Myanmar Highlights

Arrival at Yangon international airport by flight you will be warmly welcome by Myanmar Pick My Journey English speaking tour guide  and transferred to hotel in  Yangon City .Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) is the largest city in Myanmar. A mix of British colonial architecture, modern high-rises and gilded Buddhist pagodas define its skyline.Overnight in Yangon.

After early breakfast, the tour will continue to one of Myanmar's landmarks, famous for its precarious position and religious importance, KYAIKTIYO the 'Golden Rock' is a huge boulder completely covered by gold leaf and delicately balanced on the edge of a cliff. To reach the pagoda from KIN PUN base camp a steep 11 km road leads to the upper staging point. The journey is made in open trucks.The 'upper area' must be traveled by foot, at present, and the walk is approximately 4 km (1 hour) up a steep path ascending some 500m to the GOLDEN ROCK on top of the mountain range. If you wish to take a more comfortable approach, you can sit back and be carried in sedan chairs by four porters. This will incur an extra cost. On arrival you can enjoy great views over the surrounding jungle and a beautiful sunset. Then return back to the base camp.Overnight in Golden rock.

After breakfast further sightseeing in Golden rock. Explore in the surrounding mountains near Golden Rock, including Crow mouth. Overnightin Golden Rock.KYAIKHTIYO (Golden Rock), A 160-kilometre drive from Yangon, and an invigorating 12-kilometre trek uphill along a meandering trail from the base camp at Kin-pun ... an overwhelming sight will meet your eye - a golden boulder, shaped like a hermit’s head and capped with a 6-metre high gilded pagoda perched precariously on the edge of a precipice, 1121 meters above sea level - the holy rock of Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar’s most popular pilgrimage centre. Legend has it that the Buddha’s sacred hair is enshrined in this rock.Overnight in Golden rock.

After breakfast drive to BAGO (110 km - 3 ½ hours). Sightseeing to a thousand years old SHWEMAWDAW PAGODA with its spire taller than the SHWEDAGON PAGODA, and continue sightseeing with the55-meter long reclining SHWE THA LYAUNG Buddha, which is among one of the country's most impressive images as well as the four giant Buddha images at KYAIK PUN PAGODA. After visiting a 'Mon' weaving and handicraft village producing woven bamboo wares continue to Yangon. Stop en-route by an Allied War Graves cemetery near HTAUK KYAN and a "Nat" tree shrine. Back to Yangon, Overnight  in Yangon.