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ITINERARY Day 8 : Mandalay DAY 8

06.00 Check out of hotel and transfer to Yangon International
Airport
DAY 7 08.00 – 09.25 Fly from Yangon to Mandalay
Day 7 : Yangon 10.00 – 11.30 U Bien Bridge
The world’s longest teakwood bridge, 1.2 kilometers
08.00 – 11.00 Check out of hotel and travel to Yangon via Bago in length on 1086 posts, it was built in 1850 at the end
(121 km., 3 hrs.) of King Mindon’s reign in Amarapura to cross
11.00 – 12.00 Lunch in Bago Thaungthaman Lake.
12.00 – 14.00 Travel from Bago to Yangon (70 km., 2 hrs.) 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Bogyoke Aung San Market (Talad Scott) 13.30 – 15.00 Shwenandaw Kyaung (Golden Palace Monastery)
Myanmar’s most famous market, it has everything, Once the royal apartment of King Mindon covered in
traditional longyi, clothing, jewelry, silver work, gold leaf, his son had the intricately carved structure,
Buddha images carved from sandalwood, antique now natural teak, moved from his palace in 1880. Since
lanterns and vases, etc. then, it has served as the center of the monastery.
16.00 – 17.00 Strand Road 15.30 – 16.30 Kuthodaw Pagoda (Largest Book in the World)
Take a tour of Yangon’s colonial buildings, some The central gilded stupa rising 57 meters is surrounded
abandoned, many restored and well-preserved, by 729 Dharma Ceti each enshrining a marble tablet
while the government chooses to reside in new inscribed with a page on each side of the Tripitika,
edifices. recounting the teachings of the Buddha.
17.00 – 19.00 Shwedagon Pagoda 17.00 – 18.00 King Galon Gold Leaf Workshop
The holiest of holies of Myanmar Buddhists, the The last to produce gold leaf by pounding pure gold
golden pagoda stands atop Thienguttara, or sheets till they are infinitesimally thin, this workshop
Singuttata Hill. Adorned with over 5,000 precious supplies pagodas and temples so devotees can make
stones, it is crowned with a diamond-studded, solid merit by attaching these offerings on revered Buddha
gold, hti, umbrella, 99 meters from its base. images.
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner 18.30 – 19.30 Dinner
20.00 Check in to hotel and relax 19.30 Check in to hotel and relax
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