Myanmar Nature & CultureMyanmar classic (Myanmar ethnic minorities of Shan State tour)Yangon - Kyingtong - Inle - Taunggyi - Pindaya - Kalaw - YangonDay 1. Yangon (Arrival)Arrive
at Yangon International Airport, pick up by our company
representative.
After check in hotel, take your time free. Upon to your arrival
time at Yangon, you can make half day sightseeing in the town or
take a rest at your hotel to refresh for your great tip in
Myanmar. Dinner and one night stay at a hotel in Yangon will
serve you pleasure. Day 2 Yangon
Day 3. Yangon - Kyaingtongg
Day 4. Kyaingtong
Day 5. Kyaingtone
Day 6. Kyaingtone
Day 7. Kyaingtone - Inle
Day 8. Inle Lake
Day 9. Inle, Indein
Day 10. Inle –Pindaya
Day 11. Pindaya – Kalaw
Day 12. Kalaw – Yangon
Day 13. YangonAfter breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Yangon International Airport for your departure flight.
Day 14.Yangon (Departure)After leisure morning, we will pick you up at your hotel to
Yangon International Airport for your onward departure flight.
It will be the end of your great experience on the wonderful
trip with Travel Expert.
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In
the morning, visit Shwedagon Pagoda, over 2500-year-old gigantic
golden stupa on the highest hill in Yangon. It is the most
popular and holy place of the Buddhist people and land mark of
Myanmar. After that, observe morning fish market and colorful
Thirimingalar Market, the biggest vegetable market in Myanmar.
See many different kinds of fish and vegetable from all over the
country. On the way to downtown, visit historic Botahtaung
pagoda, Yangon river site and Strand Hotel, the earliest 5star
hotel in Myanmar and one of the most famous historic colonial
buildings in Asia. Visit 2000-year old Sule pagoda and some
beautiful colonial buildings in the town. In the afternoon,
proceed to Chaukhtautgyi Buddha image, the biggest reclining
image in Yangon and Ngahtatgyi sitting Buddha image. In the
evening, stroll around the town and visit China-town to see real
life of the people in an ancient city, Yangon. 
In
the morning, we will fly to Kyingtong to explore the authentic
cultural of colorful ethnic groups in Eastern Shan State.
Kyaingtone is an ideal place to see the different highland
people in their colorful traditional costumes. After check in
hotel in Kyingtong, lunch at a restaurant and visit Mahamyatmuni
Buddha Image and Wat Jom Kham Shan monastery in the downtown. In
the evening, we can visit some Akha villages near by town if
time permit. We will have dinner at a restaurant and overnight
stay at a hotel in Kyaingtong.
After
breakfast, we visit morning central market to observe the
colorful tribes who come and sell their home products, green
vegetables, many different fruits and etc. Their foods, snacks
and noodle soup are very delicious and recommended to try it.
After that, we will visit Ho Chin Villages to see colorful Akha
and Lahu tribes on the hills. All of them are animists and live
on the hillside. So, we will leave our car and trek to their
villages to see the ways of life of them and visit some of their
traditional houses. In the evening, we return back to hotel and
overnight stay at a hotel in Kyaingtong.
At
the beginning, proceed to morning water-buffalo market and
explore to Pin Tauk villages of Akha and Enn tribes. We trek
along the small trail in the lush forest hill and enjoy the
beautiful scenery of Shan Mountain ranges. Most of them are
animists and always in their black traditional costumes. We
visit their traditional houses and enjoy our time with highland
people. On the way back, we will make a short visit to Wan Pauk
village to see Palaung tribe in their read costumes with silver
ring on their bodies. Dinner and overnight stay in Kyaingtone
will be in our memories.
In
the morning, we have a pleasant feeling of scenic driving to
discover some ancient Loi villages. After two hour driving, we
will leave our car on the highway and start trekking to Wa Nyat
and Wa San villages. They live separately on their own ethos. In
their villages, all relative people are living in their long
huts together as a unique community. Mostly six or seven
families live together. All of these animist hunters depend on
the forests for their life. You will see authentic cultural of
Loi tribes in these ancient villages. We will make a short
sightseeing at some more villages of the other mountain tribes
on the way back to hotel. In the evening, you should take free
time to be easy for dinner and overnight stay a hotel in
Kyaingtone.
In
the morning, our vacation starts seeing busy colorful central
market again to observe the way of life of the highland tribes
and their handmade colorful wares and local products. Kyaingtone
looks like the central trading town of eastern Shan State
borders with China, Thailand and Lao in the east. In the
afternoon, take a flight to Heho airport and drive to Inke Lake. 
Morning
take a boat trip to discover lifestyle of the Inthar people who
live in the highest lake of the country, Inle lake, which is the
second largest lake and lies among the hazy blue mountain of the
Shan mountain range. Leg rolling fisher men, floating tomato
gardens, weaving and silver smith villages are unique attraction
of the lake. We will visit Phaungdaw Oo pagoda for its 11th
century style five golden Buddha images and an old Shan lacquer
ware Buddha images museum at Jumping Cat Monastery in the day
time. On the way back to hotel, we enjoy the beautiful sunset on
boat. The scenery of the beautiful sunset on the shoulder of
hazy blue mountain range behind the lake will feel you as in
paradise. 
In
the morning, we visit colorful morning five-day market to see
colorful Shan tribes by having a scenic boat driving through
floating vegetable islands and ethnic villages. Boat excursion
among the villages will take you back to the time of one century
ago. On the way to Indein, we enjoy upstream driving through
small locks of the narrow stream surrounded by greed bamboo
forest and paddy fields. In Indein, we walk in the ruined
pagodas complex to explore the striking old Buddha images in and
out of the ruined temples. It looks like a hiding small ancient
Bagan for over one thousand small ruined stupas of 11th century.
It will be free and easy time in the peaceful evening.
After
breakfast at hotel, we enjoy the scenic driving to Pindaya Cave,
a famous line stone cave with over 3000 Buddha images made of
different metals in different purposes. It is saturated on a
rocky cliff of forest mountain as a magic place. It was hidden
behind the bushes on the side of a forest mountain for a long
time and found in 1981. Visiting in the cave is like entering
marvelous ancient Buddha Image museum of Shan tribes. Bamboo
umbrella and paper factories are the idea places for tourists in
Pindaya. In the evening, stroll around the Pindaya Lake and
village. Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in Pindaya.
We
will visit morning colorful morning market and drive to Kalaw.
On the way, we will take our times to enjoy our photography and
see colorful vegetable plantations on the mountain range. Arrive
at Kalaw and we visit popular lacquer ware Buddha image at a
monastery and made a short trekking trip to a hill village. In
the evening, take a rest at the famous British hill station,
Kalaw, by strolling among the ancient colonial monuments. We
will heave dinner and overnight stay at a hotel in Kalaw.
After
leisure morning at Kalaw, proceed to airport for your flight to
Yangon. Arrive at Yangon and check in hotel. In your private
time, take a rest for your refreshment or visit some rest sights
in Yangon.
