Breakfast at Hotel, transfer to Airport to take a flight to Sittwe (07:30 – 08:55), upon arrival, transfer to your hotel in Sittwe. After refreshment at Hotel, begin our sightseeing first to Cultural Museum – the introduction to the geographical and cultural value of the area. Next visit to A Buddhist monastery to see the best collections of antique items of that region and traditional hand weaving cottage industry. Late in the afternoon we will visit the most famous pagoda “Pyi-lone-chan-tha” mean everyone is wealthy and peaceful. In the evening, visit around the town and enjoy the sunset from view point beach.
Overnight in Sittwe.
After breakfast at Hotel, transfer to jetty for a chartered boat trip on the Kaladan river (70 km, 5-6 hours upstream) to the ancient capital of Mrauk Oo. On the way, stop at Mro or Khamee (one of the tribe of RAKHINE) village to see rural ways of life. Upon arrival, transfer to Hotel.
Overnight in Mrauk Oo. (Picnic lunch on board)
After breakfast, tour ancient city includes remains of walls, gateways and the unusual 16th century temples such as Chitthaung Stupa, Anndaw Thein, Lemyathna, Laumgbwann-brauk, Khraungkaik Pitaka, Bodi Shwegu, Rata na MannAung, Sakya MannAung. Afternoon sightseeing, visit to Palace Site, Zina mannAung, Mong Khamoung Temple, Anuma Lake, Laksay Kan, Wuthay Image, Panzeemraung, Shun Pun, Pharabaw, Loka MannAung. Finally, enjoy sunset at Shwe Taung Hill wit h overview of the Mrauk Oo City.
Overnight in Mrauk Oo.
After breakfast, transfer to starting point village, Sin O Chay village by local truck. It may take 45minutes or 1 hour through local rice field. Bumpy and dusty Road to starting point is a part of your trekking experience for today. From Sin O Chay village, we will start to trek to
Next village; Lay Nhin Taung village (Approx: 45 minutes), from there to Kyauktada
Village (Approx: 30 minutes). Proceed to Pay Gyi village (Approx: 30 minutes).After having
Looking around that village for ways of people life, continue to Kreik Chaung village
(Approx: 30 minutes) where you can see Chin women who took tattoo on their faces for their old traditional custom. It is a place, as well where you can have lunch. After lunch, have to decide yourself for the rest part of trekking. If you don’t want to trek for the rest part of trekking.
NO PROBLEM! You have support motorized small canoe nearby that village; you can get on it and enjoy beautiful scenery. For people who want to keep going for trekking, we have to cross that creek by small canoe to Maw village. From there, continue to Sin Ball Kind Village (Approx: 1hour) and proceed to Let Phat village (Approx: 45 minutes) where your support motorized canoe is waiting for transfer (Approx: 1 hour) to Pho Phyu Kyun jetty where your local truck is waiting for transfer to your hotel back.
After breakfast, we head out early in the morning by road to Sin Oh Village through colorful paddy field. Villages in this region are hidden under the trees of lemon, mango, lychee and etc. Farm of corn, peanut, watermelon are widely grown on the fertilized soil of the river bank. Afterwards, transfer to Mrauk Oo jetty, leave for Chin village (3 hours boat ride) up to Leymro river. Proceed to Chin Village, sightseeing around the village, women with Tattoo, traditional, living style (almost going to be fall down houses are prop by bamboo). En route, you can experience the meandering river like a snake, 90 degree vertical up right standing mountains, flying birds, crystal clear water with pebbles and fishes. Picnic lunch in a bamboo house in Sin Gay village and back to Mrauk Oo with the sunset on the river. Overnight in Mrauk Oo.
After breakfast, visit Mrauk Oo market, and then transfer to jetty to enjoy a downriver journey return to Sittwe. Upon arrival, transfer to Airport to take a flight to Yangon. Transfer to Hotel in Yangon.
Overnight in Yangon.
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