DAY 1: Sat - Departure from USA
- Depart the USA for Bangkok. Your international flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment.
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DAY 2: Sun - Arrival Bangkok
- Upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi Airport, meet and greet with our English speaking guide, private transfer to check in at Hotel in Bangkok.
- Overnight: Bangkok
- Meal: Optional (Lunch & Dinner)
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DAY 3: Mon - Bangkok City Tour
- Meet our English speaking guide, private transfer for City temples, Grand Palace and Thonburi Klong.
- This tour includes of the most beautiful places in Bangkok: Wat Trimitr with its invaluable Golden Buddha (5 ½ tons of solid gold) Wat Pho, the most extensive temple in Bangkok, with its colossal Reclining Buddha and the Chedis of The Kings.
- The Grand Palace is one of the most beautiful samples of an ancient Siamese court. It used to be the residence of the Kings of Thailand. Here you will see palaces which were used for different occasions: the Funeral Palace, the Reception Palace, the Throne Hall, the Coronation Hall, the Royal Guest House, and the beautiful Emerald Buddha Temple. This tour includes Thonburi is the western part of Bangkok, situated on the right side of the Chao Phya River.
- Its many canals had originally given Bangkok the name Venice of The East Passing by boat along the canals had originally given Bangkok the nameVenice of the East Passing by boat along the canals gives you a firsthand impression of the scenic life along Bangkok waterways.
- Also visit the Royal Barges and the Temple of Dawn.
- Finishing the tour will be a visit to the famous jewelry store Gems Gallery.
- Overnight: Bangkok
- Meals: Breakfast and Lunch, Optional (Dinner)
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DAY 4: Tue - Bagan, Yangon
- After Breakfast at Hotel transfer to Suvarnabhumi airport for your flight to Yangon.
- After passing through the immigration and customs formalities, our driver and professional guide will welcome you at Yangon International airport and transfer to the Hotel.
- Overnight: Yangon
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 5: Wed - Full Day Tour Yangon
- Full day tour to discover the colorful capital of Myanmar with a close looks at the local life of this historical city. By car and partly on foot this tour takes in the Sule pagoda in the middle of the city, walk around to see the Mahabandoola Park, the colonial courthouse and the city hall. From there walking tour around the colonial area with the historical buildings will start, breaking at a local teashop to enjoy Burmese food and tea and the typical atmosphere.
- Continue along the famous Strand Road and visit the bustling Yangon harbor. Learn about the parks, religious temples and unique buildings as you travel through this diverse urban landscape. 
- Heading to Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda to see a huge reclining Buddha image and also the most well-known Buddhist temple in Bahan Township. The reclining Buddha is amazing and there are fantastic vantage points throughout the building that allow unique perspectives on the shapes and colors of his pigmentation and other qualities.
- Complete the day with an extended visit to Karawait Palace and enjoy sunset at Kandawgyi (Royal Lake) park.
- Drive back to hotel and free time at your leisure.
- Overnight: Yangon
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 6: Thu - Yangon, Bagan
- Check out hotel and transfer to the airport for domestic flight to Bagan (1 hr. 20 minutes flying). Arrive Nyaung U airport, welcome by our tour guide and driver then transfer to the hotel. An all-day visit to this huge area - a day full of culture. But we will avoid hectic tourism and will show you the most beautiful temples and pagodas, leisurely but in detail.
- Shwezigon Pagoda: One of the oldest stupas in Bagan area built by the great two kings Anawrahta and Kyanzittha. The Stupa graceful bell shape became a prototype for virtually all later stupas over Myanmar. It is known as the site where the 37 pre-Buddhist nat were first officially endorsed Burma monarchy.  
- Ananda Pahto: whose interior seems almost Gothic and is considered to be the most beautiful among all the temples of Bagan. Facing outward from the centre of the cube are four 9.5m standing Buddhas.  
- Enjoy wonderful sunset at the top of the temple and then transfer to the hotel
- Overnight: Bagan
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 7: Fri - Full Day Tour Bagan
- In the morning, you will stroll through the marketplace of Nyaung U, and get a glimpse into the lifestyle of Burmese people.
- Visit Payarthonezu Temple Complex, Min Nan Thu Village. 
- Continue on, visit Gubyaukgyi Temple admiring the fine stuccowork, Nanpaya temple, built in the Mon style with intricate stone carvings, and said once to have been Manuhas residence.
- Htinlominlo Pahto: built by King Nantaungmya in 1218. Inside the 46m-high temple, there are four Buddhas on the lower and upper floors. Traces of old murals are also still visible. 
- Lacquer ware: visit traditional manufacture of unique Bagan lacquer ware. 
- Enjoy sunset at one of the monuments along Ayeyarwady River.
- Overnight: Bagan
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 8: Sat - Bagan, Mandalay
- Transfer to Nyaung Oo Airport for the domestic flight to Mandalay. Mandalay was briefly the Burmese capital in the second half on the 19th century. It is home to about one million people and remains the economic, cultural and religious heart of upper Myanmar. 
- After check in at Hotel, visit to Mahamuni Buddha Image: housing the country´s holiest Buddha image, century-old and legendary Arakan Buddha, made of pure gold. 4m-high seated image is cast in bronze, but over the years thousands of devout Buddhists have completely covered the figure in a 15cm-thick layer of gold leaf. 
- Continue visit to Gold leave pounding place, marble and Bronze making places, and weaving silk cottage. 
- Kyauktawgyi Pagoda: the Buddha image make of marble stone and walk through the pagoda prescient. 
- Kuthodaw Pagoda:  with its 729 marble slabs showing the entire Buddhist canon and commemorating the Fifth Buddhist World Council at the end of last century. 
- Mandalay Hill: if you are still feeling fresh, you might climb up to the top of Mandalay Hill for a bird´s eye view (or take the elevator). 
- Visit to the temples and small pagodas of former ancient capital Amarapura (Sanskrit for Beautiful town).
- Enjoy sunset at the magnificent teak bridge of U Bein, which is over 200 years old. It is the longest teak bridge in the world and then return to the hotel for an evening at leisure.
- Overnight: Mandalay
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 9: Sun - Ayeyarwaddy River Cruise, Mingun, Ava, Sagaing
- Today you will travel the Ayeyarwaddy, the mighty Elephant River, and enjoy its sights washerwomen among buffalo carts at the river bank. It takes one hour upstream to reach Mingun where is best known for its gigantic, unfinished stupa, the Mingun Pahtodawgyi, which was meant to be the largest in the world (at a projected height of 150 meters), but now lies ravaged by earthquakes on the western banks of the Irrawaddy. The structure is an impressive sight, and there are panoramic views from the top.
- Continue drive to Inwa (Ava) in the afternoon, take the local ferry to visit Innwa (Ava), located on an island between the Ayeyarwady and the Myitnge Rivers. You will visit Innwa by horse cart and pass through the ancient city walls to visit a brick and stucco monastery called Maha Aungmye Bonzan (also known as Ohk Kyaung). 
- Continue to Nanmyin Watch Tower the climb to the top offers lovely views over the river.  See also the impressive wooden monastery of Bagaya Kyaung.  
- Next visit Sagaing hills meditation centre, to a hilltop pagoda you will be fascinated by the view over temples and pagodas in Sagaing and over Ayeyarwaddy River.
- Drive back to Mandalay in the late afternoon
- Overnight: Mandalay
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 10: Mon - Mandalay – Pyin Oo Lwin - Mandalay
- Road journey to Pyin U Lwin: After breakfast at the hotel, you will take a very beautiful scenic drive of around 2 hours to the colonial hill station formerly known as Maymyo which is famous mostly for its local fruits, jams, vegetables and fruit wines. 
- Guided tour in and around Pyin-U-Lwin: On arrival explore Pyin-U-Lwin, a delightful small town of colonial style buildings, markets and a botanical garden. After lunch venture out to visit the Peik Khyin Myaung Caves which are almost as old as the land itself and proceed to Pwe Kyauk Water Falls, a favorite picnic spot for the locals.
- Drive back to Mandalay in the late afternoon
- Overnight: Mandalay
- Meals: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 11: Tues - Mandalay, Heho, Pindaya, Inle Lake
- Morning drive to Mandalay Airport for flight to Heho. Welcome by our professional guide and driver at Heho Airport. Enjoy a scenic drive to Pindaya through the picturesque countryside and mountain fields of Shan State.
- Visit Pindaya limestone cave with its maze of chambers displaying more than 8,000 Buddha statues and local handicraft workshops producing Shan paper made from mulberry bark and traditional umbrellas made from the same paper that are used by monks all around the country.
- Continue to enjoy a scenic one-hour drive to Myanmar second largest lake, Inle, which measure 70km². Located at an altitude of 880 meters, the lake is also one of the highest in the country, with a cool climate and exceptional flora and fauna. Inle is famous for its unique leg-rowers. This unusual style of rowing requires remarkable balance and definitely takes some practice
- Overnight: Inle Lake
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 12: Wed - Inle Lake Full Day Tour
- Enjoy a boat trip on the lake and observe the beautiful surroundings en route to the floating market and floating gardens. Visit the rural but bustling five-day market and observe locals and several minority groups wearing traditional costumes trading farm produce such as vegetables, fruits, dried tea leaves as well as animals. The vibrant atmosphere of the market makes it a jolly experience. (The date of this special market is set by the local people and the location changes every 5 days, your guide will inform you of the exact location).
- Visit to the southwest of the lake where the Indein pagoda complex is situated.
- Take the small covered path from the Pa O tribe village to a monastery and the very impressive ruins of hundreds of ancient pagodas, some hidden under vegetation. The main stupa-area on the top of the hill offers breathtaking views over the surroundings and into the valley with the lake in the far distance. 
- You will visit Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the most highly revered monastery in the Inle Lake area. Discover the traditional handicrafts silk weaving on wooden handlooms and a blacksmith shop. On the lake, you can see traditional fishing methods by using the leg rowing technique.
- We proceed to the floating garden - KyunHmyaw, which was built-up from strips of water hyacinth and mud, dredged from the lake bed, which breaks down into a rich humus it take 50 years to produce a layer of 1m thick.
- Relax and enjoy spectacular sunset views over Inle Lake before returning to your hotel.
- Overnight: Inle Lake
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 13: Thu - Inle Lake, Heho, Yangon, Ngwe Saung Beach
- After breakfast at the hotel, transfer back to Heho airport for your flight to Yangon. We will pick you up at Yangon airport and road journey to Ngwe Saung Beach. Your will take a scenic drive of around 5 hours from Yangon to Ngwe Saung Beach and transferred to your hotel to check in and then the rest of the day is at leisure to relax by the pool or the beach.
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 14: Fri - Ngwe Saung Beach
- At leisure by the beach: The beach stretches for several kilometers and Ngwe Saung village can be found towards the northern end it has a host of places that serve a variety of fantastic seafood dishes, including crab, shrimp, lobster, and various types of fish, as well as shops selling locally-produced handicrafts.
- During the day you can walk to the small island towards the southern end of Ngwe Saung beach, which is accessible by foot when the tide is out. It offers panoramic views of the beach and out to sea from its summit and the coral and brightly colored fish that can be found in the waters that surround it.
- Optional to extend more days at the beach
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 15: Sat - Ngwe Saung Beach, Yangon
- After breakfast, on the way back to Yangon, we can visit Pathein which is Myanmar fifth largest city would probably come as a surprise to most visitors, because it has a quiet, small-town feel.
- Continue to drive to Yangon and transfer to the hotel.
- Overnight: Yangon
- Meal: Breakfast, Optional (Lunch and Dinner)
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DAY 16: Sun - Departure
- After breakfast at the hotel and transfer to airport for international departure flight.
- Meals: Breakfast
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