Myanmar & Thailand Highlights Tour

Itinerary

• Day 1: Bangkok, Arrival

  Welcome to Thailand! On arrival in Bangkok, you will meet your guide and be escorted to the hotel. After check-in, the rest of the day is at leisure.

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• Day 2: Bangkok Sightseeing

  You will spend two days to explore the highlights of Bangkok. Start from the colorful flower and vegetable market and then head to the dazzling Grand Palace. You could appreciate the beauty of its buildings, and the sacred Wat Phra Kaew inside the palace.

  After lunch, ride a long-tail boat cruising along the canal. It will offer you a chance to see traditional Thai houses and true Thai life. The final stop is fantastic Wat Arun, a temple whose design is very different from the others in Bangkok.

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• Day 3: Bangkok

  After breakfast, you will drive outside of Bangkok to visit The Train Market. There are enormous shrimp, bright red lobsters, tons of squid and big, big fish actually caught in Burmese waters. Then you will enter the famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. Sit down and take your pictures, try some mango and sticky rice or hot soup with fish balls. And then you will get back to Bangkok for a tour to Jim Thompson House before you are escorted back to your hotel for some leisure time on your own.

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• Day 4: Bangkok - Yangon

  After breakfast, head to the airport for your flight to Yangon. Welcome to Myanmar! Upon arrival at the Yangon airport, your local tour guide will greet you at the airport and escort you to your hotel for check-in and free at leisure until late afternoon. Before sunset, you will pay a visit to the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, the most revered Buddhist temple in Myanmar. Then you will pass by the Shwedagon Pagoda illuminated by beautiful lights.

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  • Yangon

• Day 5: Yangon Sightseeing

  Today, you will explore the city of Yangon from the Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda and Sule Pagoda. After a stroll at the Maha Bandoola Park with Maha Bandoola Garden to see colonial-style high court and city hall, head to the lively Indiantown and Chinatown. In the afternoon, you will visit Bogyoke Aung San Museum and pay a stroll along the bank of Inya Lake.

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  • Yangon

• Day 6: Yangon - Bagan

  Today take a morning flight to the ancient city of Bagan. Upon arrival, you start to visit the colorful market town of Nyaung U and Bagan's most significant shrines - the Shwezigon Pagoda and Htilominlo Temple. In the afternoon, pay a visit to a lacquer-ware workshop to see Myanmar's most treasured handicrafts before exploring the amazing mural paintings at the Myingaba Gu Byaukgyi Temple. Later on, watch the sunset over the Shwesandaw Pagoda.

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  • Bagan

• Day 7: Bagan Sightseeing

  This morning, start a scenic drive to Mount Popa. Along the way, stop by a local village to learn about local culture and lifestyle. For the energetic, there is time to climb up 777 steps to the shrine at the top of the volcanic plug. Have a lunch at a hill resort. Get back to Bagan to visit Ananda Temple and then relax in your hotel for fabulous sunset view.

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• Day 8: Bagan - Heho - Inle Lake

  After breakfast take the flight to Heho and drive to Inle Lake for hotel check-in. Then head for the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the most famous one in Inle Lake region. Pay a visit to a local village to see the production of traditional silks on wooden handlooms and iron ware. Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

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  • Inle Lake

• Day 9: Inle Lake Discovery

  After breakfast, you have a half day sightseeing of the Inle Lake. First visit a local market, then take a scenic boat ride through a long channel where you watch the farmers cultivate their produce.

  Reach the peaceful Indein Village to see a nice pagoda, the ruins, and watch people go about their daily activities. Have lunch at a local restaurant. Afternoon is your leisure time.

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  • Inle Lake

• Day 10: Inle Lake - Heh - Mandalay

  After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Heho airport for the flight to Mandalay. Upon arrival, proceed directly to enjoy a sunset on the boat to view the 1.2km long U Bein Bridge which is 162 years old.

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• Day 11: Mandalay

  Today you will visit City Harbor Bridge and continue to Sagaing Hill, a retreat for Buddhist devotees. The afternoon's tour includes some of the city's most interesting temples and palaces. Begin with Mahamuni Pagoda, the image enshrined here is perhaps the most venerated image in Myanmar, covered in over 15 cm thickness of gold leaf, Shwenandaw Monastery (Shwe Kyaung), the Golden Teak Monastery. Then to Kuthodaw Pagoda, known also as the world's biggest book. Finally, enjoy the spectacular sunset at Mandalay Hill, 230 meters in elevation, commands a magnificent view of the city and surrounding countryside.

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• Day 12: Mandalay - Chiang Mai

  After breakfast, drive to Amarapura to visit Mahagandayon Monastery where more than a thousand monks live and study the Buddha scripture. If time permits, you will have the opportunity to observe the monks having their last meal of the day in total silence.

  And then drive to the airport for flight to Chiang Mai. After a short rest upon arrival, we'll drive to the quaint and picturesque Meow Hill tribe village. Continue to visit Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, a highly revered temple that sits on the top of Mount Doi Suthep overlooking Chiang Mai.

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  • Chiang Mai

• Day 13: Chiang Mai Elephant Park Tour

  An Elephant's Care Day experience awaits you today. At 8:30 to 9:00 your shuttle bus from the hotel will deliver you to Baan Chang Elephant Park, 50 minutes north of the city. In this ethically run, sustainable elephant refuge, you can meet, touch, bathe and play with rescued elephants. After lunch, prepare the elephants' lunch of sticky rice, fruit and herbs and feed it to them. Before being driven back to Chang Mai, don't miss visiting the baby elephants, too. They have their own separate nursery area and will be as curious to meet you as you are to meet them.

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  • Chiang Mai

• Day 14: Chiang Mai

  Today first attend a half-day Thai cooking class instructed by an experienced chef. Take part in every step from selecting ingredients on the local market to preparing the materials. The afternoon is free on your own.

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  • Chiang Mai

• Day 15: Chiang Mai - Bangkok - Hua Hin

  This morning you can enjoy some leisure time before taking the flight back to Bangkok. And then you will be escorted to your hotel in Hua Hin (about 3 hours drive).

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  • Hua Hin

• Day 16: Hua Hin Free Time

  Free day in Hua Hin on your own to relax on the beach.

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  • Hua Hin

• Day 17: Hua Hin Free Time

  Free day in Hua Hin on your own to relax on the beach.

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  • Hua Hin

• Day 18: Hua Hin - Bangkok, Departure

  Be free till time to drive (about 3 hours) back to Bangkok airport for connecting flight to your next destination.

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