LOIKAW (Home to the long Neckwomen)

INLE - LOIKAW - INLE ( 3 days / 2 nights )

Day-01. Nyaung Shwe - Loikaw ( by car ) ( about 8 hrs drive ) ( L,D )
Morning pick up from Hotel in Nyaung Shwe (or) at Hupin pier and drive to Loikaw ( 225 Km ) on the way can see some crops field, and enroute stop at Pin Laung village for lunch at local restaurant. Continue to Loikaw and arrive in late afternoon,if time permits enjoy panoramic and sunset view from hill of Taungkwe Zeti, famous land mark of the area. Dinner at outside local restaurant. Overnight at Minmahaw guest house.

Day-02. Loikaw & surrounding ( B,L,D )
After breakfast, visit in local market at Loikaw; capital of Kayah State and still remain as an untouched attraction where you can observe traditional ways of life of Kayah national races and the area's landmark like Ngwe Daung Dam and extension to nearby villages like Sunboon Padaung village, Htay Thama Dawsawbi Kayah village, and some more villages depending on situation to see most unusual Kayah tribes ladies wearing brass rings around their extra ordinary long neck, Kayah traditional weaving industry and wonderful ritual flagstaffs of Nat (spirit) worshipers and visit Kayah state museum. Lunch & dinner at outside local restaurant. Overnight at Minmahaw guest house.

Day-03. Loikaw - Phekhone ( by car ) ( about 1:30 hr drive ), Inle Lake ( by boat ) about ( 1:30 hr ) ( B,L )
After breakfast, visit to local market ,and Pohperyone teaching monastery where about 500 monks are studying.
Then drive to Phekhone town and proceed by boat through Phekhone lake encompassed by breathtaking and refreshing landscape along the Bilu Creek. on the way visit Tha Khaung relic pagoda, other ancient religious monuments and ways of life of Shan, Pa O and Intha national races in Sagar village.
Lunch box. After that proceed to Lotus weaving at Kyaingkham village, and proceed to Inle.

Tour cost per pax net in USD ( validity : Up To 31 Mar' 2011 )

Service includes
- Full-board - 3 Lunch & 2 Dinner at local restaurant
- Accommodations with breakfast (Twin sharing basis)
- Transfer & sightseeing ( with private A/C car or coach )
- Entrance fees,
- Boat fees
- Permission
- English speaking throughout guide fees.

Note:

• The best time to travel the area is (from Oct' to March), and if want to travel in other season will be possible by car for both way instead of by boat.

• The condition to allow to visit more tribe villages in further distance may vary time by time depending on the regulations from the authorities and sometimes it may not be allowed. In such case, the clients can see in town Loikaw and local market for some few numbers of Padaung tribes and Palaung tribe.