Charming Heritage Tour (6 Days/5 Nights)

Arrival Mandalay by international flight.
Meeting with your professional guide and assistance on arrival and transfer to the hotel.
Visit to the revered Mahamuni Bouddha Image, as well as visit the workshop where gold leaf is produced.

The Mahamuni Buddha Temple, Buddhist temple and major pilgrimage site, is highly venerated in Burma and central to many people’s lives, as it is seen as an expression of representing the Buddha’s life. There is face washing ceremony in the early morning at there and many tourists come and enjoy it.

An afternoon tour begins with Shwenandaw Monastery noted for its exquisite wood carvings, followed by Kuthodaw Pagoda, which is known as the World’s Biggest Book because of its stone slabs consisting of Buddhist scriptures.
To end the day with panoramic views of the city and a spectacular sunset at Mandalay Hill.

Meals : Lunch and dinner areyour own cost.
Overnight at hotel in Mandalay.

After the breakfast at hotel, drive to Sagaing, considered by Myanmar Buddhists to be the holiest site in the country and visit to Sagaing Hill.
Then drive to Mingun and visit Mingun village which is 11 km north of Mandalay.
Visit Pahtodawgyi, a giant brick stupa is constructed in 1970, Mingun Bell (90 tons), one of the world’s largest hanging bells was cast in 1808; Mya Theindan Pagoda (1817) has unique architecture style which symbolized the Seven Seas of Buddhist cosmology.
We will end the day by watching a beautiful sunset at U Bein, a crossing that spans the Taungthaman Lake and the oldest and longest teakwood bridge in the world.

Meals : Lunch and dinner are your own cost.
Overnight at hotel in Mandalay.

After the breakfast, drive to Monywa (~ 140 km, ± 3 hour drive) and visit the Mohnyin Than Buddhay temple where over 500,000 Buddha images are seated and a Hollywood fantasy specialist could have been godfather here – but see for yourself (without fail!).
Then continue to the visit of a religious sanctuary impressing Boddhi – Ta – Htaung that possesses thousands of the banyans underneath with Buddha’s statuaries, one of the biggest lying Buddha (more than 100m of length) and visit Laykyun Sekkyar Standing Buddha.

Meals : Lunch and dinner are your own cost.
Overnight at hotel in Monywa.

After breakfast, visit of the 947 caves that make up the complex were built between the 14th and 18th centuries, and contain ornate mural paintings and hundreds of Buddha statues of Po Win Taung. The partitions are decorated of wall paintings illustrating the stages traditional bouddhiques as well as the profane stages.
And then, transfer to the harbor of Pakkoku (140 km/~3 hr) while crossing typical villages.
Embarking on board of a private boat and restful coming down on the Irrawaddy stream (~ 2 hr), while crossing picturesque landscapes until Bagan.
Arrived to Bagan and a vehicle will drive you to your hotel in Bagan.

Meals : Lunch and dinner are your own cost.
Overnight at hotel in Bagan.

After the breakfast, visit the colorful Nyaung U Market, Shwezigon Pagoda, a circular pagoda fully covered with gold leaf coating. You walk around the outside of this bell shaped pagoda and take some beautiful photos.
Then, visit the magnificent Ananda Temple, Ananda Okyaung, a Lacquer-ware workshops and the massive Dhamayangyi Temple.

After breakfast at the hotel, an awaiting car will transfer you to the airport for your flight back to Yangon.
When you arrive in Yangon, visit the Shwedagon Pagoda; the world famous glittering gold stupa, believed to have been built more than 2500 year ago.