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MM-006 |
Myanmar
Odyssey |
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7
Days / 6 Nights Package |
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ROUTE
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BANGKOK
- YANGON - BAGAN - MINGUN - SAGIANG - AMARAPURA
- BAGAN - YANGON - BANGKOK |
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DAY
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BANGKOK
- YANGON |
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Departure from
Bangkok to Yangon, meet your guide in Yangon
international airport and transfer to hotel.
Tour of Yangon City includes Chaukhtatgyi
Pagoda - a colossal reclining Buddha Image,
Sule Pagoda surrounded by colonial era buildings
in the heart of city. See many different lives
of people, Yangon jetty. Continue to Bogyoke
Aung San (Scott) market and evening visit
to Shwedagon Pogoda - over 2500 years old
and world famous stupa. Your first night of
stay at Royal lake side Kandawgyi Palace hotel
in Yangon. |
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Meals:
none |
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DAY
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YANGON
- MANDALAY |
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Early morning breakfast
at hotel and car transfer to airport to fly
to Mandalay. Meet local guide and car at Mandalay
airport. Transfer to your hotel in Mandalay.
Today sightseeing in Mandalay will be: Maha
Myat-muni pagoda - a bronze Buddha Image cast
during the life-time of Buddha himself, Atumshi
monastry, and Mandalay palace. Afternoon and
evening visit Kuthodaw pagoda - known as the
world biggest book of Buddhist teachings, Shwe
Inn Bin monastry - noted for its exquisite wood
carvings and Mandalay famous local craft industries
such as gold-leaf making, Embroidery work etc.
Evening time will be on Mandalay hill to have
panoramic views of Mandalay plain and its environ
at sunset. Overnight hotel located at the foot
of Mandalay hill. |
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Meals:
B |
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DAY
03 |
MANDALAY
- MINGUN - SAGAING - AMARAPURA, INWA |
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Breakfast at hotel.
In the morning we will arrange a private boat
trip from Mandalay to Mingun
on the Ayeyarwaddy river (11km upriver boat
trip from Mandalay). Visit one of the world's
largest, Mingun bell, and the un-finished yet
still massive Mingun Pahto-daw-gyi Pagoda, etc.
Back to Mandalay by boat and continue by car
to Sagaing on the western bank of the Ayreyarwaddy.
Visit "Kaung Mu Daw" pagoda, silver
workshops, and the Sagaing hill range dotted
with pagodas and meditation centers. You can
also have a panoramic view from the hill.
Late afternoon cross the Ayeyarwaddy river and
visit Amarapura (an ancient capital of Kongbaung
Dynasty in 1783). Visit Mahar-ga-na-yone monastry
to observe the daily life of the monks studying
Buddha's scriptures, Kyauktawgyi pagoda, local
silk and cotton weaving industry. Then proceed
to another old capital, Innwa, a small town
close to Amarapura. Visit "Nan Myint"
watch tower, "Maha-Aung-Mye-Bonzon"
monastry and "Bagara monastry". Then
stroll on the U Bein bridge (2km long wooden
bridge across Taung Tha Man lake) at sunset
time. Overnight at hotel in Mandalay. |
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Meals: B |
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DAY
04 |
AMARAPURA
- CRUISE DOWN TO BAGAN |
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(have to be MON,
TUE, THU, FRI or SAT)
Early breakfast, or pack the breakfast and lunch
boxes and drinking water. Transfer to the boat
jetty. Today is a boat trip on the Ayeyarwaddy
river down to the 11th century buddhist archaeological
site at Bagan. Back to the old times!! The boat
is a double decker tourist and public boat,
seats in halls, roofs, decks, common toilets,
a restaurant. It leaves Mandalay jetty at 6
am, stops at a couple of places. You will see
the local villages, fishing boats, small cargo
boats, firms on the river banks, bull carts
- the life on and along the largest river of
Myanmar. Or read your famous book on the deck.
Arrive Bagan jetty in the evening. Car transfer
to your hotel in Old Bagan. Overnight at hotel
in Old Bagan. |
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Meals: B |
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DAY
05 |
IN
BAGAN |
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Breakfast at hotel.
Today you will have full day sightseeing in
and around of Bagan and Nyaung U together
with Bagan local guide. There are thousands
of ancient monuments. High lights for visit
are
Shwezigon pagoda - the prototype for later
Myanmar pagodas, Ananda temple - a master
piece of King Kyansittha, Thatbyinnyu temple
- the highest builiding in the Bagan plain,
Dhamma Yangyi temple - the most massive temple,
Htilo Minlo temple - the largest temple of
Bagan and Gubyaukgyi temple in Myinkaba village,
etc.
Late afternoon, visit to Bagan famous lacquarware
making cottage industry. In the evening, take
a sunset view of Bagan and its environ from
a high platform of Shwesandaw Pagoda. There
will be ancient temples all around you, the
ayeyarwaddy being behind them, and Tent Kyi
hills are
on the western bank. Beyond that the sun sets.
Overnight at hotel in Old Bagan. |
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Meals: B |
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DAY
06 |
BAGAN
- MOUNT POPA - YAGON |
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Breakfast at hotel.
In the morning, excursion to Mt. Popa at 50
km south-east of Bagan. On the way to Mt Popa,
you will see lives in villages, toddy brewery.
Mt. Popa is an extinct volcano of more than
1500 meters high above sea level. You will however
visit the volanic plug (736 meters high cone
shape small hill built up of lava and rocks)
on the slope of the main Popa. There are many
pagodas, monasteries and sprit houses there.
In the early afternoon back to Bagan. Evening
transfer to Nyaung U airport to fly back to
Yangon. In Yangon, car transfer to your hotel.
Your last night stay in Yangon.
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Meals: B |
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DAY
07 |
YANGO
- BANGKOK |
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Breakfast at hotel.
Free at your leisure. We will send you to airport
for your departure to Bangkok. |
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Meals: B |
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END
OF TOUR |
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| Package
Prices includes
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·
Accommodation
at hotel base
on twin sharing
basis
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Air-conditioned
transportation
· Meals
as indicated on
the itinerary.
·
Sight
seeing as the
itinerary including
admission fee.
·
English
speaking local
guide
· International flights Bangkok – Yangon – Bangkok by Thai Airways
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Domestic flights
Yangon - Mandalay,
and Bagan - Yangon
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| Price per
person (USD) |
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CATEGORY |
Number
of Persons
(Private Tours) |
Single
Sup. |
Remark
&
Expire |
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1pax |
2 pax |
3-6 pax |
7 pax up |
| LUXURY
CLASS |
On request |
1230 $ |
1145 $ |
1070 $ |
330 $ |
Now - 30 Apr 07 |
| FIRST
CLASS |
On request |
1145 $ |
1080 $ |
1000 $ |
293 $ |
Now - 30 Apr 07 |
| SUPERIOR
CLASS |
On request |
1080 $ |
1030 $ |
950 $ |
196 $ |
Now - 30 Apr 07 |
| STANDARD
CLASS |
On request |
1035 $ |
990 $ |
910 $ |
174 $
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Now - 30 Apr 07 |
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| HOTEL'S LIST |
| CITY |
LUXURY |
FIRST |
SUPERIOR |
STANDARD |
| YANGON |
Sedona
Hotel |
Grand Plaza Park Hotel |
Summit
Park View Hotel |
Panorama
Hotel |
| BAGAN |
Thiripyisayar
Sakura Hotel |
Bagan
Hotel |
Thazin
Garden Hotel |
Golden
Express |
| MANDALAY |
Sedona
Hotel |
Mandalay
Swan Hotel |
Mandalay City Hotel |
Nadi
Myanamar |
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