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Inle Special(14 Days / 13 Nights)
	Day 01 Arrive Yangon Arrive Yangon, welcomed by our tour guide and transfer to hotel. Overnight at Hotel in Yangon. Day 02 Yangon – Heho (by flight) – Pindaya – Kalaw After Breakfast, transfer to airport for domestic flight to Heho. Arrive and drive (67 km – 2 hrs) to small quiet town PINDAYA, where sight-seeing highlights include the PINDAYA Caves, unique for the thousands of Buddha images placed there by pilgrims over many centuries. Then drive (48 km - 1 1/2 hours) to KALAW, a fresh and delightful hill station, on the rim of the Shan Plateau, which is a market center for ethnic minorities from surrounding regions. Overnight at Hotel in Kalaw. Day 03 Kalaw (soft trekking) - Inle Lake Take a half-a-day trekking trip outside of Kalaw for a small mountain village where one of the ethnic minority people known as Palaung live and practice the old traditional communal way of life. Return back to Kalaw. Afternoon drive to NYAUNG SHWE ( 62 km / 2 hours ). Arrive and an excursion by boat on the lake will include sights of PHAUNG DAW OO Pagoda, wonderful floating garden / vegetation, FLOATING Islands, FLOATING Market, natives method of fishing and village life on the lake. Overnight at hotel in Inle. Day 04 Inle Lake After an early breakfast, boat journey to the western shore of Inle Lake to visit the INN THEIN Pagoda complex, found after following a stair path lined up with magnificent columns. Explore the colourful market (on market day only) in Inn Thein. Continue on foot (about 2 hours) or by ox-drawn carriage (if available) to the U Daung Mountain range to visit the mountain monastery. Overnight at Hotel in Inle. Day 05 Excrusion to Sagar Village After Breakfast, take a boat trip to Sagar village, about 64 km south of Nyaung Shwe. Visit to Tha Gaung relic pagoda, other ancient religious monuments and ways of life of Shan, Pa O and Intha national races in Sagar village. Return back to Inle. Overnight at Hotel in Inle. Day 06 Inle Lake – Heho – Mandalay (by flight) After Breakfast, transfer to airport for domestic flight to Mandalay. Arrive and transfer to Hotel. Afternoon, proceed on a comprehensive sightseeing tour including MAHAMUNI Pagoda, with its spectacular Buddha image covered with thick layers of gold leaves, SHWE INBIN Monastery, one of the most outstanding monasteries in the country, SHWE NAN DAW KYAUNG or GOLDEN PALACE Monastery, a superb example of a traditional wooden building, KUTHODAW Pagoda, known as the World Biggest Book for its 729 stone slabs of Buddhist Scriptures. Visit a traditional hand-woven silk workshop as well as a Kalaga tapestries craftsmen’s shop before proceeding to MANDALAY Hill, for sunset. Overnight at Hotel in Mandalay. Day 07 Mandalay After breakfast, excursion by road to ancient capital of AMARAPURA, 15 kilometers south of Mandalay, visit MAHAGANDAYON Monastery; a famous Buddhist monastery, where more than a thousand monks live and study, continue to 1.2 Km long 200 years old U BEIN Bridge, built of huge teak logs salvaged form AVA Royal Palace. Visit BAGAYA Monastery, with a superb collection of Buddha statues. Then excursion to the former Royal Capital of INNWA (AVA), tour highlights with horse cart to MAHA AUNGMYE BONZAN Monastery, ruins of ancient AVA, WATCH Tower, fort walls and brick causeway. Return to Mandalay. Afternoon, transfer to jetty for a boat trip on the Ayeyarwaddy River to MINGUN, about 11 km (1 hour) upriver from Mandalay, with visits to the MINGUN Bell, weighing 90 tons and claimed as the largest uncracked bell in the world; HSINBYUME Paya, and the unfinished MINGUN Paya, built as one of the world’s largest chedi by King Bodaw Paya. Return to Mandalay. Overnight at Hotel in Mandalay. Day 08 Mandalay – Bagan (by car) After breakfast, drive (293 km – 7 hrs) to BAGAN, through varied agricultural landscapes and small villages. Arrive Bagan and transfer to Hotel. Overnight at Hotel in Bagan. Day 09 Bagan After breakfast at the hotel, sightseeing Bagan by visiting: Nyaung Oo Market, Shwezigon Pagoda - the prototype for later Myanmar pagodas built by King Anawrahta; Ananda Temple - King Kyansittha's masterpiece and the crowning achievement of the early style temple of architecture, Kyansitha Umin, Thatbyinnyu Temple - the highest building on the Bagan plain; and Htilominlo Temple - the largest temples of Bagan. Lunch at a Restaurant. Evening visit to Lacquer-ware making home cottage; Manuha Temple; Myinkaba Gubyaukgyi Temple - known for its wall paintings depicting scenes from the Jataka; and Dhamanyangyi Temple – the most massive temple of Bagan. Evening, visit Shwesandaw Pagoda or Bupaya to watch sunset. Overnight at Hotel in Bagan. Day 10 Bagan - Salay After Breakfast, excursion (37 km – 1 1/2 hrs) to Salay along the Ayeyarwady river bank. Observe spectacular 18th century wood carving works at museum like Yoke Son monastery and near by unique 13th century lacquer-ware Buddha Image. Continue visit a number of other old monasteries and splendid colonial-style houses. Return to Bagan and continue visit excavating sites of the royal palace of Anaratha and Kyansittyha kings. Enjoy the sunset from one of the ruins. Overnight at Hotel in Bagan. Day 11 Bagan – Yangon (by flight) – Kyaikhtiyo (by car) After Breakfast, transfer to Bagan airport for domestic flight back to Yangon. Upon arrival and drive to KIN PUN Base Camp (194 km - 5 hours). Continue to KYAIKHTIYO the “Golden Rock”, a huge boulder completely covered by gold leaves and delicately balanced on the edge of a cliff. From KIN PUN, we have to drive 11 km to the intermediate point. From the upper area, travelers must, at present, walk the final stage, approximately 4 km, up steep paths which ascend some 500 m to the GOLDEN ROCK. On arrival, watch the beauty of sunset or dawn at this important pilgrimage site. Overnight at Hotel in Kyaikhto. Day 12 Kyaikhtiyo – Bago - Yangon (by coach) After breakfast, return to BAGO (110 km - 3 1/2 hours). Sightseeing includes the SHWEMAWDAW Pagoda, over a thousand years old, its spire is even taller than SHWEDAGON Pagoda. The 55 meter long reclining SHWE THALYAUNG Buddha image is among the country’s most revered. Afternoon, continue to YANGON (84 km - 1 1/2 hours), en route, visit the Allied War Graves cemetery near HTAUK KYANT and a tree shrine dedicated to a legendary “Nat”. Overnight at Hotel in Yangon. Day 13 Yangon Tour of Yangon's city center featuring Chaukhtatgyi, a colossal reclining Buddha; Karaweik hall, a Royal barge on the Royal Lake and Bogyoke (Scott) market with hundreds of stall for souvenirs. End up the day with World famous Shwedagon Pagoda, the most venerable of all places of worship in South East Asia. Witness the golden dome light up with sunshine as the sunsets. Overnight at Hotel in Yangon. Day 14 Departure Transfer to Yangon International Airport for departure flight.