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Culture & Heritage
2 Days/ 1 Nights
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Pyu is the first listed World Heritage site in Myanmar.
After breakfast at hotel, our guide will pick you up at your hotel to escort you for the trip to Pyay which is the district capital of western Bago Division and a small town with beautiful scenery then popular for dairy products and fresh custard apple. It takes about 5 hours drive to Pyay. On the way, visit a small town named Shwe Taung to visit Shwe Myat Mhan Pagoda. “Buddha image with Golden spectacles”. when spectacles were added to pagoda in Kone Baung Dynasty. Proceed to Pyay and check in to Hotel.
After taking relax for a while at hotel, commence your sightseeing again to Sriksetra which is 8 km out of town to visit Hmaw Zar Archaeological Museum; locating at the small village under the same name somewhere around the center of ancient city, it helds the grand culture and history by concrete evidences of stone burial urns, stone slabs bearing stupa and Buddha in bas-relief, gold-plate manuscripts, coins, bronze musician figures, potsherds and so on.
Later on, visit Bow Bow Gyi and Be Be Gyi pagoda then, proceed to Sriksetra which is the largest ancient city in proto-history of Myanmar and was highly flourished in 5 to 9 century A.D. Real immense high city wall with gate-ways, simple stupas and humble temples are still withstanding in and out of city circa and visit Shwe San Daw pagoda It is the center of the town and focus attraction for visitor especially late evening and early night. Then, drive back to hotel and overnight.
After breakfast at hotel, drive across the Ayeyarwaddy river to Htonebo village about 2 hours. Then, take a short boat ride down to the unique mountain named “A Kaut Taung”. It is a little far-off site from the town but the attraction is real immense. Countless number of Buddhas in row by row on the natural rock overwhelming the majestic Ayerwaddy River is just beautiful and breathe taking scene. After that return back to Yangon, in the evening arrive to Yangon.
Bookings require min. 2 people
Immo Mäueler
Travelling by car through Myanmar