A Modular tour Cambodia and Burma with Alex Veit
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Cambodia: “ Roots Of The Khmer Empire” and Myanmar (Burma):
8-23 January 2009
8.01: Tel-Aviv-Bangkok: Fly non-stop to Bangkok.
9.01: Bangkok-Siem Reap: Land in Bangkok. Onward flight to Seam Reap.
Transfer and over night: First Class hotel to be announced. (3 nights)
9-12.01 : Siem Reap: Tour of Angkor Thom Temples, Bayon, Phimeanakas, Terrace of the Elephants, Terrace of Leper
King, the Temple of Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei, Ta Prohm and much more
12.01: Burma: Transfer to airport for flight to Bangkok and onward flight with Thai Air to Rangoon (Yangoon). Overnight: High standard First Class hotel.
M y a n m a r: B u r m a Land of a Thousand Pagodas - With out Cambodia:
11-23 January 2009
11.01: Tel-Aviv-Bangkok: Fly non-stop to Bangkok.
12.01: Bangkok-Rangoon: Meet group from Cambodia and onward flight with Thai Air to Rangoon (Yangoon).
Overnight: High standard First Class hotel.
13- 16.01: Land of the Shan: Flight to Heho, we will explore the Land of the Shan and the Inle Lake district, 850 meters above sea level. Visit the local 5-day rotating market, according to the days they are open in the region. We shall see the
village of Ywama and the cultivating of crops on floating islands. We shall also go by boat to the unspoiled southern villages, where the culture and traditional life-style of the ethnic groups of Pao and Inthas and their villages still survives.
Overnights: 3 nights: Inle Lake: Traditional huts on stilts, on the lake.
16.01: Fly to Mandalay.
16-18.01: Mandalay: Mandalay was the last capitol of Burma before the British took over. Visit Shwenandaw Kyaung (Golden Palace Monastery) a fine example of a former teak wood
palace. Visit the famous gold leaf makers, where sheets of gold are beaten into gossamer-thin pieces, which devotes use to gild the images and stupas. View the city from Mandalay Hill. Drive to Amarapura 11 km from Mandalay, visit the Mahagandayon monastery where 1300 Buddhist monks reside. Continue to U-Bein's Bridge, has stood for two centuries and remains the longest teak wood span in the world.
Overnight in Mandalay: Very good First Class hotel. (2 nights)
18.01:Fly to Bagan ( Pagan). Pagan is the most amazing sight in Burma, if not South-East Asia. Across 40 sq km of country, stand literally thousands of stupas and temples. A ' Garden of Eden' for lovers of archaeologically and history. We will explore and
wonder through archaeological zone
Overnight: Very good Tourist Class garden hotel. (1 night)
19.01: Salay-Mt Popa and more. Drive to Continue to Salay to visit the unique Temple Museum, Continue east to Mt Popa an extinguished Volcano , and visit the "Nat" temple at its foot.
Overnight: A very good Tourist Class garden hotel. (1 night)
20.01: A Visit to a very special remote village, there we shall experience and a special event. We shall not disclose the location of this village as we want to keep it untouched by mass tourism! Return to Pagan and continue touring.
Overnight: A very good Tourist Class garden hotel. (1 night)
21.01 Continue to explore Pagan. Fly back to Rangoon.
Overnight: High standard First Class hotel. ( 1 night)
22.01: Rangoon: Sight seeing in the capitol Yangoon. Visit the Sule Paya (Pagoda) and Shwedagon Paya Kipling called it a 'golden mystery...a beautiful winking wonder'. Shwedagon is the most sacred of all Buddhist sites in the country. We shall also visit the Moseah Yeshua Synagogue, founded over 100 years ago and the near by
cemetery dating back to 1856. Evening flight to Bangkok. Onward flight, non stop to Tel-Aviv.
23.01: Morning arrival at Ben Gurion Airport .
Please note: The order of the daily program might change according to the internal flights. Also you must note that changes might be made to the program, as traveling in South East Asia not the same as traveling at home. The level of service is some what lower than we are used to and a lot of patience is called for.
Prices Per person in double room is all-inclusive:
Cambodia & Burma Tour (13 nights- 16 days) : for a group over 20 pax:
$4050
(as of 24.12.08)
Single supplement:
$460
Small Group 16-19 pax additional cost of $200
Burma Tour only (10 nights-13 days ) : for a group over 20 pax:
$3050
(as of 24.12.08)
Single supplement: $330
Small Group 16-19 pax additional cost of $200
Tour includes:
- All tipping to guides, drivers, & hotel staff abroad: $5 per day according to number of days in each section of the trip. - All visas according to program: Cambodia $20 , Burma $25 .
- Flight to and from Tel-Aviv- Bangkok
- All international and domestic flights as mentioned in the program incl. 20 Kg baggage.
- All airport and security taxes as of : 24.12.08 - All hotels and standards as mentioned in the program.
- Breakfast and Dinner daily according to number of over nights of each section of the tour..
- Air-conditioned coach transportation as per itinerary. - All entrance fees as mentioned in the itinerary.
- Escort Alex Veit אלכס פייט , who will be *escorting the tour, [not guiding] in Hebrew and English.
- Guiding by specially chosen local guides who guide in English. * Please note: Tour is planned to cater both Israeli and English speaking clientele. Tours are guided in English, by specially chosen local guides - Alex does not translate what is said in to Hebrew. How ever Alex will be bilingual, when it comes to his explanations which deal mainly with
administrative aspects of the tour.
Please check with your local health authority, what types of vaccinations are required such as:
against malaria, Hepatitis B and A and any other requirements.
For photos of past tours please press below:
Burma 2005
Burma November 2005
Burma 2007
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