After breakfast at your hotel, transfer to the airport for domestic flight to Mandalay. Upon arrival, we begin the tour of Mandalay.

The scared Mahamuni Pagoda, one of the famous and a giant glittering golden Buddha statue in Mandalay.

The Shwe Inbin Monastery, Golden Palace Monastery (Shwe Kyaung) is the only remaining building from the 19th century Royal Palace.

Kuthodaw Pagoda houses the world’s largest book, make up of 729 marble slabs onto which Buddha’s teachings are carved in ancient Pali scripts.

Mandalay is famous for its skilled craftsmen, who were historically commissioned by the royal families. We will visit a selection of these shops, wood carving, gold leaf making and kalaga tapestry sewing. 

We will end our day with heading to U Bein Bridge. This 200 years old teak bridge was built in 1782 when Amarapura was the Royal Capital. From there, you will see the panoramic sunset view on the Taung Tha Man Lake.

Lunch and dinner will be served at local restaurant.

Overnight stay at hotel in Mandalay.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Mandalay

After breakfast at your hotel, we head to Sagaing Hill with over 600 white painted pagodas, monasteries and nunnery. It is home to 3,000 monks and 100 meditation centres. You will visit to Swan U Pone Nya Shin and U Min Thone Sae Pagodas.

From there, proceed driving up 1 hr to Monywa which located on the bank of Chindwin River. Upon arrival, start sightseeing to Thanbonde pagoda, a massive Buddhist complex pagoda. Continue to see the Bawdi Ta Htaung (1,000) Buddha images in a giant compound and Aung Sat Kyar Pagoda, which is a big standing Buddha in Myanmar.

Then, you will cross to the Chindwin River by boat and then hop on a jeep for visiting to Pho Win Taung sandstone cave, famous for its numerous Buddha statues and mural painting. At this place, you can feed to the monkeys (if it has chance) and also visit to the nearer cave Shwe Ba Taung which is famous for its sculpture works by artistic U Shwe Ba.

Transfer to the hotel for check in.

Lunch and Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay at hotel in Monywa.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Monywa

After breakfast at your hotel, you will drive (1 hr) to Pakkoku, a town of central Myanmar located on the river Ayeyarwaddy.

Arrive; you will stroll through the local market with its colourful vegetables and fruits, sells the regional products like tobacco, blanket and slipper. Then, you will visit to see how to make the tobacco workshop, Thanankha production (Myanmar traditional make up for women), and slipper production workshop.

After that, you will enjoy lunch at local restaurant.

Then, take by boat (about 2 hrs) down river to Bagan, situate on the bank of Ayeyarwaddy River. The time will be changed due to the water level of River. During the 11th to 13th centuries, when Bagan was the capital of First Myanmar Kingdom, rulers constructed thousands of huge stupas and temples, most of which still stand today on the banks of the Ayeyarwaddy River.

Upon arrival, transfer to the hotel and check in.

Lunch and Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

After breakfast at your hotel, transfer to the airport for domestic flight to Bagan. We begin the tour with visit to the famous Shwezigone Pagoda, considered the most wonderful and shouldn’t miss pagoda in Bagan. Nearby Shwezigone, we will visit Wetkyi Inn Gubyauk Gyi, a cave temple with exquisite mural paintings and the elegant Htilominlo Temple, noted for its fine plaster carvings and glazed sandstone decorations.

Continue touring through the famous pagodas in Bagan, we arrive at Ananda Temple, which is famous for an architectural masterpiece, and it has four standing giant Buddha Statues.

In the evening, we resume our journey on horse cart, Thatbyinnyu, the highest temple in Bagan, Dhammayangyi, the largest temple in Bagan.

Finally, we will finish the evening with an unforgettable sunset over the plains from the one of the Sunset Hill viewpoints.
Remark: The government strictly prohibited to climb the entire temple in Bagan since February 2018.
Lunch and Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

After breakfast at your hotel, we start the day at the colourful Nyaung Oo Market, where locals come to buy and sell fresh product and other goods every day. Take a walk around and you will see the production of Pone Yeh Gyi.

Then we will continue on to sites of Tayoke Pyay Temple in Minanthu Village, Phaya Thone Zu and Nandamanya Temples, which has long lasting mural painting and Kyat Kan Cave. This cave is a quiet monastery and the perfect meditation retreat in Bagan.

Afterwards, we head to Myin Ka Ba village and visit Gubyauk Gyi Temple, to admire the beautiful mural paintings and well-preserved plaster carvings. Nearby are Manuha Temple and Nan Paya Temple, two smaller temples known for its Buddha statues and stone work.

Lacquer ware and woodcrafts are two of Myanmar’s famous handicrafts. You will observe how these are made as we visit two workshops in Bagan. Watch as the skilled craftsmen use techniques passed down through generations to create many kinds of beautiful handicrafts.
Complete a day by cruising sunset over the majestic Ayeyarwaddy River.
Lunch and Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.

Overnight stay at hotel in Bagan.

Optional Tour
Balloon Experience Over Bagan - Experience the majestic landscape of Bagan with a soul-altering hot-air balloon ride over Bagan at sunrise -a thrill that promises to be a highlight of any trip to Myanmar. Dark and early in the morning, enjoy a snack of pastries, croissants, and coffee and watch as the balloons are filled -an experience itself. Then, after boarding the balloon, gently lift off above the temple-studded plains of Bagan just as the sun begins to rise above the horizon. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience that won’t soon be forgotten. (Note: available only from late- October to late-March; all flights weather permitting).

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Bagan

After an early breakfast at your hotel, transfer to the Nyaung U airport for domestic flight to Heho. Upon arrival, drive (35 km – 1 ½ hrs) takes you to Nyaung Shwe city.

Moving across the lake, we will pass through villages with stilted houses, floating gardens built up from strips of land and anchored to the bottom with bamboo poles. Be on the lookout for fishermen uses unique leg-rowing technique to propel their boats while casting their nets.  Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, one of our stops, is the main sanctuary of Inle Lake and it has five glittering small Buddha statues which covered with gold. 
Other stops include Nga Phe Chaung Monastery, a traditional Shan Style monastery with its famous for ancient Buddha images and proceed visiting to the Nam Pan Village to observe the cheroot making factory and wooden boat making.

Finally, we head to the hotel in time to catch a beautiful sunset.
Lunch will be served at a local restaurant on Inle Lake.

Dinner and you will be stay overnight hotel on Inle Lake

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Inle Lake

After breakfast at your hotel, embark your boat and visit to the lake’s morning lively market. The market rotates its location around the lake’s villages in a 5-day rhythm and surrounding hill tribes who come to sell and trade their wares by boat. (Note: market is daily except on dark-moon day and full-moon day and the market days depend on the market calendar).

Continue to visit the weaving village of Inphawkhone. The workshops produce some fine shawls, scarves and longyi in silk, cotton and threads drawn from the stems of lotus plants.

Then we are leading to the western shore of Indein Pagoda complex, where you can see the ancient Shan style pagodas enshrined with white color stupas. We continue on foot by passing through the rice fields to reach village of Sae Ma.

In the early evening, continue visiting to one of the monasteries, and on the way back, en-route stop visiting at the Padaung women (long neck ladies) in Ywa Ma village. Transfer back to hotel.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel on Inle Lake.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Inle Lake

After breakfast at your hotel, transfer to Heho airport for domestic flight to Yangon. Upon arrival, we spend the day visiting Yangon.  Visit to the Sule Pagoda, which is located at the heart of Yangon down town area.

Proceed stroll through to the Bogyoke Aung San Market known as Scott Market (closed on Mondays and Public Holidays). A must visit for tourist; here you can see rows of stalls selling hundreds of gemstone, handicrafts, art, clothes and food stores.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant in Yangon.

If time permit, we stop by Karaweik Hall, a unique golden barge on Kandawgyi (Royal Lake) for taking photos. It is a place of perfect view of Shwedagon Pagoda.

Transfer to the Yangon airport for international flight departure.

Meal included: Breakfast, Lunch
Trip ends.