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Day 6 Bagan • Optional Hot-Air Balloon pieces. Placing gold leaf on a Buddha image
Ride • Optional Lives Behind Bagan’s
Ancient Pagodas tour
You may wish to rise early this morning for
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sun rising over the ancient temples of Bagan.
Afterwards, enjoy a Champagne toast and
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Then we gain another unique perspective of
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ancient temples of Bagan is an unforgettable
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and visit Khayminga Temple for a panoramic
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diversion to a local village to see how palm
sugar is made. Then we’ll return to the hotel
for lunch on our own.
After a busy morning, enjoy time at leisure
this afternoon and dinner on your own.
Or, perhaps you’ll join our optional tour
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we’ll visit a nearby village to learn more about
local life before enjoying dinner at a nearby
restaurant, all included with the tour.
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Day 7 Fly to Mandalay • Explore city
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to Mandalay. Upon arrival, we’ll stop at the
Mahamuni Buddha, the most sacred shrine
in upper Burma, covered with so much gold
leaf that its body has lost all proportion.
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brings great merit to the faithful, so there
is a steady growth of gold layers on Buddha
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orientation drive around the city, pausing for
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to our hotel, we’ll have some free time. You
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Monastery and Kuthodaw Pagoda, before
returning to our hotel. Dinner this evening is
on your own.
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Day 8 Boat ride to Mingun •
Explore Mandalay
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for a ride upriver to the village of Mingun.
Here, we get a glimpse of the local culture
and stop to see one of the world’s largest
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in at 90 tons. Bells are a common feature
used in many of Burma’s religious rituals.
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performing a good deed so they can share
with others the merit they earned. Burmese
Buddhists consider it one of the world’s
sweetest sounds.
Following lunch, we’ll visit the longest
wooden bridge in Burma. The U Bein
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of a mile over the shallow Thaung Thaman
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withstood the elements for more than two
centuries.
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own again this evening.
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