Yangon – Bago and the Moyingyi Wetland Resort – Yangon
Your guide and your driver pick up you at your hotel in Yangon and transfer to Bago, stop at the statues at Kyaikpun Pagoda. In Bago, enjoy sightseeing including:
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Shwethalyaung Reclining Buddha (55 metres long),
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Shwemawdaw Pagoda,
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Myo Ma Local Market,
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28 meter high huge Buddha Image of Kyaikpun Pagoda,
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Chinese Kwanyin Temple
And upon your interest, you can visit:
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Kanbawzathardi Palace of King Bayinnaun (54 meters long),
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Kyatkatwine Teaching Monastery (one of the largest monasteries in Myanmar, thousands of monks receive their education at Kyatkatwine)
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Shwemawdaw Pagoda (the pagoda can be seen from as far as 10 km outside the city).
Then take the road for the Wildlife Sanctuary for Bird Watching. It is an enormous riverine wetland transformed into 40 square miles in area of water storage reservoir in 1878 and notified as Wildlife Sanctuary in 1988. It is an important area for both resident and migratory water-birds. Census count at Moyingyi reveals some 70 species of migratory water-birds. Departure in a motorized pirogue with a guide and discover the birds of all sizes that populate the tall grasses and shores of water bodies covered with lotus flowers and water plants together an exceptional biodiversity and a rare symphony of color
. Drive back to Yangon.
Included meals: lunch