Inle Lake Sightseeing (Full Day)

Everything you see around Inlay Lake is filled with green and fresh as well as full of culturtorious scenery. Spending a fantastic day on motorized boat exploring around the floating market, pass through the floating flowers and vegetables gardens of the Intha tribes. In clear weather and breathing cool breeze, watch as the one leg rowers pull up their cylindrical shape nets from the cool, clear emerald green waters below lure one's heart. Visit PHAUNG DAW OO Pagoda, the holiest religious site in southern Shan State. Then visit Inn Paw Khon for traditional cottage of Lotus and SILK WEAVING on wooden handlooms, umbrella workshop and Shan hand made paper at Ywama Village. Silversmith and blacksmiths workshops, cheroot and boat curving, Shan handicrafts popular brightly colored Shan cotton bags and natural dyed Shan trousers and shirts are best favorite of visitors. Continue by boat to visit NGA PHE KYAUNG (Jumping Cats Monastery) one of the oldest monasteries on the lake and one can see ancient Buddha statues which are more than 200 years old.  The splendour of sunrise as well as the sunset gazing from this idyllic lake with the Shan mountain range as backdrop enchants all visitors.

*If you visit to Inle Lake at October, You can have a chance to watch Boat Races rowing by leg in Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival. Unlike other pagoda festivals in Myanmar, features the famous Inle that attracts spectators from near and far. Both men and women participate that boat races provide exciting additional entertainment and are well worth watching.


**You can Visit to the other places such as Indein ancient pagoda built around 10th centaury, Padaung Village where you can see the women with long elegant neck with Bronze rings weaving on the traditional wooden looms and Saga ancient old city as time allows.

Inle Day Return Trip

Minethauk - Indein

You can make a visit to Maing Thauk on the edge of Inle Lake by boat.  Walk up a dirt track through the village and continue up the hill to a stupa which has fantastic views out over the lake and surrounding hills. The walk takes around 2 hours round trip and, although uphill, the route is not steep. In the afternoon, enjoy another boat tour to Indaing, about one hour ride to the western end of the Lake. The Visitors compare this pagoda with the "Death Ankawott" in Cambodia. More than 1500 ruin pagodas; hide in the bushes will give you the impressions of that you were in the 12th -13th Centuries ago. The Passage way to the pagoda stand upright with 403 pillars which mysterious place is at the end of the marvelous Indein creek, which connected with Inle Lake. The creek is narrow with many twists and turns. The boat takes you through a long channel where you watch the farmers cultivate their produce. This ride is one of the most scenic boat tours on Lake Inle. On the way back, go through the forest lane near the creek is fantastic.

Sagar

You will leave the lake and continue through a narrow channel to the southern part of the lake. Visit THAKONG PAGODA then continue to SANGHA village, which was once a Shan Prince village. It is a ruined royal capital with ancient monasteries and Pagodas at the southern end of Inle Lake, in a beautiful, isolated setting far from villages. Walk through this quiet village, talk to the villagers and visit the remains of some old pagodas. Not much has changed over the centuries. You may also stop a local rice wine distillery.


Taunggyi – Kakku

Arrive in the morning, leave Nyaung Shwe and drive up through the hills to TAUNGGYI, capital of Southern Shan State and a former British hill station.  Visit the local market where minority people sell their produce such as tea leaves, fresh vegetables, beans and a cheroot factory. Just a couple of hours from Taunggyi on tarred road, discover the "long lost" ruins of KAKKU in countryside inhabited by the Pa O people. Situated in the rolling Shan Hills, Kakku pagoda is very unusual. The Pa O people believe that the original pagoda was built on the site some 2,000 years ago. Dozens of small stupas surround the main pagoda in a huge circle. Visit one of the many PA O VILLAGES near Kakku and see a huge monastery on the way back to Taunggyi. Transfer back to Nyaung Shwe/Inle.

Pindaya ( Full Day Sightseeing )

In the morning, visit magnificent PINDAYA CAVES, set in a limestone ridge overlooking a picturesque lake, where thousands of different types of Buddha images are on display in the various cave chambers that branches out widely, displaying more than 8,000 Buddha images made of wood, marble, lacquer, brick, stone and bronze. Many devoted Buddhist pilgrims have placed them there over the centuries. The collection of these images in such a setting is unique and well worth seeing.  There are numerous cottage business and workshop such as Traditional Shan paper, dried potatoes and tea leave   business, and a major handicraft industry in Pindaya is umbrella manufacturing. The making of these pretty hand-made paper umbrellas can be seen in several workshops in town.

Kalaw ( Full day Sightseeing )

Visit the Hnee Paya Pagoda, the large sitting image, woven with bamboo are woven to form the shape and covered with cloth dipped in lacquer then glided with real gold also worth visiting. Kalaw is the starting point for the journey to exciting. Explore the local market and the ethnic minority village surrounded by pine forests, Myanmar's most beautiful gardens.