7-Day Myanmar Highlights Tour from Yangon with Bagan and Inle Lake

• Pick up at your hotel by the Burmese tour guide. This tour is suitable for young and adult tourists.

• Being a capital for many decades, visit Sule Pagoda and downtown Yangon, suitable for a walking tour.

• Continue the visit to Strand Hotel, the first hotel in Myanmar and Botahtaung PPagoda and proceed to Chaukhtatgyi reclining Buddha Image.

• In the late afternoon, visit the most beautiful pagoda in Myanmar, Kyauktawgyi Pagoda and white elephants.

• Continue the visit to Kabaraye Pagoda and Scott Market, a tourist shopping paradise. 

• Proceed to China town to see Platform Market. 

• Photo stop at the Karaweik Hall royal floating barge. 

• Nothing will prepare you for Shwedagon Pagoda, with its glittering gold Stupa. At the Pagoda, observe local pilgrims and monks offering their devotions and enjoy the fantastic sunset view at Shwedagon Pagoda. 

Overnight stay in the hotel.

Meals included: Breakfast.

• Transfer to Yangon airport for domestic flight to Bagan. 

• Upon arrival in Bagan, transfer to hotel. The tour guide will pick you from the airport. 

• In the morning, visit a selection of the most important monuments, such as Shwe Zigon Pagoda, the first and most crucial architectural pagoda. 

• Visit Ananda Temple, the most beautiful, the best and the first Myanmar architectural temple and a masterpiece of 11th-century architecture. Most of the artifacts are still original and preserved in the temple. 

• See Myinkabar Gubyauk Gyi, the best mural painting temple in Bagan. 

• After that, visit more monuments, and enjoy the sunset at one of the monuments. 

Overnight stay in the hotel.

Meals included: Breakfast

Meals included: None

• Pick up by the tour guide from your hotel. 

• On the way, see Toddy, plum juice, oil, and peanut plant and enjoy a 1-hour break. 

• From your hotel, drive to Mount Popa (46 km, about 1 hour), home to Myanmar’s intriguing ‘nats’ (spirits).

• Climb the 777 steps to the top of Mount Popa, which provide fabulous views from the top. 

• After coming back from the Mountain, on the way, enjoy the Natural Village visit.

• Come back to Bagan. 

Overnight stay in the hotel.

Meals included: Breakfast.

• Transfer to Bagan airport and then take the domestic flight to Inle Lake.

• Upon arrival, the station guide will pick you from the airport. 

• Then, visit Shwe Yaunghwe Kyaung (monastery) and Kan Gyi Kyaung Monastery in Nyaung Shwe. 

• Drive up through pine-clad hills to Taunggyi (about 1 hour, 31 km), the capital of southern Shan State and a former British hill station. 

• Approximately 2 hours drive from Taunggyi in the countryside inhabited by the Pa-O people lie the ‘lost’ ruins of Kakku, a pagoda encircled by dozens of small stupas. Little is known about the origins of this unusual place – the Pa-O believed that the original pagoda dates back some 2,000 years. 

• Wander through the stupas, which are decorated with fine stucco work and Buddha images – some in good repair, others not. 

• Visit a Pa-O village and a large monastery on the way back to Taunggyi. 

• Continue from here to Nyaung Shwe, where you board your boat and return to Taunggyi.

Overnight stay at the hotel.

Meals included: Breakfast.

• Transfer to Bagan airport and then take the domestic flight to Inle Lake.

• Upon arrival, the station guide will pick you up from the airport. 

• Then, visit Shwe Yaunghwe Kyaung (monastery) and Kan Gyi Kyaung Monastery in Nyaung Shwe. 

• From where you drive up through pine-clad hills to Taunggyi (about 1 hour, 31 km), the capital of southern Shan State and a former British hill station. 

• Approximately 2 hours drive from Taunggyi in the countryside inhabited by the Pa-O people lie the ‘lost’ ruins of Kakku, a pagoda encircled by dozens of small stupas. Little is known about the origins of this unusual place – the Pa-O believed that the original pagoda dates back some 2,000 years. 

• Wander through the stupas, which are decorated with fine stucco work and Buddha images – some in good repair, others not. 

• Visit a Pa-O village and a large monastery on the way back to Taunggyi. 

• Continue from here to Nyaung Shwe, where you board your boat and return to Taunggyi.

Overnight stay in the hotel.

Meals included: Breakfast.

• Arrive in the evening at Yangon Domestic airport.

• Relax in the hotel.

• In the morning, wake up and, according to your flight, go to Yangon International Airport.

Tour ends.