DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN YANGON
Arrive at the airport, pick-up and transfer to hotel. In the afternoon Yangon´s finest the – gold plated monuments like the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, standing 109 m tall. Accommodation: 1 night Note: If your arrival is in the afternoon, we take you on this city tour prior to your leaving Yangon.

DAY 2: YANGON – BAGAN
Early morning flight to Bagan (80 minutes). Full day visit of the world´s largest temple and pagoda complex. This is not a temple rallye, we show you the most beautiful and most important monuments, at a leisurely pace true to our motto: less is more. Accommodation: 2 nights

DAY 3: BAGAN – MOUNT POPA – SALE
Another full day of exceptional monuments around Bagan: Day trip to Mount Popa, Myanmar´s “Olympus of the spirits (nats)”, we climb the stairs leading to the peak in company of the many scampering monkeys. On to Sale, the old river town with its richly carved wooden monastery. In the evening we attend the traditional marionette theatre (string puppets).

DAY 4: BAGAN – AMARAPURA – MANDALAY
Morning flight (30 minutes) to Burma´s last royal city where the last Burmese dynasty had to abdicate at the end of the 19th century when the British expanded their Colonial Empire. Mandalay´s plethora of sights
is impressive – the country’s biggest and most beautiful Golden Buddha, the largest Marble Buddha … and you can go treasure hunting in the city´s manifold quaint boutiques. But first we visit the near-by royal city of Amarapura with its many temples and the world´s longest teakwood bridge. Accommodation: 2 nights

DAY 5: MANDALAY – MINGUN
We travel the Ayeyarwady, the mighty Elephant River and enjoy its sights – washerwomen plying their trade among buffalo carts. It takes one hour upstream to reach Mingun where a mighty king once tried to build the world´s biggest pagoda – and failed. Yet even the dimension of his failure is impressive.

DAY 6: MANDALAY – HEHO - LAKE INLE
Early morning flight to Heho on the Shan plateau and on to Lake Inle. We spend this morning on the boat visiting floating gardens and floating villages, floating markets and floating pagodas – the floating world of the Intha, the famous leg-rowing fishermen. This stunning boat excursion takes several hours and usually leaves an indelible impression with the visitors.

DAY 7: INLE - HEHO - YANGON & DEPARTURE
Flight to Yangon (about 1 hour). Transfer to the airport to connect with departure flight.