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Myanmar Classic 6 days YANGON - BAGAN - MANDALAY - HEHO - INLE LAKE - YANGON
Day 1 Yangon Arrival in Yangon Transfer Sightseeing in Yangon. Visit Shwedagon Pagoda
SHWEDAGON PAGODA: the highlight of any visit to Yangon, this pagoda dates back about 2500 years and was built to house eight sacred hairs of the Buddha. Its original shape has changed beyond all recognition over the centuries. Its bell-shaped superstructure, resting on a terraced base, is covered in about 60 tons of gold-leaf, which is continuously being replaced.
NATIONAL MUSEUM: a museum with several interesting exhibits, especially the 8 meter high Sihasana Lion Throne, used by King Thibaw Min, the last Burmese king, and returned to Burma in 1908 by Lord Mountbatten. The main floor contains jewellery, old black and white photos of Mandalay Palace and Yangon, royal relics, Hintha opium weights and inscribed tablets.
SULE PAGODA: this 48 meter high golden dome was used by the British as the nucleus of their grid pattern for the city when it was rebuilt in the 1880s. The pagoda's peculiarity is its octagonal-shaped stupa, which retains its shape as it tapers to the spire. Overnight in Yangon.
Day 2 Yangon - Bagan Transfer Flight from Yangon to Bagan. Transfer Sightseeing in Bagan
Bagan is a spectacular plain stretching away from the Ayeyarwaddy River, dotted with thousands of 800-year old temple ruins. Although human habitation at Bagan dates back almost to the beginning of the Christian era, Bagan only entered its golden period with the conquest of Thaton in 1057 AD.
SHWEZIGON PAYA: King Anawrahta started the construction of the Schwezigon Pagoda to enshrine some relicts of Buddha. The construction was finished by his successor, King Kyansittha between 1086 and1090. Originally the Shwezigon Pagoda marked the northern end of the city of Bagan. The stupa's graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar.
GUBYAUKHYI TEMPLE at Wetkyi-Inn: This Temple was built in the early 13th Century and repaired in 1468. The great colorful painting about the previous life of Buddha and the distinguished architecture make this temple an interesting site for a visit. This temple is not to be confounded with the Gubyaukgyi Temple in Myinkabe.
ANANDA PAHTO: one of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. Thought to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha, this perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period.
GUBYAUKGYI TEMPLE at Myinkaba: Built in 1113 by Kyanzittha's son Rajakumar, this temple is famous for its well-preserved Stuccos from the 12th century on the outside walls. The magnificent paintings date from the original construction of the temple and are considered to be the oldest original paintings in Bagan.
MANUHA TEMPLE: The Manuha Temple was built in 1059 by King Manuha, the King of Thaton, who was brought captive to Bagan by King Anawrahta. It enshrines the unusual combination of 3 seated and one reclining image Buddha. It is said that this temple was built by Manuha to express his displeasure about his captivity in Bagan.
SHWESANDAW PAYA: In 1057 King Anawrahta built this Pagoda following his conquest of Thaton. This is the first monument in Bagan, which features stairways leading up from the square bottom terraces to the round base of the Stupa. This Pagoda is ideal to watch Bagan's magnificent sunsets.
MYINKABA: this tiny village, only two kilometers from Bagan, is known for producing the finest lacquerware in Myanmar. Stop by one of the workshops and learn about the painstaking process of laquerware making and decoration. Watch sunset over Bagan Enjoy a panoramic view of the sun setting over the plain of Bagan from one of the pagoda platforms. Overnight in Bagan.
Day 3 Bagan - Mandalay Transfer Flight from Bagan to Mandalay. Transfer
Visit Maha Gandayon Monastery to offer food for the monks. Sightseeing in Mandalay
Mandalay was the last capital of Myanmar before the British took over so it still has great importance as a cultural center and historically it's the most Burmese of the country's large cities. Mandalay's Buddhist monasteries are among the most important in the country - about 60% of all the monks in Myanmar reside in the Mandalay area. The city takes its name from Mandalay Hill, the 236m-high bluff that rises just to the north-east of Mandalay Fort and its royal palace.
KYAUKTAWGYI PAGODA: built between 1853 and 1878 and chiefly interesting for the huge seated image of the Buddha carved from a single block of marble. The marble block from the mines of nearby Sagyin was so colossal that it required 10,000 men laboring for 13 days to transport it from a canal to the current site.
SANDAMANI PAYA: a cluster of slender whitewashed stupas built on the site of King Mindon's temporary palace - used while the new Mandalay Palace was under construction. The Paya enshrines an iron image of the Buddha cast in 1802 by Bodawpaya and transported here from Amarapura in 1874.
MAHAMUNI PAYA: originally built by King Bodawpaya in 1784 when a road paved with bricks was constructed from his palace to the paya's eastern gate. The centerpiece of the shrine is the highly venerated Mahamuni image that was transported to Myanmar from Mrauk U in Rakhaing in 1784.
KUTHODAW PAYA: the central stupa here was modeled on the Shwezigon Paya at Nyaung U near Bagan. Building commenced in 1857, at the same time as the royal palace. The paya has been dubbed 'the world's biggest book', for standing around the central stupa are 729 marble slabs on which are inscribed the entire Tripitaka. Visit Mandalay Hill at sunset. Overnight in Mandalay.
Day 4 Mandalay - Heho - Inle Lake
Transfer Flight from Mandalay to Heho. By vehicle from Heho to Inle Lake
Transfer by boat. Excursion by boat on Inle Lake
INLE LAKE: Inle Lake, located in Shan State, is beautiful, with very calm waters dotted with patches of floating vegetation and fishing canoes. High hills rim the lake on all sides. The lake's shore and islands bear 17 villages on stilts, mostly inhabited by the Intha people. Enjoy the spectacular scenery and observe the skilled fisherman using their "leg-rowing" technique to propel themselves around the lake. Visit the floating gardens, a floating market and a Intha village around the lake (please note that no markets take place on full moon or new moon days). The day's sightseeing also includes a visit to the PHAUNG DAW OO PAGODA and the NGA PHE KYAUNG, or the MONASTERY OF JUMPING CATS. Overnight in Inle Lake.
Day 5 Inle Lake - Heho - Yangon
Transfer by boat By vehicle from Inle Lake to Heho. Flight from Heho to Yangon. Transfer. Afternoon at leisure
Overnight in Yangon.
Day 6 Yangon
Transfer to airport for departure flight.
Service inclusive of : -
- Tours & Transfer include admission fee as mentioned include English speaking station guide.
- Domestic airfare as mentioned.
- Accommodation as mentioned.
- Full board meals as mentioned.
Service exclusive of :-
- Yangon Internation airport tax. (US$ 10.- / pax)
- Tip & drinks.
- Other personal expenses & personal insurance.
Hotel in Standard Class
Yangon : Central Hotel / Asia Plaza Hotel / Parorama Hotel
Bagan : Kaytumadi Dynasty Hotel / Ruby True Hotel / Arthawka Hotel
Mandalay : Nadi Myanmar Hotel / Silver Star Hotel
Inle Lake : Golden Island Cottage / Paradise Inle Resort / Paramount Inle Resort
Hotel in Superior Class
Yangon : Park royal Hotel / Kandawgyi Palace / Nikko Royal Lake Hotel
Bagan : Bagan Thande Hotel / Thazin Garden Hotel
Mandalay : Hotel Mandalay / Mandalay Swan Hotel
Inle Lake : Goden Island Cottage / Paradise Inle Resort / Shwe Inn Tha Hotel
Hotel in First Class
Yangon : Traders Hotel.
Bagan : Bagan Hotel / Tharabar Gate Hotel
Mandalay : Mandalay Hill / Sedona Hotel
Inle Lake : Serenity Hotel / Lake View Resort
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