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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-BAGAN (by morning flight)
In early morning, domestic flight will take you to Bagan. Sightseeing
start 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 lacquer ware factory
in New Bagan, Nan Phaya temple, Manuha temple, Myingaba Gyubyaukgyi
temple, Shwegyugyi temple and Thabinnyu temple. Enjoy the sunset
of Bagan from Shwesandaw Pagoda. Overnight at Hotel.
Day3. BAGAN-MANDALAY-AMARAPURA-SAGAING-MANDALAY (by morning
flight)
Take a morning flight to Mandalay; the last capital of Myanmar
Kings. Upon arrival, proceed to Amarapura (the city of Immortal);
visit the Mahagandayon monastery; famous for Buddhist learning
centre. It is home to a thousand monks, who will from a procession
as they to take their noon and final meal of the day. Amarapura
was the capital of upper Burma until 1850.
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.
In the afternoon, proceed to Sagaing and visit silverware making
at Ywahtaung village, Kaunghmudaw pagoda, drive up to Sagaing
hill and visit Umin-thonese pagoda and Son-U-Ponyashin pagoda.
Enjoy the sunset from this pagoda. Overnight at Hotel.
Day4. MANDALAY-MINGUN-MANDALAY
After breakfast, drive to Kywezon jetty to watch the busy riverside
activity and take a local riverboat to the ancient capital of
Mingun(app. 1 hour per way). Visit the Settawya pagoda, walk
to the huge Mingun Bell(90 tons), see the nearby unfinished
Mingun pagoda and visit the Hsinbyume pagoda, a reproduction
of the mythological Mt.Meru.Then come back to Mandalay and In
the afternoon, visit the down town area with the sprawling old
Zegyo Market, designed in 1903 by Count Caldari, the picturesque
open air market west of Zegyo, the Shwenandaw Golden Palace
monastery noted for its exquisite wood carving, Kuthodaw pagoda
with 729 stone tablets (known as the World's Biggest Book) and
finally drive up to Mandalay hill (Anti-ageing hill) and take
a panoramic view of Mandalay city. Overnight at Hotel.
Day5. MANDALAY-YANGON (by morning flight)
In the morning, drive to Mandalay International Airport to catch
the flight to Yangon. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel and
check-in. Today sightseeing is with the famous world renowned
pagoda; the highlight of Yangon. The 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 Buddha image),Karawaik
Hall(designed as a Royal Floating Barge on Royal Lake) for Kodak
moment.
In the afternoon you have enough time to wander around the sprawling
Scott market and to drive through residential areas where you
can still find some private old teak houses as well as with
many beautiful galleries. Overnight at hotel.
Day6. YANGON (departure with morning flight)
Today, the tour ends with the breakfast at hotel and transfer
to Yangon International Airport for your departure flight.
 
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