9-Day Myanmar Culture and Religious Tour with Bagan and Inle Lake

• Meet your guide and driver upon arrival at Yangon International Airport and transfer to your hotel for leisure time.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: None

• Meet your Myanmar tour guide at your hotel in the morning.
• Visit Bogyoke Aung San Market, where you will have a chance to browse Myanmar crafts.
• Head over to Mahabandoola Park for a photo stop with a panoramic view of the city, and then see the colonial buildings in Yangon's downtown area.
• Transfer to the train station for a short tour on the Yangon Circular Train. During the trip, you will gain a unique perspective on the city's daily life and its surroundings.
• Disembark at Hledan Station and visit the local food market.
• Finish your tour with a visit to the awe-inspiring Shwe Dagon Pagoda, which towers over all of Yangon. It is perhaps the most beautiful pagoda complex in Asia and is one sight that no visitor to Myanmar should miss.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel.

• After breakfast, drive to Yangon Airport for your flight to Nyaung U for the Bagan archaeological tour.
• Upon arrival, enjoy highlights including Damayarzaka Pagoda, Shwegugyi, and Thabyinnyu. Other highlights include the mural paintings at Gubyukggyi and Abeyadana Temple, famed for their mural paintings about Mahayana Buddhism.
• Enjoy Bagan's famous sunset from an excellent spot selected by your guide.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel

• Enjoy your free time or explore on your own.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel.

• After breakfast, drive to Mandalay for around 4 hours.
• Visit another former royal capital, Inwa, founded in 1364 and lasting nearly 400 years as a royal capital. Highlights include the leaning tower of Ava, Maha Aung Mye Bonzan, a brick-and-stucco monastery, and the elegant teakwood monastery Bagaya Kyaung.
• In the evening, visit Amarapura and take a sunset boat ride on Taungtaman Lake around U Bein Bridge, where you will have a chance to enjoy the beautiful sunset, along with one bottle of Myanmar beer on the boat. You may walk across the beautiful and unique U Bein Bridge, the longest teakwood bridge in the world.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel.

• Visit the jade market downtown, the most important in a country that owns more than 80% of the world's reserves of this precious stone.
• Then go to Mandalay Jetty and ride upriver to Mingun, best known for its gigantic unfinished stupa. The Mingun Pahtodawgyi, intended to be the largest in the world at a projected height of 150 meters, now lies ravaged by earthquakes on the western banks of the Irrawaddy.
• Visit the Mingun Bell, which was moved from the zedi after the earthquake. The Mingun Bell is now housed in a new shrine building and is said to be the largest hanging uncracked bell in the world.
• Return to Mandalay. The afternoon sightseeing tour of Mandalay includes:
  • the highly revered Mahamuni Pagoda
  • a gold leaf hammering craft shop
  • Shwenandaw Monastery, noted for its exquisite wood carvings
  • Kuthodaw Pagoda, renowned as the world's largest book for its 729 stone slabs containing the entire Buddhist scriptures
  • If time permits, Mandalay Hill for a view over the city and Ayeyarwaddy River

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel.

• Fly to Heho and, upon arrival, drive to Nyaung Shwe Jetty to begin your sightseeing by long-tail boat to Inn Paw Khone Village, where you can see the lotus and silk weaving industries.
• Then continue to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the most highly revered monastery in the Inle Lake area. It houses five ancient images of the Buddha that are completely covered in gold leaf.
• Visit Thale Oo Village, an authentic agricultural village on the shore of the lake. It is surrounded by abundant rice fields, and you can observe the difference in the vegetation.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel.

• In the morning, your boat will take you to the crumbling 17th-century pagodas at Indeinon on the western shore of Inle Lake, weaving through narrow creeks as you make your way to the pagodas.
• Explore ethnic Pao villages and then return to Nyaung Shwe.

Accommodation: Superior Hotel

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel

• Transfer to Heho Airport for your flight to Yangon.

• Transfer to the international terminal airport for your onward departure flight, or transfer to the hotel in Yangon.

Meals Provided: Breakfast at the hotel

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(Note: The itinerary described above may change depending on weather conditions, domestic flight time changes, and cancellation.)