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Tour code MYH-02
Route Yangon - Bagan - Kalaw trekking - Inle
Lake - Yangon
Duration 10 days / 09 nights
Features Pack least, intermingle more with local
life, have more exercises and more cultural
discovery of your own.
Yangon - Bagan - Kalaw trekking- Inle Lake - Yangon
10 days & 09 nights Cultural discovery
After breakfast at hotel we will continue our tripand spend this morning to visit and meditateat Shwedaggon, the pride of Buddhism notjust of Myanmar but Buddhist countries, withthousands of small pagodas and stupassurrounding the main one, which is 99m high,all are golden-plated. Despite being poor orrich, Myanmar people consider paying tributeto the pagodas and plating stupas andBuddha statue with real golden leaves a verynatural deed. Being celebrated its 2,600 yearsold (according to Buddhism’s records) in May2012, Shwedaggon has been being the mostimportant center of meditation that attractspilgrims from all around the world. A visit at thepagoda will take us not less than 2 or 3 hoursfor its magnificence and significance. After thevisit, we will go on to Bogoyke market, alsocalled Scott market, the biggest market ofMyanmar where exciting daily life of Yangoncan tell us a lot about the living here as well asoffering us great chance for watching differentjewelries made of jade and emerald (one ofthe prides of Myanmar) and lovely handicraft.Have lunch at local restaurant before transferto the airport for flight to Bagan. The guide inBagan will pick-up you at Nyang-U airport andtransfer to the hotel or directly to the ancientarea of Bagan with thousands of stupas andpagodas and temples, where we can enjoy agreat sunset ever over the stupas. O/N Bagan.
Please note!The tourguide at two cities can adjust theprogram slightly depending on our flight time.
Welcomed by Threeland tourguide andvehicle at Yangon airport from your morningor midday flight, transfer to Yangon to check-in hotel. After a short refreshment we will startto visit the city, including the NationalMuseum, the biggest Museum of the city. Withfive storeys full of antiquities made of realgold, silver, jade, ivory, exceptional traditionalcostume and symbols and so on, the museumdoes give us a great view about Myanmarculture and history. Go on to the Jetty wheredaily life of Yangon is going on with all itshardship which can help us understand moreabout hardworking people and theirhospitality, diligence and kindness. Thelandscape at the Jetty is also graceful withgrand view of the river and charming colonialquarter nearby. At leisure in the evening. (Onemeal, either Lunch or dinner will be arrangeddepending on your arrival flight at localrestaurant between visits). O/N Yangon.
Please note!The National Museum is closed on Mondayand Tuesday and other sites will berecommended.
DAY 1. ARRIVAL IN YANGON - VISIT(L or D)
DAY 2. YANGON - BAGAN (B/L/-)
Itinerary in detail
DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN YANGON - VISIT (L OR D)
DAY 2: YANGON - BAGAN (B/L/-)
DAY 3: BAGAN (B/L/-)
DAY 4: BAGAN - (flight) - HEHO - KALAW (B/L/-)
DAY 5: KALAW - TREKKING - HTI TAIN
MONASTERY (B/L/D)
DAY 6: HTI TAIN MONASTERY - TREKKING - BOAT
TRIP - INLE LAKE (B/L/-)
DAY 7: INLE LAKE - VISIT BY BOAT - INLE LAKE (B)
DAY 8: INLE LAKE - YANGON (B/L/-)
DAY 9: YANGON AT LEISURE (B)
DAY10: YANGON DEPARTURE (B)
Itinerary in brief
English-speaking guide (station guide) except the 2
last days.
Meals as stated with local Myanmar food.
Twin-shared room with daily breakfast
Land transfer by good air-con vehicles.
Water during transfer
Boat trips at Inle Lake
Trekking in Kalaw with local guide and support for
luggage
Admissions which are compulsory
Visa
Other admissions (quoted separately)
International flights
Domestic flights (quoted separately)
Other meals and drinks
Tips and personal expenses
Services included
Services not included
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Breakfast box will be prepared by the hotel for our very
early departure, normally at 4.30 or 5am, should we wish
to witness the great sunrise in Bagan. Our horse cart and
tourguide will pick-up us on time to depart to the Old
Bagan where most beautiful testimonies of the splendors
and the richness of this site conceal. After enjoying the
dawn from behind stupas, we will discover more a lot from
thousands of temples, shrines, stupas at Bagan, to name
a few, Ananda temple - one of the finest one in
architecture and most revered temples with its four
standing Bagan style Buddha images and huge carved
teak doors, Ananda Oakkyaung - simply a Monastery built
with red bricks, located within the precincts of the Ananda
Temple. It was built in 1137 AD and paintings of the 18th
century are seen in the walls of the monastery,
Thatbyinnyu Temple - 201ft tall, the tallest in Bagan and it
is shaped like a cross, but is not symmetrical. The temple
has two primary storeys, with the seated Buddha image
located on the second storey; or Dhammayangyi Temple
- the widest temple in Bagan, and is built in a plan similar
to that of Ananda Temple. In the afternoon visit Htilominlo
pagoda, famed for its original fine plaster carvings and
glazed sandstone decoration which are remarkably well-
preserved. The temple stands 46m high and houses four
Buddha statues on the lower and upper floors;
Mingalazedi pagoda, which is one of the few temples in
Bagan with a full set of glazed terra cotta tiles or the
Dhammayangyi pagoda, Bagan’s largest temple, where
the brickwork is perhaps the finest that can be found
around Bagan. Back to your hotel in late afternoon. O/N
Bagan.
DAY 3. BAGAN (B/L/-)
Itinerary in detail
Have Breakfast at hotel before being transferred to
Nyang-U airport to fly to Heho. The guide of Threeland at
Heho will pick up and transfer you to Kalaw, a hill station
set up by the British centuries ago, with stops to visit on
the way. With pleasant mountain weather, sufficient
vegetables, colourful flowers, many ethnic group with
exclusive cultural traditions, Kalaw is one of the best
attractions for trekking and long stay. Check in your hotel
and have lunch before visit the town in the afternoon,
including the temples and monasteris in Kalaw,
DAY 4: BAGAN - (flight) - HEHO -KALAW (B/L/-)
DAY 6: HTI TAIN MONASTERY - TREKKING - BOAT TRIP - INLE LAKE(B/L/-)
DAY 5: KALAW - TREKKING - HTI TAIN MONASTERY (B/L/D)
After breakfast at hotel we will start our trekking for the whole day, there are many different paths passing
the villages of Pa-O and other ethnic groups in this area and all the roads are extremely green with
vegetation gardens, paddy terraced fields, poetic landscape with high hills, thousand-year-old giant trees
and wild flowers. The hills, though quite high, are not too challenging unless the rain season arrives. We can
have both exercises by trekking, and at the same time witness the industrious life of hill tribal groups and
chat with them to learn more about their culture. Reach a graceful monastery in the forest at Hti Tain for
dinner and rest. O/N Hti Tain.
Kalaw market, church, and prepare ourselves for the trekking days ahead. O/N Kalaw.
Please note! In rainy season the program may change in accordance with the humidity and conditions of
trekking routes.
After breakfast at the monastery, we will trek for another half-day trekking until arrival at Indain, a Boat Pier
at Inle Lake. The route will be more challenging with more up and down parts but not too hard. After lunch
at the pier, we will be transferred by boat to our Resort located on the Lake. The road on the lake is extremely
picturesque with houses on stilts on the lake, water vegetation, water birds, bamboo and wood bridges
linking two rows of houses, and many fishermen with their multiple ways of fishing. We will visit some
handicraft shops and workshops, where you can both witness the way the locals make bamboo, silk, fiber,
lotus, blacksmith products and buy some gifts for our families and friends. If you are keen on visiting
religious construction of Myanmar by now, stop at Phaung Daw Oo Paya, a pagoda with four famous
Buddha statues covered by golden leaves from the Buddhists. Back to the resort later afternoon. O/N Inle
Lake.
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After breakfast at hotel, we will take a boat trip back to Pier to take our vehicle to the airport in Heho. Flight back to
Yangon, our guide will see us at the airport to take us to Sule pagoda, the one said to be there for more than two
thousand years old, with great Buddha image and destination of many pilgrims as well as people who look for an
isolated place for meditation. Home to many important history events, Sule pagoda serves not as a religious
construction but historic site either. Lunch at restaurant in Yangon. Afternoon is for your free visit with the help of the
tourguide and vehicle (admission at own account) until the dusk. O/N Yangon.
Breakfast at hotel, at leisure the whole day, no
services or meals included.
DAY 9: YANGON AT LEISURE (B)
DAY 10: YANGON DEPARTURE (B)
After breakfast you will be free at leisure until our
vehicle picks-up us to the airport for our departure
flight (latest hotel check-out by 12.00pm).
DAY 8: INLE LAKE - YANGON (B/L/-)
Today is our day to chew up andmeditate after a long trekking road andseveral flights to take during tourjourney in Myanmar. After breakfast wecan relax for a bit until taking our boat tovisit the lake with stopovers at thegardens and local workshops and stopfor watching and taking photos of leg-rowing fishermen, an extraordinarytradition only existing at the Lake. Withthe tourguide, we will visit floatinggardens on the lake where people usewater weed as a good, local fertilizersand make very tasty vegetables,especially tomato, cucumber, cowpeaand melons. If we are lucky, we can visita market that held every 5-day at themonastery and see how people starttheir early trading with plenty ofconsumer goods, from fresh fish andchicken, duck, to different kinds ofvegetable planted on the lake andglamorous flowers. Visit the famousmonastery Nga Hpe Chaung, oftenknown as the Jumping Cat monastery,which is very famous for their woodenstructure, before returning to our hotel.O/N Inle Lake.
DAY 7: INLE LAKE -VISIT BY BOAT - INLE