Private 10-Day Tour of Myanmar: Yangon - Inle Lake - Bagan

Private 10-Day Tour of Myanmar: Yangon - Inle Lake - Bagan - Mandalay by flights

By E-Travel Myanmar Co. Ltd

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Overview

Explore most popular attractions (Yangon, Inle Lake, Bagan, Mandalay) in Myanmar. This private tour that covers all the best of Myanmar
Route: Yangon - Inle Lake - Bagan - Mandalay (destinations order can be changed basing on request)
Start City: Yangon
End City: Mandalay
Duration : 10 days 9 nights
Private Tour : Departure daily upon your request
Transportation : 2 internal Flights, Private Car, Private Boat, Station English Speaking guides

Activity location

Yangon (Rangoon)
- Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar, Myanmar

Meeting/Redemption Point

Yangon (Rangoon)
- Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar, Myanmar

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Option 1: 3* Hotels

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Tour Price for 3* hotel Option
Pickup included

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time: 12:30

Price details

RM 5,899.52 x 2 AdultsRM 11,799.04

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Option 2 - 4* hotels

10d
English

Tour Price for 4* Hotels
Pickup included

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time: 12:30

Price details

RM 6,854.91 x 2 AdultsRM 13,709.82

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What's included, what's not

Bagan to Mandalay by Private Car
All taxes, fees and handling charges
9 nights accommodation at 3* or 4* hotels with Breakfasts
Private airport dropoffs without guide
2 domestic flights (Yangoon - Heho / Heho - Bagan)
Professional in-tour station English speaking guides
Private boat transfer in/out in Inle Lake
Entrance fees for all visiting sites in itinerary
Private Airport pickups with guide
Visa arrangements for Myanmar
Drinks and personal expenses
Tips and porters at the hotels
International flight tickets Pre/post tour
Food and drinks (available for purchase)

Know before you book

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
Child/Infant rates apply provided they share the bed with parent
We would select similar hotels of the same rate in case suggested ones are full.
Children must be accompanied by an adult

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Yangoon Arrival

1 stop
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Summit Parkview Hotel / 4* hotel: Rose Garden Hotel

Yangon (Rangoon)

You will welcome by local guide and will take you to the hotel. Free time till checkin. Note*: early checkin (if any) is not included.

Day 2: Yangon - Full day Sightseeing

7 stops
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Summit Parkview Hotel / 4* hotel: Rose Garden Hotel

Yangon (Rangoon)

Today, enjoy your full day city tour to see best of Yangon.

Sule Pagoda

40m
Admission ticket included

The Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa located in the heart of downtown Yangon, occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. According to legend, it was built before the Shwedagon Pagoda during the time of the Buddha, making it more than 2,600 years old. Burmese legend states that the site for the Shwedagon Pagoda was asked to be revealed from an old nat who resided at the place where the Sule Pagoda now stands.

Yangon City Hall

40m
Admission ticket included

Yangon City Hall is considered a fine example of syncretic Burmese architecture, featuring traditional tiered roofs called pyatthat, and was designed by Burmese architect U Tin, who also designed Central Railway Station. Construction began in 1926 and ended in 1936. The city hall occupies the former site of the Ripon Hall. We will also visit the Victory Monument

Kandawgyi Lake

Also known as Royal Lake, this artificial lake built by the British as a reservoir is most attractive at sunset, when the glittering Shwedagon Paya is reflected in its calm waters. On the southern side of the lake, floats a Shin Upagot shrine. Upagot is a Bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) who is said to protect human beings in moments of mortal danger.

Chaukhtatgyi Buddha

40m
Admission ticket included

Chaukhtatgyi is the most well-known Buddhist temple in Yangon. It houses one of the most revered reclining Buddha images in the country. The Buddha image is 66 metres (217 ft) long, and one of the largest in Burma.

Shwedagon Pagoda

50m
Admission ticket included

The Shwedagon is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa. These relics include the staff of Kakusandha, the water filter of Koṇāgamana, a piece of the robe of Kassapa, and eight strands of hair from the head of Gautama.

Bogyoke Aung San Market

Note*: we will drop you at the hotel or at the market. Enjoy your free time to explore the market and take the taxi back to your hotel. Bogyoke Aung San Market (formerly Scott's Market) is a major bazaar located in Pabedan township in central Yangon, Myanmar. Known for its colonial architecture and inner cobblestone streets, the market is a major tourist destination, dominated by antique, Burmese handicraft and jewellery shops, art galleries, and clothing stores. Bogyoke Market is a popular black market location to exchange currency. The market also has a number of stores for local shoppers, selling medicine, foodstuffs, garments and foreign goods.

Day 3: Yangoon – Inle Lake by flight

1 stop
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Amata Garden Resort / 4* Hotel: Novotel Inle Lake Hotel

Inle Lake

Free and easy time to relax and explore Yangon till afternoon flight to Heho. Transfer to the hotel in Inle Lake upon arrival.

Day 4: Inle Lake - Sightseeing

4 stops
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Amata Garden Resort / 4* Hotel: Novotel Inle Lake Hotel

Inle Lake

50m
Admission ticket included

Today, enjoy your full day to visit interesting sites in Inle Lake. Explore the local crafts of Inle Lake with a stop at the weaving village of Inpawkhone and a cheroot factory, where the typical Burmese cigars are made by hand. If time permits, there may be time to enjoy a short walk through one of the lakeside villages.

Floating Gardens

50m
Admission ticket included

Inle lake is about 14 miles long and 7 miles wide at its most expansive. Roughly 25% of the surface is covered by carefully tended floating gardens. The Floating Gardens on Inle Lake were made by native people, In-Thars. They grow vegetables on floating islands which are collection of floating weed and water hyacinth. These floating islands can be cut, dragged by boats and ever be sold like a piece of land. Floating gardens can be found mostly in Kaylar, Inthan and Zayatgyi villages. Upon reaching the edges of Inle Lake, board a private motorboat to head out to Inle Lake, one of Myanmar’s most spectacular sights. Pass villages built on stilts over the lake, inhabited by the local Intha people. Observe the leg-rowing fishermen and see their floating gardens built up from strips of water hyacinth and mud and anchored to the bottom with bamboo poles.

Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery

40m
Admission ticket included

Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery is considered the oldest and largest one among the Inle lake community. This wooden temple was built on stilts at least 200 years ago. Set among the floating gardens, the fascinating monastery is surely worth a visit, especially if tourists are planning on visiting Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda or just getting back from there.

Hpaung Daw U Pagoda

40m
Admission ticket included

The Phaung Daw Oo pagoda is the most highly revered monastery in the Inle Lake area. It houses five ancient images of the Buddha that are completely covered in golf leaf. At the center of the monastery building is a golden stupa topped with an ornamental hti. The interior walls of the temple are decorated with murals depicting Buddhist stories.

Day 5: Inle Lake – Bagan by plane

1 stop
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Bagan Thande Hotel / 4* hotel: Ananta Bagan Hotel

Bagan

Enjoy your free time to explore Inle Lake. In the afternoon, transfer to the airport for the flight to Bagan. TRansfer to the hotel upon arrival. Free.

Day 6: Bagan Full day Sightseeing

6 stops
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Bagan Thande Hotel / 4* hotel: Ananta Bagan Hotel

Bagan Temples

Bagan is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, 4,446 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of 3,822 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. Today, we will visit all the most famous temples of Bagan before enjoying a panoramic view of the sun setting over the plain of Bagan from one of the pagoda platforms.

Shwezigon Paya

40m
Admission ticket included

King Anawrahta started the construction of the Schwezigon Pagoda to enshrine some relicts of Buddha. The construction was finished by his successor, King Kyansittha between 1086 and1090. The stupa's graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar.

Ananda Temple

50m
Admission ticket included

One of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. Thought to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha, this perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period.

Gubyaukgyi Temple

50m
Admission ticket included

Built in 1113 by Kyanzittha son Rajakumar, this temple is famous for its well-preserved Stuccos from the 12th century on the outside walls. The magnificent paintings date from the original construction of the temple and are considered to be the oldest original paintings in Bagan.

Manuha Temple

50m
Admission ticket included

The Manuha Temple was built in 1059 by King Manuha, the King of Thaton, who was brought captive to Bagan by King Anawrahta. It enshrines the unusual combination of 3 seated and one reclining image Buddha. It is said that this temple was built by Manuha to express his displeasure about his captivity in Bagan.

Shwesandaw Pagoda

50m
Admission ticket included

In 1057 King Anawrahta built this Pagoda following his conquest of Thaton. This is the first monument in Bagan, which features stairways leading up from the square bottom terraces to the round base of the Stupa.

Day 7: Free and easy to explore Bagan

2 stops
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Bagan Thande Hotel / 4* hotel: Ananta Bagan Hotel

Bagan

Free and easy to explore Bagan

Mount Popa

6h
Admission ticket not included

Optional Tour: to visit Popa Mt. Cost for this private tour can be charged upon arriving Myanmar.

Day 8: Bagan – Mandalay

1 stop
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Hotel Magic Mandalay / 4* Hotel: Ibis Styles Mandalay Hotel

Mandalay

Free time to explore Bagan till pickup for private transfer to Mandalay (no guide).The journey would take 4 hours drive. Enjoy scenic view of villages along the way.

Day 9: Mandalay – full day Sightseeing

5 stops
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: 3* Hotel: Hotel Magic Mandalay / 4* Hotel: Ibis Styles Mandalay Hotel

Mandalay

The last capital of royal Burma, Mandalay is still one of the largest cities in Myanmar, and a cultural and spiritual center. Neighboring Sagaing is home to over sixty percent of the country's monks, while the artisans of Mandalay continue to turn out the finest crafts in Myanmar. For a day, we will visit major interesting sites

Shwenandaw Monastery

40m
Admission ticket included

Shwenandaw Monastery was built in 1878 by King Thibaw Min, who dismantled and relocated the apartment formerly occupied by his father, King Mindon Min, just before Mindon Min's death. The monastery is known for its teak carvings of Buddhist myths, which adorn its walls and roofs. The monastery is built in the traditional Burmese architectural style. Shwenandaw Monastery is the single remaining major original structure of the original Royal Palace today.

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda

50m
Admission ticket included

Kyauktawgyi Pagoda is a well-known Buddhist temple located near the southern entry to Mandalay Hill, Myanmar, opposite the northeastern corner of the Mandalay moat. The image of the Buddha is officially known as Maha Thetkya Mayazein. The Kyauktawgyi Buddha is a huge sculpted image of the Buddha seated in the Bhūmipassa Mudrā. The figure was sculpted from a single block of pale green marble quarried at Sagyin, 12 miles (19 km) north of Mandalay. The stone block was transported over the course of 13 days, requiring the manpower of 10,000 to 12,000 men, to the temple site, where it was carved. The image was consecrated in 1865.

Kuthodaw Pagoda & the World's Largest Book

50m
Admission ticket included

literally Royal Merit, and formally titled Mahalawka Marazein is a Buddhist stupa, located in Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar), that contains the world's largest book. It lies at the foot of Mandalay Hill and was built during the reign of King Mindon. The stupa itself, which is gilded above its terraces, is 188 feet (57 m) high, and is modelled after the Shwezigon Pagoda at Nyaung-U near Bagan. In the grounds of the pagoda are 729 kyauksa gu or stone-inscription caves, each containing a marble slab inscribed on both sides with a page of text from the Tripitaka, the entire Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.

Mandalay Hill

1h
Admission ticket included

Mandalay Hill is a 240 metres (790 ft) hill that is located to the northeast of the city centre of Mandalay in Myanmar. Take an easy climb up sheltered steps to experience panoramic views over the palace, Mandalay and the paya-studded countryside. The famous hermit monk, U Khanti, is credited with inspiring the construction of many of the buildings on and around the hill in the years after the founding of the city.

Day 10: Mandalay – departure

1 stop
Meals: breakfast
Accommodation: Not included

Mandalay

Pickup at the hotel for your departure flight. Trip ends. Note*: Mandalay is an iternational airport. From here, you can take the flight to other nearby countries for next travel destination or the flight back to Yangon. Surcharge for the Mandalay - Yangon flight is not included.

Location

Activity location

Yangon (Rangoon)
- Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar, Myanmar

Meeting/Redemption Point

Yangon (Rangoon)
- Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar, Myanmar

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