Treasure Of Yangon

Welcome to Myanmar! Upon arrival at the airport and after you clear customs, you will be greeted by your local guide transferred to your hotel to check in at your hotel for relaxing and refreshing up after long journey to Myanmar . Along the way you will quickly realize that Yangon is like no other city of its size in all of Southeast Asia. Yangon is the commercial capital of Myanmar and has a population of over five million.

After check in hotel , you are to be free and relaxed for the rest of the day and overnight stay in Yangon

Today after breakfast, meet up with your local English Speaking Guide in Hotel Lobby at 07:30 for group orientation and briefing about excursion around Myanmar. At 08:00 , We are to start exploring the most highlights of Yangon.

Firstly we are to visit Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the world’s most spectacular religious monuments, and the golden dome Pagoda is the place to see the local ways of life and belief then If the time permits, you can drop in at the Kalaywa Tawya Monastery where more than 1000 monks and nuns studying Buddhist scriptures and also operate a modern academic studies. After that proceed to Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda ( the huge reclining Buddha Statue in length of 72 meters long ) and then taking a lunch break at Authentic Local Restaurant to introduce typical local foods to you . after lunch , drive back to hotel to take a short break till afternoon sightseeing begin.

After noon sightseeing begin around 15:30 or 15:45 depending on location of your hotel to down town  area. This afternoon , We are hanging around the heart of Yangon City to see unique colonial buildings built in late 19^th Century and early 20^th Century . Firstly you will be brought to our starting point which is located beside Historic Sule Pagoda and in front of City Hall.  We start walking from starting point to see colonial buildings . meet up with your driver at end point which is Nanthida Jetty ( Yangon River Side ). Then continue our sightseeing to Botahtaung Pagoda and enjoy the sunset from river side near by Botahtaung Pagoda. Then drive back to hotel and overnight stay in Yangon

After breakfast at your hotel, start the road trip to the “Golden Rock”. After 1½ hour, you will get  to Bago and upon arrival to Bago, you are to visit the studies of Buddha’s teachings with the monks of Kyakhatwaing monastery where over 1000 Buddhist monks reside. Then, take another 2 hours drive  to get to Mountain view restaurant for lunch break nearby Kin Pun  base Camp; the first  There, you will have to get on the open truck to be transferred to “Up Hill Truck Camp near Golden Rock”   This miracle Pagoda is situated in Mon State, regarded as one of the most sacred pagodas along with Shwedagon from Yangon and Maha Muni from Mandalay. It is also believed the hair relic of the Buddha was enshrined in the huge rock which is hanging and balancing on the edge of the cliff..  Enjoy and overlook the magnificence view of the surrounding area and overnight stay at hotel in Golden Rock.

After breakfast at hotel, observe the morning activities of the local pilgrims and walking back to the “Up Hill Truck Camp” and transferred by the open trunk to the base camp again to driving back to Yangon. On the way back, in Bago, have lunch and then major sightseeing in Bago include a visit to the famous “Shwemawdaw Pagoda” which is 144 meters high, Shwethalyaung Reclining Buddha (55 metres long),28 meter high huge Buddha Image of Kyaikpun Pagoda with its four huge Buddha Images facing the cardinal points and the one interest place is Kanbawzathardi Palace. Afte that drive straight back to Yangon and overnight stay in Yangon