Bagan
Country Side Tour - Full Day Excursion

Itinerary

• Full day to explore the countryside around Bagan.
• Drive out of Bagan to visit Mount Popa, home to Myanmar's intriguing 'nats' (spirits). The 777 steps and path climb steeply up Mount Popa – an energetic climb rewarded by fabulous views from the top.
• Continue to drive to Kyaukpadaung and visit the local market.
• Lunch at a simple local restaurant (or) a packed lunch.
• In the afternoon, drive to Salay.
• Visit Yokesone Monastery, which is the oldest surviving wooden monastery hall, built on 154 teak posts with beautiful wood carvings decorating the outer walls.
• Continue to Payathonzu, a complex of three brick shrines with mural paintings from the Bagan period, and see Man Paya - a large lacquer Buddha image, said to date from the 13th century.
• Return to Bagan through Chauk, where you will see old Burma Oil installations ('nodding donkeys'), and along the banks of the Ayeyarwady River.

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