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The Golden Land - Your Itinerary
15 days
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What's included:
- Scheduled direct flights, including U.K. airport passenger duty and service charge
- The services of an experienced Bales Tour Manager from London, who takes care of all the tipping on your behalf
- English-speaking guides, exclusive to the Bales group, for all included sightseeing
- Private air-conditioned vehicles, exclusive to the Bales group
- Sightseeing as detailed, including entrance fees
- Modern first class hotels and cruise boat
- 12 full breakfasts, 3 lunches and 1 dinner
- Average group size 16 passengers
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Day 1
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 Day 1
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Depart London Heathrow this evening on a Thai Airways via Bangkok.
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Day 2
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 Day 2
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Connect with onward flight to Yangon this morning, arriving in the former capital
early evening, where we transfer to the Shangri-La Traders Hotel.
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Day 3
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 Day 3
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Morning visit to Sule Pagoda and the markets of Rangoon’s old colonial quarter.
After lunch visit the sacred site of the dominating gilded Shwe Dagon Pagoda, which
legend says is 2,500 years old, to watch the sunset.
Meals: B, L
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Day 4
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 Day 4
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Free day, with option to visit Bago, travelling via Taukkyan, the largest war
cemetery in Myanmar and the impressive Shwemawdaw Pagoda
Meals: B
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Day 5
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 Day 5
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We fly to Bagan this morning for our stay at the Thiripyitsaya Sakura Hotel.
Meals: B, L
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Day 6
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 Day 6
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Full day’s sightseeing of Bagan and its fabulous archaeological ruins.
Comparable with the great Temples of Angkor, there are more than 2,000 pagodas
and at least the same number again of ancient temple ruins.
Meals: B
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Day 7
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 Day 7
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Today is free, perhaps taking an optional visit to Mount Popa and Salay.
Meals: B
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Day 8
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 Day 8
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Embarking the Paukan 2007 for a 2-night cruise along the Irrawaddy River, lunch
is served shortly after we set sail and this afternoon we visit a river village.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 9
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 Day 9
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Full day’s cruising along Myanmar’s captivating riverside landscapes, passing
Mingun Pagoda and Sagaing Temple and stopping off at Yandabo village en route, a
picturesque settlement famed for its locally made pottery. Continuing up river the boat
moors up for the night at a traditional village close to the Ava Bridge.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 10
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 Day 10
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Disembarking the boat in Mandalay we transfer to the Sedona Hotel. This
afternoon we tour the city, including the Mahamuni Pagoda and Mandalay Hill.
Meals: B
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Day 11
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 Day 11
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A full day tour of the ancient cities of Ava and Amarapura, former capitals of
the Burmese Kingdom, very different but equally fascinating sites.
Meals: B
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Day 12
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 Day 12
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Today is free with the option to visit the beautiful landscapes and famous
gardens around Maymyo, an old colonial hill station in the Shan Hills.
Meals: B
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Day 13
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 Day 13
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After a leisurely morning fly to Yangon and transfer to the Traders Hotel.
Meals: B
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Day 14
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Day 14
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Day at leisure. Your room is reserved until the evening departure to the airport for Thai Airways flight via Bangkok to London Heathrow arriving the following morning.
Meals: B
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Day 15
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 Day 15
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Arrive London Heathrow in the early morning.
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