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BURMA
14 nights from £2795
Flight - 1 night Rangoon - 1 night Pagan - 2 nights Cruise - 2 nights Pyin Oo Lwin - 1 night Mandalay - 2 nights Kalaw - 1 night Inle Lake - 2 nights Rangoon - 1 night Flight - 1 night
key vJv features
Pagan
ThE PaGodaS of PaGan
Rangoon, Pagan, Mandalay, colonial hill stations, Inle Lake and a two-night cruise
· VJV Special Event · VJV Sightseeing Programme · Extension Option · Upgraded Flight Option · Walking Content: 3 (see page 145) · Group Size: 4 25
per person in a twin room/main deck cabin Thai airways from Heathrow
e are pleased to be able to offer a comprehensive tour Day 4 Visit the temples of Tayokepyay, Phaya Thone Zu and 2012 Mondays Mar 12 .......£2795 Dec 3...........£2899 to Burma (Myanmar), including remote Mandalay Nandamanya, then Kyat Kan Cave monastery. By traditional, Apr 2...........£2795 Dec 17.........£3199 and Pagan (Bagan) on the banks of the Irrawaddy colourfully decorated ox-cart through farm villages to rural Oct 15, 29 ..£2799 Dec 31.........£2999 and Rangoon (Yangon) with its impressive Shwedagon Pagoda. temple sites. Enjoy a private candle-lit dinner at a pagoda. Nov 12, 19..£2899 Much has been written since Rudyard Kipling wrote about Day 5 Board RV Paukan for cruise to Mandalay. the physical beauty of Burma - its temples, pagodas, beautiful Day 6 Enjoy the scenery and life on the river banks, calling 2013 Mondays cities, and unspoiled countryside. Most people who visit Burma, at Yandabo village. Jan 14, 28 ..£2899 Mar 25 ........£2999 Feb 11, 25 ..£2999 Apr 8 ...........£2899 however, come away from the experience with more than just Day 7 Disembark. View the colonial buildings, markets and Mar 11 .......£2899 Apr 15 .........£2799 images of the country's sights. What they remember most are botanical garden of the former British hill station of Pyin the people and their evident spirituality. Pagan, a city of 3,000 Oo Lwin. Visit the botanical garden and All Saints church. Supplements per person pagodas, each with its own story and legend, is one of South Sunset drink at the Candacraig. Overnight at the 3-star Single supplement .....................£595 East Asia's greatest archaeological treasures. According to Sir Royal Park View Hotel. Upper deck cabin.........................£75 London/Bangkok/London James Scott "Pagan is in many respects the most remarkable Day 8 Return to Mandalay to visit the Shwe Inbin Thai Airways Royal Silk Class ..£1915 religious city in the world.....the whole space is thickly studded Monastery, the Golden Palace Monastery, Kuthodaw and with pagodas of all sizes and shapes....you cannot move a foot Mahamuni Pagoda. Sunset at Mandalay Hill. Stay two Extension Ngapali Beach or hand without touching something sacred". Today, the view nights at the 4-star Mandalay Hill Resort. (Oct-Mar) across Pagan Plain remains one of the most striking on Earth, Day 9 In Amarapura visit Mahagandayon monastery, U Bein 5 nights .....................................£445 one redbrick pagoda after another occasionally interrupted teak bridge and a silk workshop. By boat and horse cart to Single supplement .....................£245 by a tall white spire reaching skywards. Mandalay neighbours the former royal capital Inwa. Visit Nanmyint watchtower, Price includes the mountain regions of the Shan and Kachin people and is the remains of the ancient palace, Maha Aungmye Bonzan Air travel, UK departure taxes, their main market town in Upper Burma. Rangoon, a city and Bargayar monasteries. transfers, 12 nights' accommodation, of style and dilapidated grandeur, is a pell-mell of Day 10 Fly to Heho. Explore the town of Kalaw, breakfast daily, 8 lunches and 7 old-world charm and modern-day vitality. The wide, a former British hill station on the rim of dinners, itinerary as described, services tree-lined boulevards with Victorian architecture are of guides and local representatives. Shan Plateau. Overnight at the 2-star Hill Pyin oo Lwin · reminiscent of the British Raj whilst Shwedagon Top Villa. · Mandalay Not included Pagan · Pagoda, with its majestic presence, is what Day 11 Visit a local market and take a Travel insurance, visa procurement dominates the cityscape. walk (4 hrs) through hill tribe villages fee, overseas airport taxes, tipping kalaw · ·inle Lake and tea plantations. By road and (see page 145), any government taxes tr A V e L i n B U r m A boat to the 3-star Inle Resort for two or compulsory charges introduced BU R M A Our hotels are generally privately owned after publication. nights. · ngapali with a restaurant and rooms with private Day 12 Boat tour of Inle Lake. See the Independent Arrival (see page 144) facilities but standards are lower than famous leg rowers, floating gardens, Price reduction ............. deduct £500 international standards. Transportation is in Phaungdaw Oo Pagoda, Nga Phe private air-conditioned vehicles with local guides Kyaung Monastery and Inpawkhon ·rangoon accompanying all tours except on flights (note: village. internal flights often take place in the early morning). VJV Special Event Day 13 Visit the hidden Inn Thein Pagoda complex. Fly to Rangoon for DINNER AT A PAGODA itinerArY overnight at the 4-star Traders Hotel. Day 1 Fly overnight from London Heathrow to Rangoon via Day 14 Return flight via Bangkok. Bangkok. Day 15 Arrive Heathrow in the early morning. Day 2 On arrival transfer to the 4-star Traders Hotel for overnight. City tour includes the Sule Pagoda, reclining eXtenSion ngApALi BeAcH Buddha at Chauk Htat Gyi, a barge on Kandawgyi Lake and (oct-mAr onLY) Shwedagon Pagoda. Fly to Burma's undiscovered paradise of Ngapali Day 3 Fly to Pagan for two nights at the 4-star Tharbar Beach, in the Bay of Bengal, for four nights of Gate Hotel. Visit Shwezigon Pagoda, Ku Byanuk Gyi and relaxation at the 4-star Sandoway Resort in 6 acres of Bu Lei Thee Pagoda and Ananda Temple. Visit a lacquer lush tropical gardens. 37 air-conditioned rooms with ware workshop in Myinkaba village, Manuha and Nanbaya Enjoy a private candle-lit dinner at an private facilities, restaurant serving European and Temples and the archaeological museum. Watch the sunset exclusively reserved pagoda for VJV local cuisine, bar, swimming pool and spa. The final clients in Pagan. over the Irrawaddy River from a temple top. night is spent in Rangoon.
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