KAYAN BEAUTY 12 Days – 11 Night

Welcome to the International Airport of Yangon. Meet our guide, check in at the hotel and cool off. [Functional time check-in at 2 p.m.].

The east, quiet, charming city of Yangon formerly Rangoon – the city Garden. Its imposing colonial and spiritual patrimony have made it one of Southeast Asia’s most fascinating cities.

The Buddha Statue’s feet are curved with classical signatures, the centre piece of it to introduced Myanmar’s unique Buddhist brand afternoon visit to Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda, a reclining Buddha of 70 meters long.

Afterward, visit Kandawgyi Park and visit Local Tea Shop to experience the fundamental part of life in Burma: drinking tea! Guests are invited to enjoy a coffee or tea with different snacks while sitting among businessmen, family, friends or socializing in the tea shop.

Finally, the Shwedagon Pagoda – one of the most prestigious Buddhist temples in Myanmar. One of the wonders of the world. It was built 2500 years ago, the locals believe. The eight-sided stupa is 99 m high, with gold leaf gilded and 64 smaller stupas surround it.

Visit the huge complex and find out why this temple is so venerated by locals.

Then return to the hotel and stay at Yangon overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Yangon with English speaking]

Flight transfers to Loikaw to the airport. Transfer to hotel and check-in upon arrival at Loikaw Airport.

Visit the local market, Buddha Image, Monastery, Poke Phar Yone, etc.

In the afternoon, visit the shrines Dor Sor Bee and enjoy the city view of the pagoda Taung Kwe.

Loikaw overnight.

Hotel breakfast. To avoid the hot weather, we start to tour early in the morning. Drive on to Pan Pet, offering scenic walks and opportunities to meet the villagers – including women from long necks (Kayah tribe). There are 5 small villages in Panpet village group. For visiting Panpet villages, you can make half day or full day walking. In other villages, customers can watch traditional crafts, visit their home, chart with them, and watch their daily lives. They do not wait for the tourists, and they go their own way every day.

Visit the hamlet of Salong Kana, meet a local kayan craftsman, and have a practical demonstration about how to produce traditional bracelets, Kayan bracelets.

Then go to the last village, called the village of Pemsong. Guests are welcome to offer local tea and snacks in the local house in a traditional way.

We will then have a short 2-hour trek and you can explore special cultural and natural sites important to local people and their way of life.

Pack lunch or a special picnic in the Jungle.

Lastly, return to the first town by car and the trip to the hamlet of Rang Ku where guests can visit small craft shops run by the famous Kayans (popularly known as Long Neck Karen). Enjoy learning Kayan words and interacting with these artistic and fun lovers. Local handicrafts can be purchased. Go back and spend the night in Loikaw.

** The Guide is included in the local community

** Lunch is available with picnic.

[Local guide service in Loikaw with English speaking]

We will go to Loikaw outskirts to explore the villages of Kayaw this morning. We reach the village of Ra-A-Pra-home of Kayaw tribe after 2 hours’ drive. The women wear traditional clothing of the Kayaw tribe in the village.

Start your trekking trip to the village of Ray-So-Pra (1:30 hours walk), tour the village and watch its everyday life and return to Ra-A-Pra. Then go on to a small and authentic village of Kayaw tribe – Htay Kho village (CBT village) (around 40 minutes) – to explore daily life of Kayaw and take part in their daily activity, talk with, and visit.

Have a picnic lunch in the village of Htay Kho. To follow their tradition and culture, visit the church and the Kayaw Tribe small museum. Return to Loikaw at last (about 3 hours). Free transportation to the hotel.

Loikaw overnight.

** The Guide is included in the local community

** Lunch is available with picnic.

** Because of the road conditions, only small van can be used

[Local guide service in Loikaw with English speaking]

We begin our drive to Kakku after breakfast. After 45 minutes (14 miles) we reach the village of Khi/Lisu, from where we can meet the local people like Pao’ and Shan. Visit the town and drive on to Kakku.

The first view of Kakku is amazing: over 5,200 stupas, some 20 meters high, and several Buddha pictures are spread all over the area.

The history of stupa is unclear but most of it is dated to the 11th-13th centuries when Bagan flourished in the same period. Take a walk around the temples and take your time to discover the wonderful and amazing site and the complex structural sculptures and details.

Besides visiting the temples, you will be introduced to the traditions and lives of people by your expert guide Pa-Oh, who will stop to visit nearby towns. Then we have lunch at a restaurant about Kakku train station then we will return to Inle Lake.

Drive to Nyaung Shwe after visiting Kakku (Inle). Overnight in the Inle at the hotel.

[Local Loikaw Guide Service with English-speaking]

We begin our tour around 8:00 a.m. after breakfast.

To explore the local cultural landscape, visit the busy five-day morning market (the market rotates every day in five-day cycles, with the exception of full moon and daylight). Villagers from the village tribes around the village come to the market for sale, trade and selling.

Play at the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda that contains five images of the sacred Buddha and the principal shrine for the lake. Observe the famous leg-rowing fishermen and blooming gardens. Then visit the Monastery of Gopchang [also known as the Monastery of Jumping Cats, although cats can no longer jump].

After lunch, visit Inpawkhone Village to see the hand-weaving fabric and a cheroot factory, which manufactures traditional Burmese cigars.

Then transfer, check in and recreation to the hotel. Inle lake overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Inle with English Speaking]

Hotel breakfast. Airport Transfer and Mandalay Flight.

Upon arrival you will drive to the ancient capital of Myanmar, Amarapura, where you can see the lives of more than 1000 monks at Mahagandaryon Monastery.

It extends over Thaungthaman Lake nearly three quarters of a mile on the Bein footbridge and is widely used in maroon robe by local monks who carry bowls back and forth in monasteries.

The Irrawaddy bridge to Sagging passes through us. Sagging Hill is widely regarded as Myanmar’s religious hub and covers 600 white-painted pagodas and convents, exploring pagodas like Swan Oo Pon Nya Shin and U Min Thone Sae.

From the 14th to the 18th centuries continue to Ava, capital of the city, and on a visit with horse carts to the Monastery of Maenu Okkyaung – built in 1818 by the Chief Queen, Nan Myint, at 27m, Bargayar Monastery – renowned for its wood-cutting of 267 teak pillars.

Back to the town and stop in the former capital Amarapura. Go sunset through the 200-year-old teak bridge, U Bein Bridge.

Return to hotel and recreation. Mandalay overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Mandalay with English speaking]

Following breakfast, come and meet our guide in Mingun at 08:00.

Take a boat ride up the Ayeyarwaddy River to Jetty, enjoy the picturesque scenery of the river, and the local people who work and live in the water.

The world’s largest uncracked bell and unfinished Mingun Pagoda are Mingun Bell weighing over 90 tons and over 3.7 metre.

Walking along the village, making traditional basket-work and artistic items, stopping and interacting with artisans and friendly local residents, and then visit the Hsinbyume Pagoda, a temple built with white washed-up to look like Mount Meru, one of Mingunâ s main attractions.

Then boat to Mandalay, visit to the marble workshop, Shwe Nandaw Kyaung or the monastery of the Golden palace, famous for its complicated wooden sculptures and the Pagoda of Kyauktawgyi to see the enormous Buddha marble.

Discover the Mandalay Hill sunset and have a splendid view of the town and the river of Irrawaddy.

Return to the hotel and Mandalay overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Mandalay with English speaking]

Hotel breakfast. Airport transfers and Bagan flights.

We begin with a high viewpoint over the surrounding plains with spectacular views. This is the perfect introduction to Bagan’s architecture with grandeur and size.

The Golden Stupa, the Ananda Temple – the Bagan masterpiece, the Myingaba Gubyaukgyi Temple, and a nearby visit to Manuha Temple– Huge BudDha Image and the Temple Nan Paya – nice statues of the Buddha and stonework, the Myingaba Gubyaukgyi Temple.

After luncheon, visit the temple of Dhamayangyi – Sulamani Temple, the largest temple in Bagan; the lacquerware workshop of the twelfth century, Baga’s most renowned product. Watch as skilled craftsmen use generations of techniques that create beautiful objects.

Then take a cart along the temples to enjoy the sunset in the plains.

Then return to the hotel and stay in Bagan overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Bagan, English speaking]

Visit the colourful Nyaung Oo local market after breakfast at the hotel.

Then go on 45 minutes to Mt. Popa, the extinct volcano that the ancient Burmese animist spirits or “Nats” are believed to be home. On your way, watch the life of rural areas as palm sweets are produced. We can stop in many places to take pictures and know the landscape. Step 777 to the top with amazing views of the countryside around. The panoramic view of the extinct volcano and the plain leads back to Bagan and back.

Hotel and evening leisure activities, transfer to jetty and sunset cruises along the Ayeyarwaddy River. Return to the Bagan hotel and stay overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Bagan, English speaking]

Hotel breakfast. Transfer back to Yangon airport and flight.

Take the local Circular Train to the outskirts of the city to Yangon Railway Station (20-30 minutes) and watch the varied and vibrant life of rural Burmese people.

Disembark for the Kyi Myin Daing Market, where several roads sell colourful goods. Before returning to Yangon, you can explore the market and meet friendly locals.

Afterwards, Aung San Market – the major Yangon bazaar – visited Bogyoke. San Market. Its colonial architecture and inner cobbled roads, with antiquities, Burmese jewellery and crafts, art galleries and clothing shops, are well-known to it. (Note: Monday and public holidays market are closed).

Return to the hotel and recreation. Yangon overnight.

[Local Guide Service in Yangon with English speaking]

Hotel breakfast. Departure transfers to the airport.

The trip’s end.