FULLDAY MANDALAY AND MINGUN TOUR INCLUDING BOAT RIDE WITH ENGLISH SPEAKING GUIDE
After breakfast at hotel, transfer to jetty to board a private local boat for a trip up the Irrawaddy to Mingun (45 min each way). Visit the Mingun Bell which weighs more than 87 tons and being the world’s largest intact bronze bell and the unfinished Mingun Paya. Mingun’s other highlight is the Hisnbyume Pagoda, a white-washed temple built to resemble Mount Meru. Throughout Mingun there are small shops for crafting traditional basketry and other artistic items and there is plenty of time to stop and learn things with the craftsmen and talk with locals to know their ways of life. Then return to Mandalay by boat. In the afternoon visit Mandalay Palace and Golden palace Monastery famous for its intricate woodcarvings. Continue to the Kuthodaw Pagoda, which is known as the world largest book due to the Buddhist scripture carved on 729 marble slabs. Then visit the second most sacred image in Myanmar next to the Shwedagon Pagoda is the Mahamuni Pagoda. Then proceed to a 200-year-old teak bridge, the most photographic site in Myanmar. Watching sunset from the bridge.
Then transfer back to hotel.
Restriction
A minimum of 2 pax required for this tour
