After the breakfast at hotel, transfer to Yangon Airport for the domestic flight to Bagan (approx. 0700/0820 – direct). Upon arrival, drive to Nyaung Oo and stroll through the colorful local market where you can see the trading of local people. Then sightseeing includes: Shwezigon Pagoda – the prototype for later Myanmar pagodas built by King Anawrahta, Ananda Temple – King Kyansittha’s masterpiece and the crowning achievement of the early style temple of architecture. Htilominlo Temple – the largest temples. After lunch by own account, check in to the hotel.
In the afternoon, the horse cart will take you through some of the more off the beaten track temple sites. Explore some more temples and experience the traditional way of travelling and transportation still commonly used by the rural people of Myanmar. Visit to Lacquer-ware making home cottage, Manuha Temple, Myinkaba Gubyaukgyi Temple – known for its wall paintings depicting scenes from the Jataka and Dhamanyangyi Temple. In the evening, you can enjoy the magnificent sun-set view of Bagan from one of the sunset hill of Bagan. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Bagan.

Optional morning program (operate from October to 1st Week of April):
Early this morning, enjoy a balloon flight over the Bagan temples. Around 0530 hours the Balloon over Bagan shuttle bus will pick you up at your hotel. You will drive to the departure ground of the Balloons. While the team makes the Balloon ready to go, you enjoy some refreshments, but you can also take great pictures of this event. Then, depending on the wind, you will over fly Bagan for about one hour, and enjoy spectacular views of the ancient Kingdom of Bagan in your hot air balloon! The tour ends…..where ever the wind has brought you. A glass of sparkling wine ends this fantastic event….and the shuttle bus then brings you back to your hotel.

After breakfast, drive approx 50 km (1½ hours) will take you to Mount Popa, and extinct volcano with spectacular views. Its shrine is dedicated to animist spirit know as “Nats” and you will have time to climb the 777 steps to the shrine at the top of the peak. Lunch can be taken at beautiful Popa Mountain Resort (by own account).
Drive back to Bagan in the afternoon and on the way visit the palm tree workshop and learn jiggery sweet production.
In the late afternoon, enjoy the sunset boat tour on the mighty Ayeyarwaddy River and enjoy the sunset. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Bagan.

After the breakfast, transfer to Bagan Airport for the domestic flight to Mandalay (approx. 0735/0810 – direct). Upon arrival at Mandalay Airport, drive to Amarapura, the penultimate Royal Capital and lying 11 km south of Mandalay. Here we visit Mahagandayon, a famous Buddhist monastery, where more than a thousand monks live and study and the 150-year-old U Bein teak bridge, built in 1851 at the time when Amarapura was the royal capital by staking 1060 teak posts over the wide Taungthaman Lake to connect two villages. One of the most photographed spots in Myanmar and well worth spending time walking across the bridge.
After Lunch (by own account), a comprehensive sightseeing tour of Mandalay includes Mahamuni Pagoda with its spectacular Buddha image covered with thick layers of gold leaves, a visit to a craftsman’s workshop to see Kalaga tapestries being created, Shwe Nan Daw Kyaung (Golden Monastery), a superb example of a traditional wooden building and Kuthodaw Pagoda (known as the world’s largest book), consisting of 729 marble slabs engraved with Buddhist scriptures. Proceed to Mandalay Hill to enjoy the scenic view of the city and its environs at sunset time. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Mandalay.

After the breakfast, transfer to Airport for the domestic flight to Heho (approx. 1020/1055 – direct). Upon arrival in Heho, proceed by road to Pindaya (65 km - 1½ hours). Lunch at local Restaurant by own account. After lunch, visit magnificent Pindaya Caves, set in a limestone ridge overlooking a picturesque lake, where thousands of different types of Buddha images are on display in the various cave chambers. Visit some local houses where families produce Shan paper and parasols. A scenic drive takes you to Inle Lake (90 km - 2½ hours). Transfer by boat to the hotel on the lake. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Nyaung Shwe.

Breakfast at hotel. This morning, excursion by boat in Inle Lake where you will have a chance to see the unique leg-rowers and scenic beauty, fishing canoes using special methods for fishing and collecting seaweed, lake bed mud etc to make floating gardens. Then, visit Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the holiest religious site in southern Shan State and the boat construction workshop at Nampan village as well stopping to see some traditional handicrafts - silk weaving on wooden handlooms in Inpawkon village, a cheroot workshop and a blacksmith shop.
In the afternoon, another boat trip to the western shore of Inle Lake, where you will find the beginning of a stair path leading to the well hidden Inndein Pagoda complex. After disembarking it is a 15 minute walk through Indaing village to reach the 14-18th century pagoda ruins of Nyaung Ohak; many pagodas here remain charmingly un-renovated with plants and even small trees growing out of them making it very atmospheric. A covered walkway, popular with souvenir stalls leads up a complex of weather beaten zedi; some sadly reconstructed although the views from the top make it worth the ascent. Returning to the river jetty we take our long-tailed boat back along the canal to the Lake. Returning back to the hotel the beauty of sunset over Inle Lake enchants all visitors. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Nyaung Shwe

After breakfast, leave your hotel and transfer to Heho Airport for domestic flight to Yangon (approx. 1010/1225 – via Bagan). Upon arrival, transfer to hotel. Arrive Yangon Airport and then visit Kaba Aye (World Peace) Pagoda and Mahapasana Guha Cave, where the Sixth Buddhist Council took place. Visit to Gems museum (or) National Museum can be made (closed on Mondays and Public Holidays). Transfer to your hotel for check in. Car and Guide at disposal for further sightseeing or shopping until 18:00 P.M. Both lunch and dinner are your own account. Accommodation at Hotel in Yangon.

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Yangon International Airport for your departure flight ------ .