Private air-conditioned vehicle
Hotel pick up and drop off
English-speaking guide
Admission fees
Exclusions
Personal expenses
Meals and drinks
Tips for the guide and driver
Visits not mentioned in the program
Terms & Conditions
After payment is made, you will receive a confirmation letter and present it to our staff at the meeting point, either mobile or printed version.
Once booked, refunds are not available due to reservation requirements.
The tour starts at 07:00 and ends approximately at 19:00.
Tour lengths are a time frame based on the average traffic, it might be shortened or extended depending on the traffic conditions.
Full Itinerary
In the early morning, you get picked up at your hotel in Mandalay to drive to Monywa.
Here you visit the Thanboddhay and Bodhi Tahtaung Pagodas. The Thanboddhay pagoda is very different from other sacred buildings that you have visited during your trip, as it is surrounded by a wall and its entrance is adorned by giant elephants. The impressive highlight is the about 43 m high pagoda itself, which is covered by turrets.
The pagoda of the 1,000 bodhi trees, Bodhi Tahtaung, is located in front of a grove of bodhi trees. The interior of both statues can be visited. Its construction was funded by Buddhists from around the world and each of the donor countries presents itself in the form of an exhibition of images, each on one of the 32 floors.
Phowintaung is across Monywa on the other side of the Chindwin River. Although there is a lot to discover, only a few foreign tourists come here. Hundreds of thousands of Buddha statues are said to decorate the sandstone caves of Phowintaung and a variety can be discovered during a visit.