20 Days Yunnan (China)-Myanmar Overland Tour from Kunming to Yangon
Tour Overview
This Yunnan and Burma Old Road Tour will take you to visit Kunming,Shangri-La, Dali,Lijiang first, and then drive to the western Yunnan-Burma border and visit Tengchong, Mangshi, Ruili. You...
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This Yunnan and Burma Old Road Tour will take you to visit Kunming,Shangri-La, Dali,Lijiang first, and then drive to the western Yunnan-Burma border and visit Tengchong, Mangshi, Ruili. You will enter Myanmar from Ruili Border Gate.In myanmar, you will meet your tour guide and driver for your trip to Mandalay and Yangon. You will have a beautiful cruise tour in Irawady River. The Yunnan-Burma Road is a road linking Burma (also called Myanmar) with China. Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio, Burma. The road is 1,154 km long and runs through rough mountain terrian. The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built with no machine, only with hand tools by 200,000 Chinese laborers(women, children and old men, as young men all went to war) during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938.
Day by Day Itinerary
- Day 1 Arrive in Kunming
- Day 2 Kunming-Stone Forest-Kunming
- Day 3 Shangri La
Visit the Ganden Sumtseling Monastery, the largest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan. Songzanlin Monastery has another alias – ‘the little Potala Palace ‘, so named because the whole monastery is in the traditional style with mysterious atmosphere.
- Day 4 Shangri-la–Tiger Leaping Gorge-Lijiang
- Day 5 Lijiang
- Day 6 Lijiang-Dali by Private Car
- Day 7 Dali
- Day 8 Dali-Tengchong
- Day 9 Tengchong-Ruili
- Day 10 RUILI – MUSE BORDER CROSSING – LASHIO
- Day 11 LASHIO – HSIPAW (140 KM 4 HOURS)
- Day 12 HSIPAW – GOKTEIK BRIDGE – PYIN OO LWIN
- Day 13 PYIN OO LWIN – MANDALAY
- Day 14 Mandalay
- Day 15 MANDALAY – BAGAN BY BOAT
- Day 16 BAGAN
- Day 17 Flight to Heho, Inle Lake
- Day 18 Full Day Inle Lake Excursion
Rest of the day is at leisure to relax.
Day 19 Inle Lake-Yongon by Flight
In the morning, you will fly from Heho to Yangon, meet your local guide and start Yangon city tour.
Our guide will take you to Sule Pagoda, located in the heart of Yangon City. It is surrounded by a group of impressive statues, the most notable ones being the sculptures of eight zodiacs. You can find your own zodiac sign according to the date of your birth and take pictures with it. Then we proceed to Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda, where you can view a giant reclining Buddha with 108 totems carved on his soles, each representing a different image in the six reincarnations.
Service Included:
- Admission fees for all of the sightseeing spots listed in the itinerary;
- Meals as listed in the itinerary;
- Hotels as listed in the itinerary;
- Private English-speaking tour guide;
- Private vehicle for transfers & sightseeing with skilled driver;
- Service charge & government taxes;
- Luggage transfers between airports and hotels;
- Service charge and all government taxes;
- Travel Agency’s Responsibility Insurance coverage.
Service Excluded:
- Any arrival and departure international airfares or train tickets;
- Chinese visa fees;
- Excess baggage charged by Airlines;
- Single room supplement;
- Tips to guides and drivers;
- Personal expenses and gratuities to service staff;
- Personal travel accident insurance;
- All optional programs.