Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival

Arrive at Yangon International Airport. Welcome by our tour guide. Transfer to Hotel. Yangon sightseeing tour includes the old colonial style city center with the gilded Sule Pagoda, dating back over 2,000 years. The tour continue to Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda, a huge reclining Buddha image, extended visit to Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the world’s most spectacular religious monuments and the golden dome of Shwedagon Pagoda rises 98meters above its base and is covered with 60 tons of pure gold., will conclude the tour of this picturesque garden city. Dine and overnight in Yangon.

After breakfast, flight to Heho by morning flight. Transfer to Naung Shwe, the jetty of Inlay Lake and sightseeing Phaungdaw Oo Pagoda, wonderful floating gardens, floating market natives method of fishing and village life on the lake. Visit cottage industry of silk weaving on wooden hand looms where you can purchase Shan shoulder bags, cloth and longyi. On the way back drop in to at the jumping cats monastery. Overnight at Hotel in Inlay.

After breakfast, take a boat to observe the procession ceremony of four of the five Buddha Images of Phaung dawoo Pagoda. Each year in the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival time our of five Buddha images houses in Pagoda, the four images leave the Pagoda Shrine to make a procession trip lasting for eighteen days. Images are carried on the ‘Karaweik Royal Barge’ with an opening ceremony. The images stop at the villages in the Inlay Lake for one or two days for homage by the people. On each and every stop held grand ceremony and boat racing. The four Buddha images will arrive Nyaung Shwe from Lin Kin where they overnight. At 10:00 am to 11:00 am is the traditional boat racing in the Inlay Lake. The four Buddha image would be in Nyaung Shwe for three nights. During that days, the people from surrounding villages come to pay homage to Buddha images. Watching the boat competition. Stay overnight at hotel in Inlay.

After breakfast, transfer to airport for fly back to Yangon. After lunch at a local restaurant in Yangon, transfer to Yangon International Airport for your onward departure.