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Day
01 Arrival
Arrive at Yangon Airport, after clearing customs and immigration
formalities welcome by our guide and transfer to hotel for
check-in.
Evening visit to one of the world’s most spectacular monuments,
the SHWEDAGON PAGODA.
Overnight at Hotel in Yangon.
Day 02 Excursion to Bago
After breakfast, full day excursion out of Yangon to Bago (80 km -
1 ½ hours). En route, visit and Allied War Graves cemetery near
Htauk Kyant, a handicraft village producing woven bamboo wares, a
tree shrine dedicated to legendary “Nat” and KYAIK PUN Pagoda,
famous for its four giant Buddhas. In Bago sightseeing includes
the SHWEMAWDAW pagoda, over a thousand years old. The 55 meter
long reclining SHWE THALYAUNG Buddha image is among the country’s
most revered. Return to Yangon through rural landscape of rice
fields and small villages.
Overnight at Hotel in Yangon.
Day 03 Excursion to
Thanlyin (Syriam)
After Breakfast, explore the sleepy village Syriam, which was once
a major port. Take a boat to see YE LE PAYA Temple (middle
stream), set on a tiny island in the river. Stroll through the
riverside market and visit two further pagodas before our drive
back to Yangon.
Afternoon visit to Yangon’s Chinatown fruit market, BOGYOKE AUNG
SAN (Scott) Market, with time to browse among the hundreds of
stalls for souvenir bargains and the gilded SULE Pagoda, dating
back over 2,500 years and botahtaung Pagoda beside the Yangon
River.
Overnight at Hotel in Yangon.
Day 04 Departure
After breakfast, a morning of sightseeing, CHAUKHTATGYI, a huge
reclining Buddha Image and KARAWEIK Hall, a ‘hamsa-bird-shaped’
floating Barge on Kandawgyi (Royal Lake).
Transfer to Yangon International Airport for departure flight.
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