Myanmar Odyssey: Yangon, Loikaw, Kalaw, Inle, Mandalay, Bagan, Ngapali, and Beyond

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Overview
Highlights
- Visit Botataung Pagoda
- Meet fisherman, Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, Inn Paw Khon Village and Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery
- Visit to Mahamuni Temple to wash Buddha
- Explore Woodcarving Workshop and Zeigyo market
- Enjoy Balloon over Bagan
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Trip includes
- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All Internal airfare
- All ground transfers
- All excursions with expert English-speaking guides
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Sule Shangrila, Strand, Or Belmond Governor’s Residence
Arriving in Yangon International Airport, you clear customs and immigration. Leaving the airport, you will be met by your guide and transferred to the hotel.
Late...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Sule Shangrila, Strand Or Belmond Governor’s Residence
You have a whirlwind tour of beautiful Yangon in store for you. The city itself is bordered on three sides by water - the Hlaing River on the west and south ...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Sule Shangrila, Strand Or Belmond Governor’s Residence
Spend the day meeting some of the inspiring people that live in Yangon. Gain an insight into their lives by asking questions and listening to their fascinati...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Loikaw Lodge By The Late - Deluxe
After breakfast, you head to the airport to catch a flight to Loikaw. On arrival, you can stop to wash up and then begin to visit the town.
The capital of Kayah St...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Loikaw Lodge By The Late - Deluxe
Kayah State is Myanmar’s smallest, but one with the most ethnic diversity. Today you will sample that diversity! Your first top today is Panpet Village, about 1½ hours ou...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Amara Mountain Resort
You have about a 5-hour drive from Loikaw to Kalaw, a charming hill station surrounded by pine trees and forests. Nearby are villages of Palaung and other hill tribes, who visit the Kalaw ma...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Amara Mountain Resort
Today you can visit the town with its market, different temples and the Catholic Church once under the supervision of the Burmese Father Paul and the Italian Father Angelo Di Meo, who lived ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Inle Princess Resort
From here, you head to Inle, stopping on the way in the hill town of Taunggyi or “Big Mountain,” and the Central Market. The British, seeking a cool respite from the heat of the plain...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Inle Princess Resort
If one had to pinpoint Peter Pan’s “Never Never Land,” Inle Lake is as good a place as any. Travel books use such adjectives as “mystical,” “magical,” or “fairy tale” to describe the 70-mile ...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Conqueror Resort Hotel
After breakfast, you take a boat back across the lake and drive to Pindaya.
Pindaya is a farming town of Danu hill tribes, lying beside Lake Nattamiekan or “Angels” Lake. The name, “Pindaya,” ...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Bagan King Hotel Or Mandalay Hill Resort
Today, you can visit the local market here and then see the paper umbrella factory. Leaving Pindaya, you will head back to Heho to catch the flight to Mandalay on W9 120 (1530/1600). Here you will transfer to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Bagan King Hotel Or Mandalay Hill Resort
In the morning, you will begin to learn about the last seat of Burma’s kings before the British annexation in 1885. Legend has it that an ogress, Canda Mukhi, came...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Bagan King Hotel Or Mandalay Hill Resort
It is truly worthwhile to get up early and watch Buddha get a bath at Mandalay’s religious hub – the Maha Muni Pagoda. Believed to be one of only five likenesses of Buddha...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sanctuary Resort
Leaving Mandalay, you head by car to Pakkoku. On the way, you can stop at Ma-U Village to visit a family that makes incense sticks. In Pakkoku, you wander the local market and...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sanctuary Resort
If Angkor Wat amazes the visitor with its size, Bagan will stun with the extent of its building. Although in its heyday, from about the 11th to 13th century, Bagan mus...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Sule Shangrila, Strand Or Belmond Governor’s Residence
When Anawrahta returned from Pegu with King Manuha in tow, he exiled Manuha to the town of Myinkaba. Lonesome for his home, Manuha helped to turn Myinkaba in...
Meals: Breakfast
The day is free with a car available to you until time to transfer to the airport for your flight out.
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Dates & Availability
Per Person Land Price:
- $5825 - 7-10 People
- $6195 - 4-6 People
Supplement For The Belmond Governor’s Residence: $548/Room/Night Based On Double Occupancy
Supplement For The Strand: $294/Room/Night Based On Double Occupancy
Supplement For The Mandalay Hill Resort: $90/Room/Night Based On Double Occupancy
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Logistics
What's excluded
- International airfare
- Internal airfare YGN/Loikaw/
- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, evacuation, baggage loss/delay, cancellation ins., etc.
- Visa fees
- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
- Tips/gratuity (porters, drivers, local guides, etc.)
- Domestic and international airport taxes
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
Accommodation
- Sule Shangri-La, Strand or Belmond Governor’s Residence
- Loikaw Lodge or Keinnara Lodge
- Amara Mountain Resort
- Inle Princess Resort
- Conqueror Resort Hotel
- Bagan King or Mandalay Hill Resort
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