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Our specials from 12 days – 18 days
 Myanmar
Travel – 12 days Myanmar A Mix of Everything
Enjoy “High Tea” at the Strand Hotel in Yangon, bring
some flowers to the Royal Mother of Bago, explore the
city of four million pagodas, fly by hot air Balloon
over Bagan, board the RV Paukan 2007, on an
unforgettable river cruise to Mandalay, the city of the
last Myanmar King’s, travel to Amarapura the “City of
Immortals”, visit the Sagaing Hills, a retreat for
Buddhist devotees with numerous Pagodas, monasteries and
nunneries and take a boat for excursions on Inle Lake
(25 km) famous for its unique one-leg rowers, typical
floating gardens, local methods of fishing and village
life.
 Myanmar
Travel – 12 days Myanmar with Phaung Daw Oo Festival
The Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is one of the most
famous pagoda festival in Myanmar. 4 Buddha Images are
taken around the lake in a gilded barge pulled by
hundreds of leg-rowers in long canoes in front. These
images sometimes stay over night at some villages and
sometimes just stop over for a short while. Rowing
competitions are also held. Pilgrims from all over the
country come to this festival to pay homage to the
Buddha Images. Many are from the plains, some from the
mountains, while others are from small remote villages
but everybody is here to gain merit and enjoy the
festive air of the event.
 Myanmar Travel – 14 days Myanmar with Taunggyi Balloon
Festival
The Taunggyi Balloon festival is held only once a year
after the end of the Buddhist Lent. Traditionally it is
a festival to pay homage to the Sulamani Pagoda in
heaven by sending up decorated balloons. The paper
balloons are 15-20 feet tall, decorated on the outside
with colored cellophane lanterns. The lantern contain
candles, forming different designs. A flame heats the
air in the balloon which quickly ascend, carrying a
10-15 foot long tail, filled with various types of
firecrackers, that continuously light as the balloons
ascend. Watch the making of the small children’s
balloons, in the shapes of various animals and mythical
creatures (if not there you can see this in ANY city in
Myanmar!) and of course the Competition between
individual villages for best decorated and high flying
balloons.
Myanmar
Travel – 18 days Myanmar Overland
Travel from Yangon to Bago, the ancient capital of the
Mon Kings from the 14th through the 16th century, travel
to Taungoo, the starting point to visit one of the
Elephant Camps towards the Bago mountain ranges and
travel to Kalaw, a former British colonial town. After a
day on Inle Lake, famous for its unique one-leg rowers,
typical floating gardens, local methods of fishing and
village life, travel via Pindaya, a charming village
with its paper umbrella cottage industry, to Mandalay,
the city of the last Myanmar King’s. Travel from
Mandalay via Mt. Popa, home to Myanmar's most powerful "
nats ", to Bagan where thousands of decaying pagodas
rises majestically from the plain to create a timeless
scene, saluting a glorious past. A whole day drive will
bring you to Pyay the ancient capital of Pyu Dynasty
Sriksetra, where you can find some of the oldest pagodas
in Myanmar and travel back to Yangon, "The Garden City
of the East" with the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most
significant pagoda and the pride of Myanmar.
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