Spiritual Myanmar Tour 4 Days 3 Nights

Welcome to Yangon City. Myanmar's Capital is a city filled wide tree-lined avenues, tranquil lakes, and shimmering stupas that seem to float above the treetops.

You are welcome by our tour guide at the arrival and en route to your hotel. Check in and free at leisure

In the afternoon, ready for tour in Myanmar's Capital Touring. Showing respect for Myanmar’s religions and traditions is of utmost importance. Both men and women should dress conservatively; cover your shoulders and wear knee-long skirts or trousers. When entering a pagoda or temple, always take off your shoes.

Start touring by visiting The Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda, where is placed one of the biggest colossal reclining Buddha Image. Then, going to Sule Pagoda, with its iconic golden chedi (domed edifice), which stands squarely at the center point of the city

This evening enjoy a special visit to the massive Shwedagon Pagoda – Its golden stupa is the ‘ Heart ’ of Buddhism in Myanmar, attracting pilgrims worldwide. The Pagoda is believed to be 2,500 years old and the central stupa in surrounded by dozens of intricately decorated buildings and statues. The pagoda is encrusted with nearly 8,000 diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and topaz, and set with a 76-carat diamond at the tip.

Have a welcome dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Yangoon
Overnight in Yangon

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner; all entrance fees

Breakfast at your hotel, then transfer to the airport for flight from Yangon to Bagan, a riverside plain dotted with thousands of 800-year old temples and pagodas, and one of the richest archaeological sites in Asia.

Upon the arrival at Bagan Airport, tour guide will welcome you at the entrance gate.

Pick up and transfer to the hotel for relaxing and arrange your own lunch

After lunch time, we start touring in the afternoon, to visit: Shwezigon Pagoda. Built by King Anawrahta in the early 11th century, this is Myanmar’s most significant religious structure, serving as a prototype for many stupas (temples) that followed.

Continues to visit the Ananda Temple, a white-washed masterpiece of Mon architecture. This was the first of Bagan’s great temples, and perhaps most photographed. View the four huge standing Buddha images, well-preserved murals, and numerous seated figures in niches around the galleried interior.

Next stop is Thatbyinnyu Temple. The tallest temple, it measures over 200 feet tall, and dates from 1144.Then, to Htilominlo Temple, the largest temple of Bagan, noted for its fine plaster carvings and glazed sandstone decorations. Admire the fine brickwork at the Dhamannyangyi Temple, then relax as you watch sunset along Ayeyarwaddy River.

This evening, be entertained during dinner with a pleasing puppet show at Nanda    
Overnight in Bagan.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & dinner; all entrance fees

Have breakfast at your hotel.

This morning, explore the colorful Nyaung Oo Local Market, then keep touring to Manuha Temple, built by the imprisoned Mon king Manuha. Inside are four Buddha, each too large for their space – meant to represent Manuha’s displeasure at his being held captive. Continue to the 11th century Nanphaya Temple. It is sandstone over a brick core, with perforated stone windows typical of earlier Bagan architecture. The Nanpaya Temple is Bagan's first gu-style (cave) shrine. See the sophisticated 12th century Sulamuni Temple and the Hindi NatHlaung Kyaung Temple before having lunch at a local restaurant.

Our next place is Manuha Myingaba Village, and meet the women weavers at a local village, making clothes on traditional looms as they have for generations.

Late afternoon, you are transferred to the airport for your flight back to Yangon. On arrival at Yangon, you have time to relax at to your hotel before enjoying the farewell dinner at a local restaurant       

Overnight in Yangon

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner; all entrance fees