Burma: Land of Golden Temples & Floating Gardens

Highlights

• Explore Rangoon on a guided walking tour
• Welcome Briefing before witnessing the most sacred Buddhist site in all of Burma—Shwedagon Pagoda
• Discover local culture and traditions on a tour of Burma
• Discover Bagan's thousands of pagodas during a hot air balloon ride You may wish to rise early this morning for an optional hot-air balloon ride
• Experience Dhammayangyi the largest temple in Myanmar
• View the U Bein Bridge near mandalay
• Visit a local village inhabited by members of the Pa-O tribe, one of the many ethnic minorities in Burma

What's this trip about?

A century ago, Rudyard Kipling described Burma as a place “quite unlike any land you know about.” Isolated from the world in the recent past, Burma—now known as Myanmar—remains a magical destination, yet one shrouded in mystery. When you visit Burma with GWT, you will watch the sun glinting off a 2,500-year-old temple clad in 60 tons of pure gold in Rangoon … witness “one-leg” rowers casting fishing nets and farmers tending to floating gardens on Inle Lake … see a procession of saffron-robed monks walking across the world’s longest teak footbridge near Mandalay … meet with members of hill tribes who cling to ancient ways of life and animist traditions in Kalaw … view thousands of mysterious pagodas dotting the golden plains of Bagan … and much more. Join GWT and discover the most unspoiled corner of Asia—a place quite unlike anywhere else on Earth.

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