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Day 01: Arrive at Heho Airport (L,D)
Arrive at Heho Airport and transfer (25 km – 1 hour) to NYAUNG
SHWE and transfer to your Hotel.
After lunch, a boat excursion on Inle Lake will include sights of
the famous legrowers, typical floating gardens, local methods of
fishing and village life. Visits are made to PHAUNG DAW OO Pagoda,
NGA PHE KYAUNG Monastery, famous for its jumping cats trained by
monks, the weaving village of Inpawkhon and other sights.
Dinner and overnight at Hotel in Nyaung Shwe.
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02: Excursion on Inle Lake (B,L,D)
After an early breakfast, boat journey to the western shore of
Inle Lake to visit the Inn Thein Pagoda complex, found after
following a stair path lined up with magnificent columns. Explore
the colourful market (on market days only) in Inn Thein. Continue
on foot (about 2 hours) or by ox-drawn carriage (if available) to
the U Daung Mountain range to visit the mountain monastery.
After lunch in a simple local restaurant or boxed lunch, continue
by boat to the eastern shore and hike up (about 2 hours) to the
village of Tha Le Oo to explore the simple life of the Pa O Tribe.
Return to Inle Lake via a mountain pagoda offering panoramic views
of the region and travel by boat to Nyaung Shwe.
Dinner and overnight at Nyaung Shwe.
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03: Inle Lake - Pindaya - Kalaw (by car) (B,L,D)
After breakfast, drive (90 km – 2 ½ hours) to PINDAYA. Visit
Pindaya Caves, unique for the thousands of Buddha images placed
there by pilgrims over many centuries.
After an early lunch, continue by road (50 km – 1 ½ hours) to
KALAW, a cool and charming hill station, which is a marketing
center for hill-tribe folk from surrounding regions. Trekking tour
to the Palaung Villages of Ywathit, Taryaw and Nyaung Gon (about 4
hours). The animist Palaung Tribe was amongst the earliest
inhabitants in Myanmar and has kept the tradition to live with
several families in ‘long-houses’, cultivating cash crops and
tanapet for Burmese cheroot cigars.
Dinner and overnight in Kalaw.
Day 04: Kalaw - Heho
Airport (B)
Visit the local market (on market days only) before transfer (50
km – 1 ½ hours) to Heho airport for departure flight.
End of Service
Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda
Festival
18 Day Festival (03 Oct 05 - 20 Oct 05)
The Best day 09 Oct 05
For Buddha images are ceremoniously tugged clockwise around
the lake on the royal barge by leg-rowing boats. The return
home on third waning day (31 Oct 04).
The best day to visit is 19 Oct 04: Buddha images have been
towed by small boat from Lin Kin village to Nyaungshwe as part
of the procession.
Inle Lake
Inle Lake, the second largest natural lake in Myanmar located
in the middle of the greatest depression in Nyaungshwe valley
between the two parallel mountain ranges running north to
south in the southern Shan State.
The Intha (who live in the Inle Lake)
are devout Buddhist at that the most revered 5 Buddha statues
are kept in Phaungdaw Oo Pagoda are widely believed to have
mystic miraculous powers. Thus the Buddha statutes have been
gilded time and time again by many devotees from all over the
country that gradually they seem contorted out of recognition
of it original shape and turn in to 5 golden balls. The
greatest event of the celebration of the Phaungdaw Oo Buddhas
Images peregrination in the month of Thadin-gyut [October]
where the Intha’s would place the revered statutes on a
decorated royal barge surrounding by canoes and power boats,
making the Inle region tour. Phaungdaw O Pagoda festival draws
celebrant from far and near not only for the homage of Buddha
statutes about also for great fun fair and for the fame of
Intha’s unique leg-rowing competitions. |
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