Day 1 Arrival Yangon
Arrive to Yangon and transfer to your hotel. Visit Colonial Style Buildings, Sule Pagoda
and City Hall. Continue to visit Kandawgyi Park, Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda. Enjoy sunset
at Shwedagon Pagoda.
Day 2 Yangon – Kyaiktiyo
Drive out of Yangon to the ancient capital of Bago (Pegu). From Bago,drive through
seemingly endless paddy fields to the small town of Kyaikto and on to the 'base camp' of
Kinpun. In the afternoon, take a local truck up a bumpy track to upper camp of Kyaikhtiyo.
From here, walk up to the legendary 'Golden Rock'. (The walk takes around 10 minutes and
those unwilling, or not fit enough to walk can hire four porters to carry them in a sedan
chair). Weather permitting, sunset views from Mount Kyaiktiyo are amazing.
Day 3 Kyaiktiyo – Bago – Yangon
Enjoy returning to the Golden Rock. After breakfast, walk down to the truck gate and return
by truck to your car/minibus. Drive back to Bago and visit Shwemawdaw Pagoda,
Shwethalyaung Buddha, Kyaikpun Pagoda, included on the way back to Yangon at the
British War Cemetery near Htauk Kyan.
