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Myanmar | Content | 1 Putao ICS TRAVEL GROUP is one of the first international DMCs to open own offices in our destinations and has since become a market leader throughout the Mekong region, Indonesia and India. As such, we can offer you the following advantages: Global Network. Rapid Response. With a centralised reservations centre/head All quotation and booking requests are answered office in Bangkok and 7 sales offices. promptly and accurately, with no exceptions. Local Knowledge and Network. Innovative Online Booking Engine. We have operations offices on the ground at every Our booking and feedback systems are unrivalled major destination – making us your incountry expert in the industry. for your every need. Creative MICE team. Quality Experience. Our team of experienced travel professionals in Our goal is to provide a seamless travel experience each country is accustomed to handling multi- for your clients. national incentives. Competitive Hotel Rates. International Standards / Financial Stability We have contract rates with over 1000 hotels and All our operational offices are fully licensed pride ourselves on having the most attractive pricing and financially stable. All guides and drivers are strategies in the region. thoroughly trained and licensed. Full Range of Services and Products. Wherever your clients want to go and whatever they want to do, we can do it. Our portfolio includes the complete range of prod- ucts for leisure and niche travellers alike. ICS TRAVEL ICSGROUPTRAVEL GROUP Contents Introduction 3 Tours 4 Cruises 20 Hotels 24 Yangon 24 Mandalay 30 Bagan 34 Mount Popa 37 Inle Lake 38 Nyaung Shwe 41 Ngapali 42 Pyay 45 Mrauk U 45 Ngwe Saung 46 Excursions 48 Hotel Symbol: ICS Preferred Hotel Style Hotel Boutique Hotel Myanmar | Content | 1 Putao Lahe INDIA INDIA Myitkyina CHINA CHINA Bhamo Muse MYANMAR Mogok Lashio Hsipaw BANGLADESHBANGLADESH Mandalay Monywa ICS TRA VEL GR OUP Meng La Nyaung Oo Kengtung Mt. Victoria Bagan ICS TRA VEL GR OUP Heho Taunggyi LAOS Meiktila Nyaung Shwe Mrauk U Tachilek LAOS Inle Lake Sittwe ICS TRA VEL GR OUP BAY OF BENGAL Chaing Rai NAYPYITAW Pyinmana Taungoo Pyay Thandwe Ngapali THAILAND Bago Kyaikto THAILAND Yangon Chaungtha Thaton Ngwe Saung ICS TRA VEL GR OUP Mae Sot Mawlamyine Kanchanaburi ANDAMAN SEA Dawei Ratchaburi Petchaburi Myeik Mergui Archipelago Prachuap Kirikhan Chumphon Kawthaung MYANMAR | Myanmar is Asia at its best. More than any other Asian country, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has preserved its cultures and traditions. Myanmar is a deeply religious Buddhist country and is well known by travellers for its abundance of sights and sounds, interesting cultures, diversity of nature and most of all for its charming and friendly people. A kind of magic shrouds the whole land with its tropical plains, the Himalayan highlands, teak-filled jungle and the Irrawaddy River. ICSTRAVEL GROUP Myanmar | Private Tours Myanmar Classic 2, 9 days | Myanmar Classic 2 Day 1 Yangon | Arrive in Yangon and transfer to hotel for check in. Yangon lies in the fertile delta of southern Myanmar, Afterwards visit SHWESANDAW PAYA, the first Day 5 Mandalay | on the wide Yangon River. The city is filled with monument in Bagan, which features stairways Continue to discover the fascinating city and begin the tree-shaded boulevards, while shimmering stupas leading up from the square bottom terraces to the tour at MAHAMUNI PAYA. The Mahamuni image enshrined float above the treetops. The city became the capital round base of the Stupa. This Pagoda is ideal to watch here is perhaps the most venerated image in Myanmar, only in 1885, when the British completed the conquest Bagan’s magnificent sunsets. Last but least take the covered in over 15 cm of gold leaf. Worshippers flock of Upper Myanmar and Mandalay’s brief period as opportunity to learn about the painstaking process daily to the shrine at four in the morning to observe capital of the last Burmese kingdom ended. Start to of lacquerware making and decoration in one of the the unique face-washing ceremony. Afterwards, head discover this exciting city by visiting the SULE PAGODA. LACQUERWARE WORKSHOP in the villages around to SHWENANDAW KYAUNG, also called the Golden Teak The pagoda’s peculiarity is its octagonal-shaped stupa, Bagan. Overnight in Bagan. Monastery. Continue to KYAUKAWGYI PAYA, famous for its which retains its shape as it tapers to the spire. monumental seated Buddha, carved from a single block Proceed to the KANDAWGYI LAKE, also known as the Royal Day 3 Bagan | of marble, and the elegant SANDAMANI PAYA. Lake, which is a good place for strolling and picnicking. Today’s excursion leads to MOUNT POPA, a curiously Finally, visit KUTHODAW PAYA, known also as the The lake is attractive at sunset when the glittering cylindrical hill rising sharply from the surrounding world’s biggest book. Around the central stupa are Shwedagon pagoda is reflected in its calm waters. plain and is considered to be the home of the coun- miniature pavilions, housing altogether 729 slabs Continue to BOGYOKE AUNG SAN MARKET, also known try’s most important nats (spirits). Visitors ascend up of marble inscribed with the entire Tripitkata, the as Scott Market, this building contains over 2000 stalls a winding covered staircase encircling the mountain, Buddhist scriptures. In the afternoon take an excursion and is the best place in Yangon to browse through the observed by the curious monkeys that populate the by boat to MINGUN. Enjoy the atmosphere of the river complete range of local handicrafts. Finally visit the area. At the top is a monastery and temple complex, life - fishing villages, market boats, women attending SHWEDAGON PAGODA, the highlight of any visit to with shrines to the 37 nats and a spectacular view to their washing, and children playing in the water. Yangon, this pagoda dates back about 2500 years and over the region. Overnight in Bagan. Explore the ruins of the vast MINGUN PAYA, a monu- was built to house eight sacred hairs of the Buddha. ment to human ambition. After visiting other nearby Its bell-shaped superstructure, resting on a terraced Day 4 Mandalay | pagodas, return downstream by boat to Mandalay. base, is covered in about 60 tons of gold-leaf, which Take a flight from Bagan to Mandalay, a city considered Overnight in Mandalay. is continuously being replaced. The Shwedagon and to be the cultural and religious capital of Myanmar, with surrounding shrines are at their most beautiful during a long history stretching back to religious time being Day 6 Mandalay - Kalaw | the sunset hour, as the golden stupa reflects the also the last capital of royal Burma. This day tour visits Transfer by vehicle from Mandalay to Kalaw, a popular changing colors of twilight. Overnight in Yangon. three former royal capitals, each with its own unique hill station in the British days. Kalaw sits high on the atmosphere. In the morning, drive to AMARAPURA, and western edge of the Shan Plateau. The small popula- Day 2 Yangon - Bagan | visit MAHAGANDAYON MONASTERY. Every day at mid- tion is a mix of Shan, Indian Muslim, Bamar and Nepali. Take a flight from Yangon to Bagan. Bagan is a morning, monks and novices line up to receive their Overnight in Kalaw. spectacular plain stretching away from the Irrawaddy daily offering of alms and food from faithful Buddhists. River, dotted with thousands of 800-year old Next, head to SAGAING, the spiritual centre of Myanmar. Day 7 Kalaw - Inle Lake | temple ruins. Although human habitation at Bagan Hundreds of stupas, monasteries, temples and nunneries Discover the peaceful and idyllic town by visiting dates back almost to the beginning of the Christian are to be found in Sagaing Hill, also known as a living THEIN TAUNG PAYA, a temple perched on the hill era, Bagan only entered its golden period with the Bagan. Thousands of monks and nuns retreat here for overlooking the Thazi-Taunggyi Road. Proceed to conquest of Thaton in 1057 AD. Begin the sightseeing meditation and contemplation. Stop at some of the most AUNG CHANG THA ZEDI, a glittering stupa covered tour by visiting SHWEZIGON PAYA, a pagoda partly build famous temples, such as TUPAYON PAYA and HSINMYASHIN in gold-coloured mosaics. Thereafter admire the by King Anawrahta to enshrine some relicts of Buddha. PAYA, the Pagoda of many Elephants. Cross the river by DHAMMA YON two-storey temple and its fair views The stupa’s graceful bell shape became a prototype ferry to INWA, situated on the banks of the Irrawaddy of the town, Dhamma Yanthi Paya and the ruins of for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. Proceed to River. the Hsu Taung Pye Paya. Continue to HSU TAUNG GUBYAUKHYI TEMPLE at Wetkyi-Inn. This Temple with PYE PAYA and NEE PAYA with its gold lacquered its distinguished architecture was built in the early Once a royal capital, Inwa is now a quiet rural oasis. bamboo Buddha. Finally proceed to the CHRIST 13th century and has great colourful painting about the Enjoy a leisurely horse-cart ride around the peaceful THE KING CHURCH: a brick Catholic Church under previous life of Buddha. Continue to ANANDA PAHTO, one countryside, briefly visiting BAGAYA KYAUNG, a beauti- the supervision of the Burmese Father Paul, and of the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered ful teak wood monastery, MAHA AUNGME BOZAN KYANG, the Italian Father Angelo Di Meo, who have been of the Bagan temples. Continue to GUBYAUKGYI TEMPLE at and NAN MYINT TOWER. On the way, stop and observe in Myanmar since 1931. Discover the surrounding Myinkaba. This temple is famous for its well-preserved how local artisans make the famous alms bowls out of plateau by trekking to the villages inhabited by Stuccos from the 12th century on the outside walls iron.
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