Highlights of Myanmar

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Activities: Multi Activities

Country: Myanmar

Route: Yangon – Bagan – Mandalay - Ubein Bridge - Mingun – Inle Lake – Ngapali - Yangon

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Highlights of Myanmar tour will take you to the top choice of destinations of the mysterious country. You will be welcomed with narrow and busy streets in former capital Yangon where the famous Shwedagon pagoda’s located then the World Heritage Bagan, the land of thousand stupas and pagodas allows you reveal and understand the Buddas life stories on gilted Jatakas. Continue up to the north will be ancient capital Mandalay. The city still remains its spectacular architecture masterpieces which can impress even the strictest travelers.

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Tour Highlights

See the bests of Myanmar with its symbolic icons
Climbing to the top of famous stupas in Bagan and wait for sacred moment of sunset
Fun horse cart ride to local villages
Visit the Royal relics in Mandalay and its surroundings
Boat ride for scenic views of giant mountainous lake - Inle
Explore ethnic people in remote, dirt paths trekking in Inle jungle

Brief Itinerary

Day 01: Arrival in Yangon
Day 02: Yangon – Bagan
Day 03: Bagan discovery
Day 04: Bagan – Mandalay
Day 05: Mandalay – Tour
Day 06: Mandalay – Heho – Inle Lake
Day 07: Inle Lake – Tour
Day 08: Inle Lake – Ngapali
Day 09: Ngapali Beach Free
Day 10: Ngapali - Yangon – Departure

Day 1: Arrival in Yangon

Warm greeting to Myanmar – the land of golden pagodas and temples

A transfer is included from Yangon airport to your hotel.

Take the rest of the day for a visiting to Chautatkhgyi pagoda, famed for the biggest reclining Buddha statue in Myanmar, followed by a pleasant walk in royal place where you will admire Karaweik Palace and the green park of Kandawgyi. Your highlight of this day is the visit to Shwedagon, the most outstanding pagoda, dominating the skyline of Yangon with a magical golden flash

Our welcomed dinner will be served with fine Burmese buffet and beautiful cultural show.

Meal: Welcome Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Yangon

Day 2: Yangon – Bagan

Enjoy your breakfast at hotel in Yangon then take a short flight to Bagan. On arrival, get a pick up to your hotel.

Join us for an amazing day insight the heritage sites of Bagan. You will learn about the remainder of more than 2500 temples and their history, discover the uniqueness of its relics and remits.

Htilomino temples, Gaw Damgamgyi temples, Ananda temples … will be listed on your visiting sites as the major attractions of Bagan.

One of the best highlights in Bagan is the magical sunset on the top of Shwenandaw before back to your hotel

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

Day 3: Bagan discovery

Colorize your Bagan experience with a visit to Nyang U market. We then visit Shwezigon pagoda, the olden golden pagoda in Bagan located in Nyang U town. Followed by a horse cart ride will takes us into the local habitat of Manuha, Kaweyai villages.

Enjoy a sunset cruise on Irrawaddy River.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

Day 4: Bagan – Mandalay

A short flight will bring you to the last capital of Myanmar, Mandalay City.

Upon arrival, get a transfer to your hotel and enjoy the first discovery of Mandalay starts from Amarapura, known as the former kingdom of Inwa. It is time to watch streams of monks queuing for lunch and studying. Followed by a stroll over Ubein Bridge, the longest teakwood bridge in Myanmar. Enjoy a manual boat ride on Maha Ganayon Kyaung lake.

After lunch, we will discover the royal Mandalay vestiges and relics including imperial Palace, Golden Palace Monastery and Kuthodaw Pagoda also known as the world biggest book.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Mandalay

Day 5: Mandalay – Tour (B)

Commence your day with a board ride upstream to Mingun, home to Uncompleted Wall, Sandamuni pagoda and Mingun ringing bell. Our local expert will be pleased to introduce you the life of people who live on the banks of Irrawaddy River.

As the boat travel downstream, we will visit Sagaing Hill with its highlights: Buhhda University, Buddha Cave and viewing point where you can enjoy the panorama of Mandalay.

Free to visit Mandalay night market.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Mandalay

Day 6: Mandalay – Heho – Inle Lake (B)

After breakfast at hotel, take a short flight to Heho, you will enjoy a scenic 40 minute driving to Nyang Shwe town. There, you will get on a beautiful boat trip to explore the life of Intha people who is famous for one leg rower.

Check in the resort in the middle of the lake and spend our time to discover local traditional works such as making boat, black smith, silk weaving and enjoy the uniqueness of Jumping Cat pagoda.

Back to your resort in the late afternoon.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Inle Lake

Day 7: Inle Lake Tour

Visit one of the most unique market on Inle lake which happens 5 days in different villages in Inlayarea : the Indein market. There is no better chance to behold the scene of Pa-O, Padang tribes in their traditional dresses.

Our guide will offer you some visit to local habitat of Pa-O people in Indein.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Inle lake

Day 8: Inle Lake – Ngapali

A short flight from Heho will take you to Ngapali Beach, the most beautiful beach in Myanmar with coconut groves and Treasure Island.

Free at your leisure to enjoy the beach and your resort.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Ngapali

Day 9: Ngapali Beach Free on your own activities

Free at your own to visit Ngapali fishing village, Thandwe town or immerse in scuba diving in the most pristine coves of Bengal Bay.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: Hotel in Ngapali

Day 10: Ngapali Beach - Yangon - Departure

Relax until our driver come to pick you up for the flight to Yangon. There, you will take your flight to next destinations.

Meal: Breakfast

Accommodation: N/A

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What is Included

Tour start and ends at Yangon Airport - Myanmar
You will be escorted by private English speaking guides (on spots).
Your car is private with air-conditioning.
03 Domestic flights included are from Yangon - Bagan, Bagan - Heho, Heho - Yangon
Meals are daily breakfasts and 01 welcome dinner
Boat trips as mentioned in itinerary
Entrance fees where requested.
Horse cart riding for surrounding excursion as indicated
Your accommodation are twin sharing, 3 star standards
This tour is subject to single supplement if requested
Service charges and taxes 10%

What is NOT Included

Visa arrangement (now with Evisa)
Drinks during tours
Personal expenses
Travel insurance
Others not mentioned

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Passports and Visas

The first thing goes first. You definitely must obtain valid VISA in order to travel into any country and so is Myanmar (Burma). Unless your country is in VISA exemption list, it is your responsibility to get valid VISA before arrival. There are two ways to get Myanmar VISA:

Go to Myanmar Embassies and Consulates in your home country and you will be guided procedure. You may want to check the list of countries where Myanmar has embassies and consulate offices by clicking here.
Obtain VISA On Arrival (VOA). For tourists coming from countries has no Myanmar Diplomatic Rep offices, you can obtain VOA online via www.myanmarevisa.gov.mm – the official portal for VOA by Myanmar government. The portal launched in Sep 01, 2014 and took its pilot operation for a month. Providing you encounter any issue, please contact us for support.

Climate & Clothing

Generally speaking, Myanmar is a tropical country with rather hot weather. Sometimes in year or in some Northern places, temperature cools down but not that can be called cold. Roughly saying that the best time to travel Myanmar is from Oct to March due to dry and cool season. Other months, however, you may get very nice deals of promotion.

For clothing: comfortable clothes, absolutely. We suggest you should take at least one long pan, a long skirt and a sleeve top because we will visit some religious site and many of them require proper code of dress.

All of temples and pagodas require you enter with bare feet. A pair of sandals is highly recommended.

Cell Phones & Calling Cards

You may wish to carry a cell phone while traveling. Check with your cell phone provider if your phone will work in the destination(s) you are visiting. Myanmar service is dominated by the GMS technology standard, while some of the world such as U.S uses the incompatible CDMA standard. We suggest that you should check carefully or you may incur high international roaming fees.

We said previously “the SIM card in Myanmar is not very popular and still quite expensive”. But now, forget it! SIM cards in Myanmar now are cheap and easy to buy in any main city as cheap as about US$ 02 each. Cell phones, even smart phones are available on sales widely.

Making Telephone Calls from One Country to Another

When dialing a number from one country to another, you should proceed as follows: dial your country's Exit Code + destination Country Code + Phone Number. Country Code of Myanmar is 95.

Wireless Internet Access

Passengers traveling with WiFi enabled devices (such as a personal computer, smartphone, tablet, or digital audio player) may be able to connect to the internet via a wireless network access point (or hotspot). Wifi is now popular in most hotels from three stars up. Most of them are supplying Free Wifi but some may incur extra charges. We suggest you should ask the receptionist before.

Cards and Currency

Myanmar’s national currency, the KYAT (pronounced chat, abbreviated in MMK) is divided into the following banknotes: K1, K5, K10, K20, K50, K100, K200, K500 and K1000.

We once said “ATMs are still very hard to come” but from my latest inspection of Myanmar, the country now starts using ATMs. Most three stars hotels up often have at least one AMT machine right at their lobbies. Main hotels now accepts credit cards payment.

Anyway, we suggest you should bring with some cashes just in case. Local buying there accept Burmese and US dollars widely. However please pay at attention when bring US notes with you:

The US$ notes must be new.
The US$ notes torn, marked, folded will not be accepted.
The US$ notes having series before 2003 backward may not accepted.

You are allowed to bring up to US$ 5000 in cash per person to enter Myanmar.

Trip Preparation

A little pre-planning can make your trip go a lot smoother. We suggest you should taking a checklist below:

Several weeks before your trip, make a list of what you will need to take with you.
Make sure your personal documents (passports, visas, driver’s license) are in order.
We suggest that you make photocopies of passports, visas, personal ID and any other important travel documents and pack them separately from the originals. If you lose the originals while traveling, you'll have copies for easier reporting and replacement.
You may consider bringing a small supply of over the counter medications for headaches and/or anti-diarrhea pills. Pack a list of medications including dosage and generic names.
We recommend that you pack a portable alarm clock.
Avoid placing valuables such as cameras in your checked luggage.

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