Yangon – Golden Rock – Mawlamyine – Yangon (4 Days/ 3 Nights)

Arrival Yangon by international flight.
Meeting with your professional guide and assistance on arrival and drive to Kyaikhtiyo Kin Pun (base camp), which situates (~ 5 hours) North- East of Yangon.

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock, is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres (24 ft)) built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by its male devotees.According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of the Buddha’s hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. Another legend states that a Buddhist priest impressed the celestial king with his asceticism and the celestial king used his supernatural powers to carry the rock to its current place, specifically choosing the rock as the resemblance to the monks head. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda.

At Kin Pun base camp ride a public transportation open truck to the Yathe Hill.
From it, take a cable car that will lead you to the upper staging point.
Walking a short platform and reach to the Golden Rock.
Watch the beautiful scenery from the Golden Rock precinct for daybreak.
Visit Golden Rock pagoda & surrounding.
After that, climb down to the Kimpun base camp.

Meals : Lunch and Dinner are your own cost.
Overnight at Kimpun base camp.

After the breakfast, drive to Kyaikkami Yele Paya which is a metal-roofed Buddhist shrine complex perched over the sea and reached via a long two-level causeway; the tower level is submerged during high tide.
Visit Death Railway Museum which was known as the Death Railway due to the many prisoners of war who died constructing the 415 km long line for the Japanese Imperial Army. The line started from Nong Pladuk in Thailand, over the Mae Klong river (which was later renamed River Kwai in 1960) 5 km north of Kanchanaburi, through Payathounzu (Three Pagoda Pass) on the Thailand-Myanmar border and then headed northwest to Thanbyuzayat over rough and rugged terrain. Only 112 km of line ran within the boundaries of Burma.
Visit Wein Sein Tawya, the world’s largest reclining Buddha (~200 m) and its overview scenery. In the afternoon, you’ll be check-in at hotel in Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State with a population of almost 300,000 people. Formerly known as Moulmein, it was once a thriving teak port and the administrative capital of British in Lower Burma.

Overnight at hotel in Mawlamyine.
Meals : Lunch and Dinner are your own cost.

After breakfast at the hotel, visit to the Mawlamyine Market to observe the trading of local products.
Visit Kyaikthanlan pagoda on the eastern ridge of town which is thought to be the setting where Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem, ‘The Road to Mandalay’, Queen Sein Don Monastery for its fine carvings.
Visit Belu Island by boat (~ 1hr) which is known locally as Ogre Island. You can learn the local handicraft displays can provide a handy framework such as rubber band making, bamboo hat fabrication, brick-making factory, tobacco pipes, cheroots, walking sticks, weaving and old fashioned slate writing boards.

Bilu Island is an island in Chaungzon Township, Mon State, located west of Mawlamyine. The island is roughly the size of Singapore, and inhabited by 200,000 people.The people in this island depend on some interesting home industries such as black boards for schools, rubber bands, cane products, wooden pipes, pencils, pens and tobacco.

Visit Thahtone Shwe Sayan Pagoda which was built by King Thuriya Sanda. and believed to have enshrined eight hair relics of Kakusana Buddha. the staff of Gonaguna Buddha. The emerald alms bowl of Kassapa Buddha and four tooth relics of Gautama Buddha, Kyaikmaraw Pagoda which is the main Buddha image sits in the position of the legs hanging down as if sitting on a chair and was the temple built by Queen Shin Saw Pu in 1455 in the late Mon regional style and Kyaikpawlaw Pagoda.
Proceed to return to Yangon.

Meals : Lunch and Dinner are your own cost.
Overnight at hotel in Yangon.

After the breakfast, you will go to colossal reclining Buddha Chaukhtatkyi and a Cavernous Temple with Big Buddha Statue Ngar Htat Gyi which is another good place for your peace and tranquility.
Visit Shwedagon Pagoda rises 326ft (99.3m) above its base. Erected more than 2500 years ago and enshrining eight hairs of Buddha placed in a treasure chamber deep under its base. It is the highest symbol of the people’s devotion to Buddha.

The Shwedagon Pagoda is also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda, is a gilded stupa and the 326-foot-tall (99 m) pagoda is situated on Singuttara Hill, to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, and dominates the Yangon skyline. It is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa. These relics include the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Koāgamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa, and eight strands of hair from the head of Gautama.

Proceed to Bogyoke Aung San Market (Scott Market) the famous two-storey market that sells typical traditional Myanmar crafts. (closed on every Monday & public holidays!!)
You will be transferred to the airport for your departure.