Tour Myanmar With Ease - 14 Days

Flights

Intra-flight from Yangon to Bagan included. Intra-flight from Mandalay to InLe Lake included. Intra-flight from InLe Lake to Ngapali Beach included. Intra-flight from Ngapali Beach to Yangon included. As we have travellers from all over the world, flights before and after the tour are not included in the tour price and you need to arrange these separately by yourself once your tour is guaranteed. As we specialise in organising the best tours around the world for you, we are unable to advise on flight prices or book flights on your behalf. We recommend that you do not book your flights until your place on the tour has been confirmed. Check out the following link which is powered by Skyscanner to book your flight - https://flights.tourradar.com

Accommodation

13 nights in twin-share rooms at 3-star hotels. Accommodation upgrades are available on the ‘Book Now’ page.

Guide

English-speaking driver and guides throughout tour.

Meals

13 Breakfasts. 1 Lunch (on cruise).

Others

Day ferry cruise from Mandalay to Bagan. 3 Days leisure at Ngapali Beach. Arrival and departure airport transfers. Intra-flight from Yangon to Bagan included. Intra-flight from Mandalay to InLe Lake included. Intra-flight from InLe Lake to Ngapali Beach included. Intra-flight from Ngapali Beach to Yangon included.

Transport

Arrival transfer. Intra-flight from Yangon to Bagan included. Intra-flight from Mandalay to InLe Lake included. Intra-flight from InLe Lake to Ngapali Beach included. Intra-flight from Ngapali Beach to Yangon included. Quality air-conditioned private cars throughout tour. Departure transfer.

Not included:

Others

Entrance fees - AUD$70 approx. Other meals, snacks and drinks. Pre and post-tour accommodation.

Insurance

Insurance is not included. Travel insurance is required for this tour. Please make sure you are adequately covered. If you require travel insurance, TourRadar has partnered up with World Nomads to provide a hassle-free experience. More information can be found here (http://www.tourradar.com/travel-insurance).

Optional

Optional experiences are available on this tour for an additional cost and will be provided to you with your finalised travel documents.

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Day 1 Day 1: Yangon Arrival
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Yangon Arrival

“Mingalabar” – “Welcome to Myanmar” at the airport by EMH’s tour guide and transfer team. We then transfer you to the hotel. The remainder of the day is at leisure.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Meal is not included on this day.
Day 2 Day 2: Yangon Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Yangon Tour

After breakfast at the hotel, we’ll set off to explore the Yangon city.

The highlights are:

- Walk around the city center to enjoy the city being busy with the sellers on the street and also the pedestrians and Colonial Style buildings;

- Next, Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda, the colossal reclining Buddha;

- Karaweik Hall & Royal Lake for Photo stop;

- Explore Bogyoke Market (Scott Market) which is the best place for shopping in the country;

- Enjoy sunset at Shwedagon Pagoda, the soul of Yangon.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 3 Day 3: Yangon - Bagan - Temples Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Yangon - Bagan - Temples Tour

In the early morning, take a short flight to Bagan. Once at Bagan, your tour guide will take you around its wonderful scenery and architecture.

Bagan is a truly mesmerizing destination, and a favourite of many travellers. Renowned as the city of four million pagodas, this is one of the richest archaeological sites in Asia. Today there are more than 2,000 pagodas, temples and monasteries — most built during the Bagan Dynasty, founded by King Anawrahta in 1044.

Firstly, we’ll go to lively Nyaung U Market. This Nyaung U Market provides a great photo opportunity, and also the chance for tourists to mingle with the local Myanmar people, and watch how they conduct their daily lives. Next, we will start sightseeing as below.

- Ananda Temple (the architectural masterpiece of a millennium);

- Hti-Lo-Min-Lo Temple (a double-storied building with artistic stucco works);

- Shwe-Zi-Gon Pagoda (considered a prototype of all future such temples).

If time allows, we will visit more places of this UNESCO world heritage site.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 4 Day 4: Half Day Bagan Sightseeing By E-Bike (By Tuk-Tuk On Request)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Half Day Bagan Sightseeing By E-Bike (By Tuk-Tuk On Request)

After breakfast at hotel, join your guide for an e-bike tour of Bagan. We’ll start our adventure by exploring the village of Taungbe. We’ll have about half an hour to ride around the village, and you’ll get to visit a small morning market and meet with a local family, who will share with you their story of local life in Myanmar. We’ll also visit a 150-year-old wooden monastery that’s in the village.

After another short ride, we’ll arrive at the spectacular Shwegugyi Paya. Its name translates to “Great Golden Cave,” so we’re going to say it’s pretty spectacular.

We’ll then ride to reach the next village, Myingabar, which is famous for its bamboo products. From there, it’s a 10-minute ride past toddy palm trees to reach Dhammayangyi Pagoda — the largest Buddhist temple in Bagan.

We’ll ride back to Nyaung U for lunch at the local restaurant, cost is at your own, before riding back to your hotel.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 5 Day 5: Sailing To Mandalay
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Sailing To Mandalay

Your day will be started with a beautiful sunrise from the upper deck of RV PANORAMA, enjoying breakfast on upper deck under the warm sunlight and gentle breeze. Upstream from Bagan to Mandalay, exploring the Ayeyarwaddy will give you unforgettable memories. Delicious Myanmar cuisine will be served you for lunch and you will have a relax time for sunbathing in the sun deck. As an additional service, our crew team will demonstrate different ways of wearing Myanmar Traditional Longyi (garment worn by Myanmar people) and Thanatkha (fragrant paste made from the bark of Thanatkha tree). Enjoy the gorgeous sunset moment and arrive at your destination.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 6 Day 6: Mandalay Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Mandalay Tour

After breakfast at hotel, drive to a promenade U Bein teak bridge, the world’s longest teak structure at 1.2 km / 3.4 mile long.

Next, you will visit to MaharGandarYone monastery, where you can see a thousand Buddhist monks and novices line up every morning, at 10:30 am, to receive their meal of the day at MaharGandarYone Monastery.

Then, go to a “must visit in Mandalay” Mahamuni Buddha Temple. Learn more about the craftwork for which Mandalay is famous by visiting workshops and cottage industries. You’ll see gold-leaf techniques, wood carving and kalaga tapestry weaving.

For lunch, we’ll go to a popular tea house. Tea houses are centre of social and commercial life in Myanmar. You can see all kinds of people here, from business people and brokers to students and families all doing their daily business or just relaxing and socializing.

After lunch, we’ll visit:

- Mandalay Royal Palace, the last royal palace of the last Burmese monarchy;

- KuThoDaw Pagoda, known as the world’s biggest book;

- ShweNanDaw Monastery (Golden Palace Monastery), famous for its wood carving;

- Evening highlights is Mandalay Hill where you can enjoy 360 – degree view of Mandalay from the top.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 7 Day 7: Mandalay - Inle Lake
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Mandalay - Inle Lake

After breakfast at hotel, take the short flight to Heho. Once at Heho, meet your transfer team. From here, it is a scenic one-hour drive to the village of NyaungShwe, the gateway to the magnificent Inle Lake. Upon arrival, check in the hotel. The remainder of the day is at leisure.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 8 Day 8: Inle Lake Boat Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Inle Lake Boat Tour

Looking down over the lake from the Taunggyi road, Inle lies in an enormous carpet of greenery. Dotted around the lake are the stilt-house villages and floating gardens of the Intha tribe. The Intha technique of leg rowing – where one leg is wrapped around the paddle to drive the blade through the water in a snake-like motion – is unique.

With our Inle Lake Boat Trip Day tour, you will experience a unique way of life that has lived on through generations, whilst exploring the culturally significant surrounds that form part of this beautiful region of Myanmar.

You will be provided with a life jacket and easy seat for each person on the boat. This early morning tour offers magnificent scenery and the chance to observe the daily life of locals, who are mostly fishermen and plantation farmers. Take good photos of leg rowers of Intha (people from Inlay) situated only in this part of the world.

Visit to the Phaung Daw Oo, the four revered golden Buddha images from the pagoda, which are ferried around the lake in a gilded barge shaped like a Hintha (the golden swan of Burmese legend) visiting all the pagodas in the area.

Visit to the Silver Smith Shops, Silk Weaving Workshops and the Lotus Weaving Workshop; all unique features of Inle Lake. Also visit a cheroot factory, where the cigars are still made by hand in the traditional way.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 9 Day 9: Inle Lake - Indein - Ywama Boat Trip
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Inle Lake - Indein - Ywama Boat Trip

After breakfast, it’s back on the water, sailing in a southerly direction along the western bank towards InDein. Passing through the busy village of Ywama, the largest on the Lake, with many channels and tall teak houses on stilts; enter a long, often tree-lined canal, either side of which farmers cultivate their land against the backdrop of the Shan Hills.

Disembark at the central marketplace at InDein Village and follow the old covered path that leads to a 13th century monastery, and the very impressive ruins of over a hundred ancient pagodas, some still well hidden by the lush deep vegetation all around.

Upon reaching the main stupa atop a hill, stop to enjoy sensational views of the surrounding mountains, and down the valley to Inle Lake in the distance. Return to the lake and transfer back to your hotel.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 10 Day 10: Inle Lake - Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Inle Lake - Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

After breakfast at hotel, you will be transferred to the airport to take the flight to Ngapali Beach. The flight time will approximately be 1 and half hour. Upon your arrival, you will be met and transferred to the airport. The rest of the day is at leisure in Ngapali Beach.

Without doubt one of the most impressive beaches in South-East Asia, let alone Myanmar, Ngapali Beach is a series of long bays of fine white sand leading down to crystal clear water. Until recently served by a small handful of decent hotels, more are now being built as the country’s tourist industry flourishes. Although this means that Myanmar’s best known seaside village is more developed than it used to be, the greater choice of good quality accommodation is undeniably welcome.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 11 Day 11: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

Enjoy your day at leisure in Ngapali beach. You can simply relax on the beach, swim in the waters or take a biking excursion to nearby villages to meet local fishermen and observe their daily lifestyles. If you are seeking a more adventurous experience, take a boat trip to swim, snorkel or dive around the surrounding islands.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 12 Day 12: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

Spend another leisure day at the beach. You can simply relax on the beach, swim in the waters or take a biking excursion to nearby villages to meet local fishermen and observe their daily lifestyles. If you are seeking a more adventurous experience, take a boat trip to swim, snorkel or dive around the surrounding islands.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 13 Day 13: Ngapali Beach - Yangon
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 13: Ngapali Beach - Yangon

Afternoon, you will be transferred to the airport to fly back to Yangon. The flight time will approximately be an hour. Upon your arrival in Yangon, you will be met and transferred to the hotel. The remainder of the day is at leisure.

Accommodation: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast
Day 14 Day 14: Fly Back Home
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 14: Fly Back Home

Breakfast and free time until time to go to the airport for departure flight. Then, transfer you to the Yangon International Airport three hours prior according to your flight departure time.

Meals: Breakfast

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Myanmar With Ease - 14 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Myanmar With Ease - 14 Days

Day 1: Yangon Arrival

Day 2: Yangon Tour

Day 3: Yangon - Bagan - Temples Tour

Day 4: Half Day Bagan Sightseeing By E-Bike (By Tuk-Tuk On Request)

Day 5: Sailing To Mandalay

Day 6: Mandalay Tour

Day 7: Mandalay - Inle Lake

Day 8: Inle Lake Boat Tour

Day 9: Inle Lake - Indein - Ywama Boat Trip

Day 10: Inle Lake - Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

Day 11: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

Day 12: Ngapali Beach - Day At Leisure

Day 13: Ngapali Beach - Yangon

Day 14: Fly Back Home

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