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YANGON - HEHO - INLE LAKE - MANDALAY - AMARAPURA - MANDALAY - BAGAN - POPA - BAGAN - YANGON ( 7 Days / 6 Nights )

Day1. YANGON ( arrival with morning flight )

YANGON - HEHO - INLE LAKE ( by afternoon flight )
Upon arrival at Yangon International Airport, welcome by our tour guide and starts with sightseeing of Yangon: Sule pagoda, dating back over 2000years, the Mahabandoola Park with its Independence Monument and walk around the downtown area. Wide streets, orderly town planning and neglected public buildings revive visions of British rule; while busy streets scenes and shimmering pagodas, bursting through a leafy canopy, hint at the rich local culture. Skyscrapers and glaring neon billboards have yet to overtake the capital. In the afternoon, transfer to airport for the flight to Heho in Shan State. Upon arrival, drive to Nyaung Shwe: a gateway town to the northern bank of Inle Lake (the blue sea in Shan State). Take a long-tailed motorboat and enjoy the sunset form the middle of the Lake with floating boat and transfer to your hotel for check in and overnight.

Day2. INLE LAKE - HEHO - MANDALAY ( by afternoon flight )

Early morning take a boat for the excursion on Inle Lake(22 km long and 11 km wide) famous for its unique one-leg rowers, typical floating gardens, local methods of fishing and village life. Sightseeing includes: Nga Phae Chaung (one of the oldest monastery around Inle Lake), the cheroot making industry, blacksmith and the silk weaving village of In Paw Khon. Continue visit to Phaung Daw Oo pagoda housing five sacred and almost shapeless Buddha images because of the quantity of applied gold leaf, gifts from the believers.
In the afternoon come back to Nyaung Shwe and transfer to Heho airport (1 hour drive) and fly to Mandalay: the city of last Myanmar Kings. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel for check in and overnight.

Day3. MANDALAY - AMARAPURA - MANDALAY

After breakfast, proceed to Amarapura to Amarapura (the city of Immortal); visit the Mahagandayon monastery; famous for Buddhist learning centre. It is home to a thousand monks, who will from a procession as they to take their noon and final meal of the day. Amarapura was the capital of upper Burma until 1850. As it was the custom, most of the important wooden palaces and monasteries were taken down and transported to the new capital in Mandalay. Apart from pagodas that have survived, the ancient art of silk and cotton weaving, using handlooms is very much alive and visit U Bein wooden bridge, over 150 years old, which is still in use. In the afternoon drive to Mandalay. Mandalay was the last capital of Myanmar before the British took over and it still remains as a cultural centre. You can visit gold leaf making industry, tapestry, wood carving, bronze making, marble stone carving and famous Maha Muni Image now covered in thick layer of gold leaves and you will see how pious the Myanmar people are?
And visit the Shwenandaw Golden Palace monastery noted for its exquisite wood carving, Kuthodaw pagoda with 729 stone tablets (known as the World's Biggest Book) and finally drive up to Mandalay hill (Anti-ageing hill) and take a panoramic view of Mandalay city. Overnight at Hotel.

Day4. MANDALAY - BAGAN ( by express boat )

Early morning at 5:00 am, transfer to Gaw Wein jetty to take the express boat to Bagan. After a day river cruise on the mighty river of Ayeyarwaddy, you reach Bagan. Thousands of decaying pagodas rises majestically from the plain to create a timeless scene, saluting a glorious past. On arrival at Bagan jetty transfers to hotel for check in and overnight.

Day5. BAGAN

After breakfast, Bagan sightseeing starts with Nyaung Oo local market, Shwezigon Pagoda, a prototype of real Myanmar stupa, built in 1087.Wetgyiin Gyubyaukgyi for its famous Jatakas mural painting, Htilominlo temple for its plaster carvings and famous Ananda temple with four standing Buddha Images. In the afternoon, visit the lacquer ware factory in New Bagan,Nan Phaya temple, Manuha temple, Myingaba Gyubyaukgyi temple, Shwegyugyi temple and Thabinnyu temple. And enjoy the sunset of Bagan from Shwesandaw Pagoda. Overnight at Hotel.

Day6. BAGAN - POPA - BAGAN - YANGON ( by evening flight )

After breakfast, drive to Mt. Popa(appr.1 ½ hour). On the way visit some villages and watch the collection of juice from the toddy-palm trees, and its fermentation onto palm sugar, and producing of peanut oil for cooking from the ox mill going round.
Upon arrival, visit Mt.Popa plug: Near the great extinct volcano, the solitary volanic crag of Mt.Popa is home to Myanmar's most powerful "Nats". At the bottom visit the Nat Museum with its life-sized statues of the 37 Nats. Walk up 777 steps to the top with shady stairway, seeing many pilgrams along the way. In the afternoon, drive back to Bagan airport and fly back to Yangon. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel and check in and overnight.

Day7. YANGON ( departure with evening flight )

Yangon sightseeing continues with the famous world renowned pagoda; the highlight of Yangon. The Shwedagon pagoda described by Somerset Maugham: "The Shwedagon rose superb, glistening with its gold, like a sudden hope in the dark night of the soul of which the mystics write, glistening against the fog and smoke of the thriving city". This massive bell-shaped stupa rises nearly 100 meters above its hill-top surroundings. Wander through this magnificent structure and its courtyards, stupa, bells, temples and Buddha images and see religious and secular visitors from all parts of the globe. Shwedagon has become the symbol of Myanmar. And visit Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda (72m long Buddha image), Karawaik Hall (designed as a Royal Floating Barge on Royal Lake) for Kodak moment and finally visit the famous shopping centre in Yangon; the Scott Market and come back to hotel.
In the afternoon, you have time to repack all of your belonging and you are ready to leave from Myanmar and we feel so sad to say "Goodbye!" And app. (17:00) transfer to Yangon International Airport for your departure.