Itinerary

1. Amarapura, Mingun, Sagaing & Innwa Private Tour

   • Meet your Burmese driver at your hotel at 09:00 am and begin the tour to Amarapura.

   • Visit the Mahargandaryone Monastery: A pleasantly meditative place for most of the day. One of the largest teaching monasteries in Myanmar founded around 1914. 

   • Saunter at the U Bein Bridge: The world's largest teak footbridge gently curves 1300 yd across shallow Taung Thaman Lake. A great time to visit is during sunset. 

   • Explore the weaving industry, one of the main professions of Amarapura people. Over one hundred looms are used to obtain beautiful and intricate design patterns as silk.

   • Head towards Mingun city and visit Pathodawgyi Pagoda, a roughly 240ft cube on a 460ft lower terrace. Described as the world's largest pile of bricks. 

   • Proceed to Mya Thein Tan Pagoda, a large pagoda on the northern side of Mingun in the Sagaing Region. The pagoda is painted white and is modelled on the physical description of the Buddhist mythological mountain, Mount Meru. 

   • Marvel at the Giant Lion, the Mingun temple, is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790.

   • See the Mingun Bell, a bronze bell weighing 55,555 visses (90 tons). It is 13ft high and over 16ft across at the lip. Entrance Information-5000MMK for one person.

   • Move to Sagaing city and visit Soon U Ponya Shin Pagoda. The central 97ft-high gilded stupa was originally conceived in 1312. The most important of the temples on Sagaing Hill's southern crown. 

   • Explore the U Min Thonze Caves, famed for its crescent-shaped colonnade of 45 buddha images.

   • Proceed to Innwa or Ava and visit Maha Aungmye Bonzan. Built unusually of stucco-covered brick, the 1822 royal monastery temple is a rare survivor from the Ava era.

   • Gaze at the Watch Tower, 90ft leaning tower of Inwa. Beautiful, especially high but wide views from the top are great.

   • Move to the Yadanar Semi. A small but photogenic ensemble brings together three sitting buddhas and a handful of old brick stupas shaded by a giant flame tree.

   • Head towards the Bagaya Monastery, Inwa's most memorable attraction teak monastery built in 1834. It's supported on 267 teak posts, the largest 60ft high and 9ft in circumference, creating a prayer hall that is cool, dark and feels genuinely ancient. (Remark: You will stop at Innwa boat jetty after Sagaing. And then you will rent a boat to visit Innwa city and also rent a horse-cart to go to Innwa city.)