NATURE TOUR PROGRAM

Day3.MANDALAY-AMARAPURA-MANDALAY
After breakfast, proceed to Amarapura 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 drive to Mandalay. Mandalay was the last capital of Myanmar before the British took over and it still remains as a cultural centre. You can visit gold leaf making industry, tapestry, wood carving, bronze making, marble stone carving and famous Maha Muni Image now covered in thick layer of gold leaves and you will see how pious the Myanmar people are?
And visit 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.

Day4.MANDALAY-RV PANDAW
After breakfast, visit the downtown area and famous Zegyo market, designed in 1903 by Count Caldari, the picturesque open air market at the west of Zegyo market. And visit Shwe Inn Bin monastery; one of the surviving wooden monastery in Mandalay and transfer to Gaw Wein jetty and board the RV-Pandaw. RV-Pandaw is the historical vessel which was built in Scotland in 1947 for the shallow conditions of Ayeyarwaddy River. The company restored in teak and brass an original colonial river steamer called the RV Pandaw. The Pandaw Concept, as it became known, offered a new travel experience quite unlike other forms of travel: combining an expedition atmosphere with an elegant base afloat. But what made the Pandaw style unique was the ability of these shallow draft ships to penetrate and explore remote areas of the country and enable real cultural exchange between the traveler and the inhabitants of the great river valleys of Myanmar.
Depart form Mandalay and cruise all day. Dinner and overnight on board.

Day5.RV PANDAW-YANDABO-PAKOKKU/PAKHANGYI
Yandabo is a rarely visited small village with no roads access t the world. This village is famous for the production of terracotta pottery made from river bank mud. See the pottery making process at various stages. You are invited into people's homes and visit the local monastery. Lunch on board.
In the afternoon, you will arrive Pakokku, a port city just south of Confluence of two great rivers (Chindwin and Ayeyarwaddy). Here you will find workshops making anything from sandals to cheroots. You can make a tour by local bus and travel outside the town to the little known archaeological site of Pakhangyi. This post-Bagan period provincial capital was walled with a moat and originally had a governor's palace. Visit the small museum with nice collection of woodcarvings and 19th Century wood-carving monastery. Have dinner and overnight on board.

Day6.BAGAN
You will arrive at Bagan at 11:00 am. Upon arrival visit Bagan; sightseeing includes with a diverse section of the most important pagodas and temples, such as Shwezigon pagoda, built by King Anawrahta in the early 11th Century, Htilominlo temple; noted for its plaster carvings; Ananda temple with four huge standing Buddha images and numerous seated figures and niches around the galleried interior. Enjoy the sunset of Bagan from the terraces of Shwe Sandaw pagoda. Overnight at hotel.

Day7. BAGAN
After breakfast, sightseeing starts with Nyaung Oo colorful local market. Verities of local products includes; lacquer ware, wood carvings, palm sugar, long and short sleeves shirts for men and ladies. Sightseeing continues to Minnanthu village and visit 13th A.D style pagodas and sees the daily activities of local people at Pwa-saw village. Visit Lawkananda pagoda and Ashae-Pet-leik and Anauk-Pet-leik Pagadas. In the afternoon, visit the lacquer-ware factory, Sulamani temple, Dhamayangyi temple and enjoy the sunset of Bagan. Overnight at Hotel.

Day8.BAGAN-YANGON
Take a morning flight to Yangon. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel and check into your room. Yangon sightseeing starts with Mawtin jetty and take a rickshaws for a short trip along the Yangon River, visit China Town area with various local foods, Indian ward with various street sellers and the splendid National Museum, including the gem-studded royal regalia and the Lion Throne of King Mindon and King Thibaw, the last kings if the Myanmar Kingdom. Take a break at hotel.
In the afternoon, visit the famous world renowned The Great 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. Enjoy your sunset from pagoda platform. Overnight at hotel.

Day9.YANGON (departure with morning flight)
The tour ends with breakfast and transfer to Yangon International airport.