
Burma / Myanmar the golden land
Myanmar Photo Tour
Myanmar Photo Tour
Day 1 – Yangon-Arrival
Arrival Yangon International Airport welcomes by our experienced guide with your name
Transfer to hotel & check-in. Orientation About culture and customs go out for Dinner at Padonamar Myanmar Traditional food.
Free evening at the market to get the feel of the city.
Overnight at Yangon (Dinner at the restaurant)
Day 2 – Yangon
Breakfast at the hotel. Visit Chaukhtetgyi reclining Buddha the biggest one of Yangon. We’ll also photograph the monasteries around Chaukhtetgyi and do photo shoots with monks. Proceed to Shwedagon Pagoda: 2500 years old great Shwedagon Pagoda with over 90 tons of gold. We can photograph people praying, offering water to Buddha’s, offering candles and incense and Sunset at Shwedagon Pagoda
Overnight at Yangon (Lunch and Dinner at restaurant)
Day 3 – Yangon– Bagan ( By Flight)
Day 4 – Bagan -Photography
Day 5 – Bagan – Mandalay – Amarapura (By Flight/ By Car)(B/L/D)
Day 6 – Mandalay – Mingun – Mandalay(By Car/ By Boat)(B/L/D)
Breakfast: 04:30 am, leave Early morning 05:00 am boat ride to Mingun. Photograph the Sin Phyu Me pagoda with nuns and monks with umbrellas, praying villagers at the top of the pagoda, proceed to Unfinished Pagoda Pathidawgyi with the big crack on the wall, photograph the village life, back to the Mandalay. Lunch at Myanmar traditional restaurant. Visit puppet factory and traditional art-making families and workshop, photograph the Buddha making family, carving, painting. Proceed to the Ayeyarwaddy river front to photograph the life by the river, people weaving bamboo, bamboo traders, and photograph the fishermen throwing the net by sunset. Dinner at the restaurant. Back to the Hotel. Over night at Hotel. ( B, L,D )
Day 7 – Mandalay – Heho – Inle (By Flight/ By Car/ By Boat)(B/L/D)
Day 8 – Inle – Indein – Inle(By Boat)(B/L/D)
Early morning sunrise photo shoot by fishermen fishing. We’ll photograph the fishermen with conical nets , stick nets fishing by sunrise. Back to the hotel for breakfast . After breakfast , we’ll take a boat ride to a local market. Then , proceed to a special archeological site , Inndein. We’ll photograph the 1000 ruins over Inndein. Lunch at local restaurant. We’ll also visit Phaungdaw Oo pagoda from 11 th century. We’ll also photograph the floating gardens, floating villages, Long neck family ( Padaung family) and their weaving house. Back to Inle lake. Sunset on the way to the Hotel. Back to the hotel. Dinner at Hotel.( B, L,D )
Day 9 – Inle – Heho – Yangon(By Flight/ By Car)(B/L/D)
Early morning sunrise photoshoot and sunrise by a village and back to the hotel for breakfast, Early morning boat ride to Nyaungshwe. Drive to Heho for the flight back to Yangon. Arrive Yangon. We might have a chance to stop at the local souvenir shop. Check-in Hotel. Lunch at Green Elephant Myanmar restaurant. Afternoon Old Rangoon, old buildings, street photography. Proceed to Sin Oo Dan Jetty to photograph the small boats leaving Yangon by sunset from the jetty with seagulls and boats by Yangon River. Dinner at the restaurant .Over night at Hotel. ( B, L, D )
Day 10 – Yangon –Departure
After breakfast, prepare for the departure flight. Transfer to Yangon International Airport. Say goodbye to the Win Kyaw Zan and Myanmar. ( B ) End of our Myanmar Photo Tour.
Dates:
November / December / January /March
Duration:
10 days/9 nights
Photographic themes:
landscape, Villages, mountains, culture, people, wildlife
Places:
Yangon,
Began,
Mandalay,
Mingun,
Amarapura,
Heho,
Inle lake
included:
Not included:
Getting there:
You will organize your own travel to and from Yangon
Join me on the Myanmar Photo tour
Tim has devoted his life to photography. Photography has been his long-held hobby and great passion. Tim has always felt drawn to the power and beauty he finds in nature. Tim has been leading photo tours and workshops in Iceland and many different countries over the years. He has had the world as his workplace. He is Photographing everything from the dramatic landscape in Iceland, to the native people in the remote corners of the world and the culture that is unique to each country.
His journeys have taken him around the world in pursuit of memorable travel experiences and the creation of compelling images. His work has been featured in international publications. His images and stories are shared on various internet outlets. As a driven artist, professional, entrepreneur, and adventurer, Tim is eager to share his passion, knowledge in photography, and travel through the tours he designed on his own, or through his partnership with professional photographers from around the globe. Tim and his family lived 11 years in Iceland. Now they are based in the Czech Republic.