Community and conservation in Myanmar

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Subject to a long period of isolation, Myanmar has remained relatively untouched by the outside world. Consequently, its temple-strewn landscapes and royal palaces survive refreshingly unspoiled. As the country has opened up, our specialists have explored Myanmar’s well-known cities and its little visited villages and countryside. Taking this first-hand knowl...
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Overview

Trip type
Private Guided
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Balanced schedule

Highlights

    • Experience traditional river life on the banks of the Ayeyarwady
    • Get an authentic insight into the diverse tribal communities in Kayah state
    • Learn how to cast a fishing net and help in the conservation of the wonderful Irrawaddy dolphin
    • Cycle through Bagan's many pagodas, exploring them from a unique perspective

What's this trip about?

    Subject to a long period of isolation, Myanmar has remained relatively untouched by the outside world. Consequently, its temple-strewn landscapes and royal palaces survive refreshingly unspoiled. As the country has opened up, our specialists have explored Myanmar’s well-known cities and its little visited villages and countryside. Taking this first-hand knowledge, we can create a tailor-made Myanmar vacation, shaped around your preferences. Natural attractions stretch from the highlands in the north to the pristine Myeik Archipelago in the south, and the sinuous Ayeyarwady River provides a cruising route between Mandalay and the Temples of Bagan and into more remote regions. Almost every skyline is punctuated with a temple stupa: Bagan boasts a collection of over 3,000. City streets are lined with remnants of colonial rule while mountain-top villages maintain tribal traditions. Probably the country’s greatest asset are its people, whose infectious spirit and genuine smiles are hard to beat.

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Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights
Group sizePrivate - your group only
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportAll internal ground transport included
Start CityYangon
End CityMandalay

Travel Themes

  • Cultural
  • Nature & Wildlife
  • Trekking & Expeditions

Destinations

  • Asia

Attractions

  • Bagan
  • Lake Inle
  • Mandalay
  • Yangon

Activities

  • Cooking
  • Culture
  • History
  • Nature
  • Ruins & Archaeology
  • Trekking
  • Wildlife viewing

Trip includes

    • Price includes In-destination transfers
    • Activities and excursions as detailed
    • All accommodations

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Itinerary

Day 1 Yangon

 Yangon

On arrival into Yangon, your private guide and driver will transfer you to your hotel. After a chance to refresh, head out to explore the glistening stupa of the Shwedagon Pagoda and enjoy a drink on 19th Street, with its lively atmosphere.

Day 2 Yangon

 Yangon

Enjoy a walking tour of Yangon today with your private guide. You will visit some of the city's historical points of interest, including the Secretariat; a fascinating building with many stories to tell. The remainder of the evening will be at leisure.

Day 3 Loikaw

 Yangon ,  Loikaw

You will have an early start this morning for the drive back to the airport. Your guide will assist you at the airport, and you will take the short domestic flight to Loikaw. On arrival, you will be met by your local Loikaw guide and will tran...

Day 4 Loikaw

 Loikaw

This morning your guide will meet you at your hotel, and you will drive around thirty minutes to either Demawsoe market or Kandarawaddy Haw Nan monastery, depending on your day of travel. From here, you will transfer around an hour to the beautiful vill...

Day 5 Inle Lake

 Loikaw ,  Inle Lake

Transfer from Loikaw to Inle Lake this morning via boat and car. The total journey time will take around five hours, but during your time on the lake you can take in many of the sights along the way. Arrive at your hotel in time for lunch, and you have the afternoon at leisure.

Day 6 Inle Lake

 Inle Lake

This morning, transfer around twenty-five minutes to a small village, just outside the town of Nyaung Shwe. Here you will be met by your hosts for the morning; you will not be accompanied by a guide today, in order to make the experience as authentic...

Day 7 Kalaw

 Inle Lake ,  Kalaw

Leave Nyaung Shwe and Inle Lake behind this morning as you head to its small station for the mountainside train journey through to the hill station of Kalaw. This typically takes around three hours. Explore the famous hill station with your guide in the afternoon.

Day 8 Kalaw

 Kalaw

Travel a short distance outside Kalaw to visit the excellent Green Hill Valley Elephant camp for the day. The camp is exemplary in its conservation of the elephant, and programmes can be adjusted to also include some light trekking and tree planting.

Day 9 Salay

 Kalaw ,  Heho ,  Bagan ,  Salay

Transfer around an hour from Kalaw to Heho airport this morning, where your guide will assist you in checking-in for your short flight to Nyaung U, the airport in Bagan. From here, you will transfer around ninety minutes, throug...

Day 10 Bagan

 Salay ,  Bagan

From your hotel, you will take a scenic thirty minute boat trip across the Ayeyarwady river this morning, to visit the beautiful Paday Thar Kyan village with your private guide. Take a short walking tour around the surrounding fields before enjo...

Day 11 Bagan

 Bagan

This morning, you will explore Bagan by bicycle with your private guide. As well providing a more eco-friendly form of travel, cycling allows you to get under the skin of Bagan and its some 2000 temples. The roads are quiet and flat, and the cycling is t...

Day 12 Mandalay

 Bagan ,  Mandalay

Today you will take the scenic journey from Bagan to Mandalay with your private guide and driver. The journey will take between four and five hours, with stops available on route at various points of interest along the way. On arrival into Mandalay, you will check-in to your hotel, where you have the afternoon at leisure.

Day 13 Mandalay

 Mandalay

The journey from Mandalay to Hsithe fishing village takes around two and a half hours in total. The drive to the riverside town of Singu takes two hours, and from here you will take a thirty minute boat journey along the Ayeyarwady, to the village. Yo...

Day 14 Mandalay

 MandalayAfter a simple breakfast, your guide will accompany you on a short tour of Hsithe village. This is your chance to see many of the local industries which supplement fishing, such as the making of cheroots and traditional handicrafts. After a last delicious lun...

Day 15 Return home

 Mandalay

Your guide will collect you today and transfer you to the airport in time for your international flight home.

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