10-DAY INSIGHT MYANMARWWW.THREELAND.COM

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