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Private Full-Day Tour of Mandalay
1 day
Private
Full Day
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About this activity
We will depart from your hotel at 8:30am after breakfast. First, we will go to Mahamuni Buddha, a spectacular and attractive statue of Lord Buddha, completely made of Gold. As one of the most significant sites of Buddhist pilgrimage in Myanmar, it is a place of devotion and meditation. Women are not allowed to enter the innermost chamber (and consequently, to apply gold leaves on the statue).
Next, you will visit to a stone carving workshops and see a skilled craftsmen who attack pure white marble or stone with angle grinders and drills to create the most enigmatic Buddha images. From here, we will move on to the puppet workshop and wood carving. Since the gold-leaf is commonly use in Myanmar, it is fascinating to see the traditional way of gold-leaf is produced at Gold Leaf Workshop.
You will then enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant with variety of traditional food. A short free and easy time after lunch.
After a short break, we will move on to Mandalay Royal Palace followed by Golden Palace Monastery (Shwenandaw Monastery). The Monastery is small and atmospheric and was moved from the old Royal Palace grounds. It gave an idea of what the inside of the old Palace would have looked like in entirety originally and the beauty of the wood cravings from the glory period if Mandalay.
Finally, we will explore Kuthodaw Pagoda (the world’s largest book), is a lovely place to visit and really interesting for the history and cultural facts. It's a great place to walk around and soak up the sights and experience of this beautiful place. Before heading back to your hotel, you will enjoy the sun setting at the top of Mandalay Hill.
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Next, you will visit to a stone carving workshops and see a skilled craftsmen who attack pure white marble or stone with angle grinders and drills to create the most enigmatic Buddha images. From here, we will move on to the puppet workshop and wood carving. Since the gold-leaf is commonly use in Myanmar, it is fascinating to see the traditional way of gold-leaf is produced at Gold Leaf Workshop.
You will then enjoy your lunch at a local restaurant with variety of traditional food. A short free and easy time after lunch.
After a short break, we will move on to Mandalay Royal Palace followed by Golden Palace Monastery (Shwenandaw Monastery). The Monastery is small and atmospheric and was moved from the old Royal Palace grounds. It gave an idea of what the inside of the old Palace would have looked like in entirety originally and the beauty of the wood cravings from the glory period if Mandalay.
Finally, we will explore Kuthodaw Pagoda (the world’s largest book), is a lovely place to visit and really interesting for the history and cultural facts. It's a great place to walk around and soak up the sights and experience of this beautiful place. Before heading back to your hotel, you will enjoy the sun setting at the top of Mandalay Hill.
Included
- Private tour with professional guide and driver
- Fuel surcharge
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Air-conditioned vehicle
Not included
- Food and drinks
- Airport transfers
- Personal Expenses
- Travel insurance
- Airport tax
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
80%
Original
15%
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Another good tour covering a wide variety of sites. Although you start by visiting the gold, marble and wood carving shops, the remainder of stops are all worthwhile and unique places. Lots of good photo opportunities. Winny our guide did a great job.
An excellent tour that covered all the bases and even allowed extra time for places we wanted to spend time in. Informative. Friendly. On time pick up. Couldn't ask for more
Our tour guide Jimmy Sein is the BEST tour guide we have ever had! He is a human encyclopedia on Myanmar history, he made the the tour so interesting and fun. He also went above and beyond, taking us to an amazing jade shop that locals frequent. If you hire this tour you should definetly ask for him
We decided at short notice to travel from Bangkok for 7 nights in Myanmar. We booked a day trip thru Viator which was the first time we used this service and they engaged LM Travel to provide a guide and driver for the day we arrived and they did a terrific job of showing us all the highlights of Mandalay. Beyond this our guide Mr Tun and Mr Lin in the LM Travel office arranged a Day Boat to Bagan next day and a transfer to the boat jetty at 6.30 am the next morning. This was so successful in Bagan we arranged another guide and driver which again went well even after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake on the day we arrived in Bagan. LM then arranged a pick up at Yangon Airport and a 3/4 day tour for our last day and a 4am transfer to the airport for first flight out to Bangkok Very well done and definitely 5 Star https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowUserReviews-g295408-d6733166-r413071146-LM_Travel_Myanmar-Mandalay_Mandalay_Region.html
We enjoyed our guide and driver very much. They had a lot of knowledge and showed us things we would of never found on our own Thank you!