Yangon Excursion to Bago – 1 Day

Today you Yangon trip starts at the hotel in Yangon, after 2-hour drive, arrive in Bago (84 km from Yangon). Bago’s sightseeing starts with the charming and characteristic monastery of Kya Khet Waii, an eminent teaching center for hundreds of monks from neighboring regions to study Buddhism. You will have ample time to observe when the monks walk mindfully in procession for their last meal of the day.

The tour continues to the over a thousand years old Mon-style Shwemawdaw Pagoda with its spire taller than the Shwedagon Pagoda and can be seen from around 10 kilometers. After lunch at a simple local restaurant, you will continue sightseeing with the 55-meter long reclining Shwe Tha Lyaung Buddha, which is among one of the country’s most impressive image and the four giant Buddha images at Kyaik Pun Pagoda. After visiting a ‘Mon’ weaving and handicraft village producing woven bamboo wares return to Yangon with visits to an Allied War Cemetery near Htauk Kyan and a “Nat” tree shrine on the way back. The trip ends at your hotel in Yangon.