Bagan to Mandalay

PAGAN

• Activities:

  Embark the ship. tour around Bagan, visit ancient temples, pagodas and lacquer workshop

• Meal:

  Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  111,

Embark your ship in Pagan before lunch.

In the afternoon, visit a Lacquerware workshop to explore the process of making lacquer handicrafts which is the specialty craft of Pagan.

Continue to the unique Payathonezu, three inter-connected temples with a narrow passage built in the late 13th century.

End the day with a visit to Dhamayangyi from AD 1170, the widest and largest temple in Pagan.

Watch the sunset from the top of Taung Guni temple before returning to the ship.

Overnight Pagan.

SALAY - AYARDAW - TANT-CHI-TAUNG

• Activities:

  Sail upstream the Irrawaddy River, stop at and visit Salay, Pakhannge, Tan-Chi-Taung mountains, Min-Nan-Thu village

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  111,

DAY 2 SALAY - AYARDAW - TANT-CHI-TAUNG

Set sail early morning to Salay, a small town which was once a bustling trading port, now a sleepy village filled with colonial architectural treasures and timeless teak monasteries.

Walk to Yoke-Sone Kyaung, the best-known teak carved monastery in Burma, stopping at Salay House on return.

Sail upriver to the Ayardaw charity clinic supported by Pandaw then drive up the winding road of the Tant-Chi-Taung mountain to visit the hill-top stupa.

Late afternoon, watch the traditional paper-mache elephant dance performed by the villagers from Tant-Chi.

Moor overnight near Nyaung U.

PAKOKKU

• Activities:

  Visit the town centre, afternoon sail towards Mandalay

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  111,

Explore Pakokku, experiencing the local market and town centre by Tuk Tuk.

Pakkoku is a city of about 100,000 inhabitants located 30 km from Pagan. Main produce are tobacco, cotton, peanuts, Thanatkha (traditional make-up and sun lotion) and textiles. Visit Pakokku’s main market by Tuk Tuk.

Stop at a cheroot workshop and discover how traditional cheroot cigars are made.

Moor overnight at Aung Pan Chaung near the Chindwin confluence.

YANDABO

• Activities:

  Discover Yandabo village, sail towards Mandalay

• Meal:

  Breakfast],Lunch],Dinner]

• Included:

  111,

Explore Yandabo village, famous for its production of terracotta pottery from the river bank clay.

This village is well-known as the place where the first Anglo-Burmese war ended by the peace treaty signed in 1826. Morning walking tour and a visit to a pottery workshop to see first-hand the production process. This is a hands-on experience which you are welcome to try.

Visit the Pandaw supported Yandabo School (if no school holidays).

Afternoon sailing and moor overnight at Pauk-taw Pauk-myaing village near Ava.

SAGAING,MANDALAY

• Activities:

  Disembark

• Meal:

  Breakfast]

• Included:

  111,

By 09:00 After breakfast disembark at Sagaing.