagon rose superb, glistening with its gold, like a sudden
hope in the dark night of the soul of which the mystics write,
glistening against the fog and smoke of the thriving city".
This massive bell-shaped stupa rises nearly 100 meters above
its hill-top surroundings. Wander through this magnificent structure
and its courtyards, stupa, bells, temples and Buddha images
and see religious and secular visitors from all parts of the
globe. Shwedagon has become the symbol of Myanmar. And visit
Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda (72m long reclining Buddha image),Karawaik
Hall(designed as a Royal Floating Barge on Royal Lake) for Kodak
moment and finally visit the famous shopping centre in Yangon;
the Scott Market and come back to hotel.
In the afternoon, you have time to repack all of your belonging
and you are ready to leave from Myanmar and we feel so sad to
say "Goodbye!"
And app. (17:00) transfer to Yangon International Airport for
your departure.
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