New Border Crossing Thailand to Myanmar

If you’re looking for a combination of Thailand and Myanmar tour for around 2 weeks, then our New Border Crossing Thailand to Myanmar should be your good choice. The trip covers the lively capital Bangkok and the ancient capital of Ayutthaya. In Burma, this journey will introduce you to all the magic of the south including of the hub city Yangon, the ancient capital Bago, the famous monument Golden Rock, the charming capital Hpa-an, and the first waterfront capital Mawlamyine.

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Overview

Overview

If you’re looking for a combination of Thailand and Myanmar tour for around 2 weeks, then our New Border Crossing Thailand to Myanmar should be your good choice. The trip covers the lively capital Bangkok and the ancient capital of Ayutthaya. In Burma, this journey will introduce you to all the magic of the south including of the hub city Yangon, the ancient capital Bago, the famous monument Golden Rock, the charming capital Hpa-an, and the first waterfront capital Mawlamyine. Our professional and experienced tour guides will help you to get the insights of the southern Myanmar. You can just enjoy and experience all the wonders that this magical region has to offer.

TOUR HIGHLIGHT

Enjoy the relaxed and uncrowded beach atmosphere with a sun downer in Dawei
A visit to this world’ largest pagoda in Yangon that you will be mesmerized
Visit one of Myanmar’s holiest pilgrimage sites to the Golden Rock (Kyaikthiyo), a boulder covered in gold leaf that miraculously, delicately balances at the edge of a cliff
Explore Hpa-an, the charming trading capital of Karen State blessed with beautiful topography of limestone karst mountains.
Visit Thanbuzayat the last station of the infamous death railway build by POW during the IIWW
Explore the ancient and modern beauty of the capital Bangkok
Get a deep insight into culture and local life by visiting Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
Discover the ancient capital of Ayutthaya with the historical sites
Participate in variety of the cultural activities and traditional shows

Itinerary

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Warmly welcome you on arrival at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport. We will pick you up with a comfortable vehicle to the center of Saigon to check-in your hotel, then take your time to have a rest after a long flight
Overnight in Bangkok

Today, we will take the whole day to explore Bangkok – the city of golden temples.
The first destination is the Grand Palace. This huge architecture complex is over 2 sq. kilometers, including 3 main sites: Royal Palace, Royal Office and pagodas (Wat) built in 1770s. Nowadays, the Grand Palace is no longer home of Thailand Royal, most of national significant events takes place there. Wat Phra Kaew is the most out-standing architecture in complex, built in 1785 when King Rama I moved the capital to Bangkok. Wat Pra Kwae is famous not only for its beauty of unique Thailand Buddhism architecture but also for the sacred jade Buddha statue. Thai people believe that the statue will bring back fortune and prosperity for the nation.
Nearby Grand Palace is Wat Pho - the oldest and biggest pagoda in Bangkok with more than 1000 Buddha statues and the huge one sit-back Buddha in gold. This pagoda is also famous for being a birthplace of traditional Thai massage, since there is a traditional medicine school established in 1982, educating the arts of Thai massage. The Wat Pho wall-surrounded complex was divided into 2 by Soi Chetuphon running along East – West. The Northern complex is the one including the in gold Buddha statue and massage school mentioned above. The Southern complex, Tukgawee, is a monastery and a school.
We will board on a boat to pay a visit along the Chao Phraya River, watching the life of local people close by. On route, we stop at Wat Arun, known as the most beautiful pagoda in Bangkok not only for its location on the Chao Phraya’s riverbank but also for the different architecture from other pagodas. “Arun” means sunrise, but it is most beautiful in the sunset. The pagoda was decorated with glass pieces and Chinese ceramic, in a complicated style. You can climb up to the top of Wat Arun to see Chao Phraya, Grand Palace and Wat Pho at the opposite side.
After having lunch, we visit the last destination of the day: Wat Traimit. This pagoda is famous for its unique and historic beauty, and also for the huge golden Buddha statue. Thai people believe that the statue represents for prosperity and purity, as well as strength and power. The Golden Statue was defined to be built in Sukhothai period, the 13-15th century – one of the most famous periods of Thai Buddhism architecture.
Return to the hotel and you are free to explore Bangkok by night.

Early in the morning, after having breakfast, we pay a visit to Meaklong Railway Market - a local market has grown up along the rail tracks. When a train pulls in or out of the station, the sellers quickly clear their stalls, and set them up again when the train has passed. We continue our way to Damnoen Saduak Floating market, which is specialized in trading fruits, vegetables, etc… by small boat. In the old days, floating markets were formed because roads and means of road traffic have not developed. Due to the demand for buying and selling goods, people gather in the river by means such as boats. Nowadays, despite the fact that the road network has developed everywhere, floating market still exists and develops more and more.
After having lunch, we will fall into the relax atmosphere in Rose Garden, which is a huge park built in the middle of rural scenery along the Nakhon Chaisri River. It is utterly blossomed by multitude of beautiful floral. One of the major attractions in the park is Thai Village, which offers a bunch of Thai cultural activities and shows such as Thai boxing, sword - fighting, elephant parade, harvest dance,…
We transfer to Kanchanaburi, check-in the hotel there and then you are free to relax.

Today we will transfer from your hotel in Kanchanaburi for 1 hour to the newest of all borders crossing between Thailand and Myanmar. After a smooth and quick immigration process you will be on your way to Dawei (4 hours) on roads, which didn't exist before. Lunch will be in a local restaurant along the way (own account). After arrival at Dawei transfer to your hotel. Dawei is the capital of Tanintharyi Division in the south of the Myanmar, formerly known as Tavoy under the British rule. Dawei is a sleepy tropical town with a number of beautiful beaches in the vicinity. Dawei experiences a long trade history, featuring some interesting colonial architecture, typically with numerous old wooden, thatch-roofed bungalows, some bricks and stucco mansions. Under the British rule, Dawei was known as Tavoy, which is still sometimes used to call.
In the evening we will visit Paya Gyi museum and glamorous Shwe Taung Sar Pagoda. The museum displays a collection of bronze coins, vase’s, portraits and large wooden ancient Buddha images.

Today start our city tour by a visit to colonial buildings and Shin Maw Pagoda on the Dawei promontory. Visit the gleaming Payagyi pagoda in the early morning where locals, pilgrims and monks come to make offerings, then the bustling local market and regional museum. Afterwards, drive to a secret beach, only accessible at low tide, where local fishers bring in their catches, and walk to a secluded beach that is perfect for swimming and lazing. In the afternoon drive north to San Maria bay and visit MyawYit pagoda on a rocky outcrop and then to nearby well-known Maung Ma Gan Beach, a former retreat from the British during colonial times, now enjoy the relaxed and uncrowded beach atmosphere with a sun downer, and return to your hotel after a fabulous sunset. Overnight in Dawei.

Today we will have a long drive (approx. 6-7 hours) towards to Mawlamyine. Along the way you can witness the everyday rural life of many ethnic minority Mon, Tavoyan and Mon. Passing through areas of jungle, rubber plantations, cashew nut farms, palm oil plantations, bamboo glades, coconut trees, betel nut palms, durian, snake fruit and pineapple farms, you arrive at Ye for lunch. Further down the road we will stop in Thanbyuzayet. The western terminus of the infamous Death Railway linking Thailand and Burma during the Second World War with the Bridge over River Kwai, constructed by the Japanese during WWII. This Death Railways was started in September 1942 and official opened on 25th October 1943. There is a well-kept Allied War Memorial Cemetery where 3512 stone graves of POWs (1728 British, 1162 Australian and 621 Netherlanders) who died while building the “Death Railway”, Railway Museum and Japanese built pagoda in the memory of the perished Japanese engineers and POWs. Further on towards Mawlamyine is a large 50m-high seated Buddha statue, but the main attraction is the world’s largest reclining Buddha image, Win Sein Taw Ya, 180m long. Arrive Mawlamyine around sunset. Overnight in Mawlamyine

After breakfast we explore the Southern Myanmar rural life by taking a 20 min long tail boat ride to Bilu Island, a pleasant island with 60 smaller villages that has been largely untouched by development. This island is well known for its craftspeople making everything from tobacco pipes, chalk boards, rubber bands, ropes, walking sticks and hats with local wood, bamboo, rattan, slate, vines and rubber. With a local pickup truck, we pass through rice paddy fields and beautiful villages.
In the afternoon, we return to Mawlamyine and enjoy a Trishaw Ride to visit the city. To round off the day we enjoy a sunset from the Kyaikthalan Pagoda.
Overnight in Mawlamyine

Morning we leave Mawlamyine for Hpaan. Upon arrival you are given a great chance to enjoy the most gorgeous caves in Myanmar. Firstly we pay a visit to the local busy market. Following with KawKaThaung Cave, Latkhannar Village, and the most beautiful Saddar Cave.
The great cave with 2260 feet length and many stalactites/stalagmites and the must at the end of the cave a place where daydream can grow: a natural lake at the end of the cave.
You will enter a gigantic cavern filled with Buddha Statues and pagodas, which can be explored by walking all the ways through, to the other side of the mountain. Next continue to visit Lumbini Garden, which park is home to one thousand Buddha images with the majestic Mount Zwekabin in the back. In the afternoon continue to explore the Shweyinmyaw Pagoda.
Being constructed on rocks surrounded by the streams of Than Lwin river or Salween, the temple includes a number of platforms connecting to each other by staircases and walkways, an old pagoda tree as well as some sightseeing points. The temple buildings contain huge golden stupas and the huge frog statue. Although it’s interesting, its location really is the view that makes this the town’s top tourist site.
On the way back we stop to visit the unusual Kyauk Kalap Pagoda a truly unique pagoda, set on the top of an unusual rock formation in the middle of an artificial lake.
Overnight in Hpaan

Today we depart from Hpaan to the pilgrimage site of Kyaikhtiyo, Golden Rock. Enjoy a brief stop in Thahton, former capital of the Mon Kingdom where lunch can be enjoyed at a quirky outdoor restaurant
Wen continue driver to nearby Kin Pun base Camp. From Kin Pun, a steep and rough 11km road leads to the upper staging point, a journey made in open trucks, which can be very crowded. Start your light trekking of approx. 45 minutes to the famous “Golden Rock Pagoda”. This miracle Pagoda is situated in Mon State, regarded as one of the most sacred pagodas along with Shwedagon from Yangon and Maha Muni from Mandalay. It is also believed the hair relic of the Buddha was enshrined in the huge rock which is hanging and balancing on the edge of the cliff. Enjoy and overlook the magnificence view of the surrounding area and overnight stay in Kyaikhtiyo.

After breakfast, walk 4 Km downhill where you continue in an open truck to Kin Pun, and rejoin your car and driver. Drive to Bago. Here you visit the Shwemawdaw Pagoda, Being built in the 10th century by the Mon King to enshrine two hair relics of the Buddha. with the height 114m, Shwemawdaw Pagoda is the highest pagoda in Myanmar. It is one of Burma’s most sacred sites, because it enshrines several relics of the Buddha. The annual festival of the pagoda is a 10-day event taking place in the traditional calendar of the Burmese.
Continue to the 55-metre-long reclining Shwe Thalyaung Buddha image, one of the country's most revered objects. Visit the Maha Kalayani Sima (ordination hall) and Mahazedi (Great Stupa), offering panoramic views. Lastly, continue to Yangon, with a brief stop at Kyaik Pun Pagoda, famous for its four giant Buddha figures. The pagoda has four Buddha statues leaning back on each other, so it is called Kyaik Pun. This is also the feature that attracts visitors. Statue of 27m height, bearing the four Buddha face in four directions: Kakusandha, Konagamana, Kassapa, Gautama. Previously, in the 15th century, the statue was improved by King Dhammazedi.
Upon arrival in Yangon, transfer to your hotel for overnight.

After breakfast at your hotel you have free time until the transfer to the airport for a flight back to Yangon International Airport, where you take your departure flight.

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