18 Days Myanmar Cambodia Tour with Beach Relaxing
Embark on a trip from Yangon city to the enchanting Koh Rong Island, immersing in the highlights of Myanmar and Cambodia. Especially, you’ll dive into the leisurely days for beach relaxing. Brilliant footprints left in your travel book with knowledgeable travel guides and drivers!
Day 1-2 Myanmar: Yangon city exploration with circular train journey (2 nights)
Day 3-5 Myanmar: Inle Lake trip with Pindaya cave visit (3 nights)
Day 6-7 Myanmar: Bagan hot air balloon ride with Mt. Popa exploration (2 nights)
Day 8-9 Myanmar: Mandalay city discovery to visit pagodas (2 nights)
Day 10-12 Cambodia: Siem Reap city tour with amazing Angkor Wat (3 nights)
Day 13-14 Cambodia: Phnom Penh capital city exploration (2 nights)
Day 15-18 Cambodia: Koh Rong Island free day for beach relaxing (3 days)
FULL ITINERARY
Day 1 Yangon Arrival
Welcome to Yangon!
Our tour guide and driver will welcome you at the airport upon arrival. You will be escorted to the hotel and check-in. The rest of the day is at your leisure for recovery.
Note: If your arrival time is early, and you prefer to explore the city instead of taking a nap, please kindly tell our travel consultant, and we’ll recommend one of our suggested activities like enjoying a food tour at night or having a half-day bike tour, or city walking tour.
Accommodation: Overnight in Yangon Meals: NA
Day 2 Yangon City Exploration (B, L)
After morning breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up at 8:30 am to Yangon Railway Station. Taking the local circular train journey to the outskirts of town (20-30 minutes ride).
1. Circular train journey: observing the lively and colorful life of the rural Burmese people.
2. Kyi Myin Daing Market: a variety of street vendors sell colorful wares, where you can explore the market and meet friendly locals.
Go back to the downtown area of Yangon to enjoy Myanmar cuisine. You’ll continue your tour in the afternoon. You’ll explore:
1. Old City Hall: a well-balanced blend of Western and Burmese architectural styles, listed on the Yangon City Heritage List.
2. Botahtaung Pagoda: features golden decorations inside and houses a sacred hair of Gautama Buddha.
3. Bogyoke Market: sells many Burmese traditional handicrafts including stone, wood, bronze carvings, and much more.
4. Kandawgyi Park: famous Karaweik, a concrete replica of a Burmese royal barge built in 1972, near Chaukhtetgyi Reclining Buddha Image.
5. Shwedagon Pagoda: an important Buddist icon, which has been described as one of the wonders of the world, plays a very important role in old Burmese history.
Enjoy the sunset over the Shwedagon pagoda, and then you’ll get back to the hotel for a good rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Yangon Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3 Yangon – Inle Lake (B)
After enjoying breakfast at the hotel, your tour guide will escort you to Yangon airport and take a flight to Heho Airport, which will take 1 hour. Your tour guide and driver will meet you at the airport and head to the hotel in Inle Lake. Inle Lake is the second-largest lake in Myanmar.
The rest of the time is on your arrangement. You could visit Phaungdawoo Pagoda and Paya, Inthein Village, and Yan Aung Nan Aung Hsu Taung Pye Paya.
Accommodation: Overnight in Inle Lake Meals: Breakfast
Day 4 Inle Lake Tour (B, L)
In the morning, after breakfast, you’ll start the Inle Lake full-day tour. Firstly, go to visit the lake’s morning market. This market is visited by lake inhabitants and surrounding hill tribes to sell and trade wares.
Then you’ll continue down a small canal leading to Indein in the middle of the lake, populated by ethnic Padaung (“long neck women”).
Walking through a covered alley lined on both sides with a thousand pagodas and a long-covered staircase, you’ll have a chance to discover the magnificent complex of Alaung Sithu in beautiful scenery of ancient stupas, which are buried in vegetation with a panoramic view of the Inle Lake.
After enjoying a local Burma lunch, you’ll continue to visit Khaung Daing Village in the afternoon. Khaung Daing Villiage is a native village near the northwestern of Inle Lake. There are some Shan-style temples to visit.
When the tour ends, you’ll be escorted to the hotel in Inle Lake. The rest of the day is at leisure.
Accommodation: Overnight in Inle Lake Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 5 Inle Lake – Pindaya (B, L)
After breakfast, your private tour guide and driver will meet you at the lobby of the hotel and escort you to Pindaya, around 1.5 hours.
Pindaya is well-known for its big cave with lots of statues of Buddha, which is on a limestone hill. There are three caves on the hill, but only one is for visitors.
1. Pindaya Cave: 150 meters long and filled with thousands of Buddha images, in all different shapes, and sizes, and made from different materials.
2. Boutaloke Lake: a picturesque spot to relax.
3. Local Handicraft Workshop: making traditional Shan paper and umbrellas.
After the tour, you’ll be escorted to the hotel for the rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Inle Lake Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 6 Inle Lake to Bagan (B)
In the morning, after breakfast, your tour guide will escort you to Bagan, enjoying the scenery on the way. The whole drive takes around 7 hours.
In the late afternoon, you’ll arrive at Bagan and then enjoy a fun horse cart ride to a little village called Taung Phi for a view of a teak monastery. Keep riding in the horse cart around temples and winding roads, while the sun moves toward the horizon, making interesting shadows from the temples on the ground. You’ll visit Shesandaw Pagoda and watch one of the best sunsets in Southeast Asia.
Accommodation: Overnight in Bagan Meals: Breakfast
Day 7 Hot Balloon Ride & Mount Popa (B)
Today, you need to get up early at 5:00 am to experience a beautiful hot air balloon flight over Bagan’s temples.
Drifting over a panorama of a thousand ancient pagodas, silent in the shadow of low-slung mountains and against the banks of the mighty Irrawaddy River, you will have a wonderful overhead perspective of Bagan. It’s a fantastic and interactive experience.
The entire experience will last about 2.5 hours. On landing, our fully trained Myanmar ground crew will pack the balloon whilst passengers enjoy a glass or two of celebratory champagne. You’ll receive a flight certificate signed by the pilot.
After enjoying a delicious breakfast, you have free time on your own until your tour guide picks you up at 1:00 pm-1:30 pm to Mount Popa.
1. Mount Popa: a dormant volcano in central Myanmar and the highest point of the Pegu Range.
1. Popa Taung kalat Monastery: a special monastery high up on a big rocky hill, offering beautiful views of the fields nearby and Mount Popa.
1. Nat Shrine: mannequin-like figures representing the 37 Nats, which is dedicated to animist spirits.
Note: You need to climb 777 steps to get to Popa Taungkalat Monastery. If you don’t want to do that, you can choose to visit the sandalwood forest and medical herb garden with plenty of flora and fauna.
After touring Mount Popa, a stop will be made at a palm tree plantation on the way back to the hotel in Bagan. Villagers earn money from these palm trees. It’s a nice break where you can watch them work with palm trees.
Accommodation: Overnight in Bagan Meals: Breakfast
Day 8 Bagan - Mandalay (B)
In the morning, after breakfast, your tour guide will escort you to start a half-day Bagan tour. You’ll visit:
1. Thousands of Buddhist pagodas: over 4000 Buddhist temples and Pagodas sprinkled all across the town.
2. Nyaung Oo Market: locals buy and sell products.
3. Shwezigon Pagoda: the largest pagoda in Bagan painted with real gold.
After enjoying lunch, you’ll be transferred by private van to Mandalay. The total distance is 112 miles and will take about 3 hours. Upon arrival, you will be escorted to your hotel for check-in.
Welcome to Mandalay! Upon your arrival in Mandalay, your local guide will meet you at the airport and escort you to the hotel for the rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Mandalay Meals: Breakfast
Day 9 Mandalay City Exploration (B, L)
After enjoying your breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Mandalay at 7:30 am-8:00 am. You’ll take a drive to Mingun, located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. From here, you will explore the historic sites around Mandalay. In Mingun, you’ll visit:
1. Mingun Bell: the world’s largest uncracked bell.
2. Pathodawgyi Pagoda: the world’s largest pile of bricks.
3. Myatheindan Pagoda: It’s white and looks like the mythical Buddhist Mountain called Mount Meru.
You’ll then continue to Sagaing, the ancient capital of the Shan and Myanmar Kingdoms. Uncountable white-and-gold stupas are highlights of Sagaing. Sagaing Hill is widely regarded as the religious center of Myanmar. You’ll visit Soon Oo Pon Nya Shin Pagoda on the tranquil Sagaing Hill.
Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in Sagaing. Crossing a bridge over the Irrawaddy River, you’ll take a horse cart to explore the ruins of the old royal capital.
1. 27m tall leaning tower.
2. Maha Aungmye Bonzan Monastery: built of brick in traditional style with elaborated stucco ornamentations that look like carvings.
3. Bargaya Monastery: a splendid teak wood monastery with wood carving.
Your last destination today is the Amarapura, the royal capital of Myanmar twice. In Amarapura, you’ll visit:
1. Mahargandaryon Monastery: the largest teaching monastery in Myanmar.
2. U Bein Bridge: exploring the local way of life and enjoying the sunset.
3. Weaving Workshop: Weaving is the main business of Amarapura people.
After the tour, you will be escorted to the hotel, enjoy your free time, and have a good rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Mandalay Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 10 Mandalay – Siem Reap (B, D)
After breakfast, enjoy your time and wait for our tour guide to pick you up to Mandalay International Airport, taking a flight to Siem Reap, about 5 hours and 50 minutes.
Welcome to Siem Reap! Upon arrival, our tour guide will meet you at the airport and escort you back to the downtown city.
After that, check-in at your hotel, and you will have free time for a nap or leisure time.
In the evening about 6:10 pm, your tour guide will pick you up to enjoy the welcome dinner with a sumptuous buffet dinner while enjoying the Khmer traditional dance performance.
After that, you will be escorted to the hotel and have a good rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 11 Siem Reap – Angkor Temple Discovery (B, L)
Today, after breakfast, your guide will pick you up at about 9:00am, heading to the spot for the countryside jeep tour.
Hop aboard an open-air Jeep and explore the countryside around Siem Reap. Drive along dirt trails and country lanes, stop in remote rural villages, and admire views over the rice paddies. Along the way, learn about Cambodian life as you meet the locals, sample bamboo rice cakes, and watch demonstrations of traditional handicrafts such as basket weaving.
The jeep tour is about 1.5 hours, and then you will pay a visit to a Cambodian local family and see what their daily life is like. Then enjoy a local lunch with them.
Take a half day excursion to the biggest Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake – Tonle Sap Lake. Firstly, tour Kompong Phluk, the largest village on the lake, to discover the fascinating daily lifestyle of the local people who live on the water.
Then, take a boat trip to enjoy the beautiful lake views and mangrove forests.
One of the highlights is to enjoy the beautiful sunset of Tonle Sap Lake, with a beer and the tranquil and serene atmosphere.
Then, back to the Siem Reap downtown, and you will be escorted to the night market and Pub Street, where you will have a nice evening to spend.
After the tour, back your hotel for a good rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 12 Siem Reap City – Local Village Exploration (B, L)
Today, after breakfast, your guide will pick you up at about 9:00am, heading to the spot for the countryside jeep tour.
Hop aboard an open-air Jeep and explore the countryside around Siem Reap. Drive along dirt trails and country lanes, stop in remote rural villages, and admire views over the rice paddies. Along the way, learn about Cambodian life as you meet the locals, sample bamboo rice cakes, and watch demonstrations of traditional handicrafts such as basket weaving.
The jeep tour is about 1.5 hours, and then you will pay a visit to a Cambodian local family and see what their daily life is like. Then enjoy a local lunch with them.
Take a half day excursion to the biggest Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake – Tonle Sap Lake. Firstly, tour Kompong Phluk, the largest village on the lake, to discover the fascinating daily lifestyle of the local people who live on the water.
Then, take a boat trip to enjoy the beautiful lake views and mangrove forests.
One of the highlights is to enjoy the beautiful sunset of Tonle Sap Lake, with a beer and the tranquil and serene atmosphere.
Then, back to the Siem Reap downtown, and you will be escorted to the night market and Pub Street, where you will have a nice evening to spend.
After the tour, back your hotel for a good rest.
Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 13 Drive from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh (B)
In the morning, after breakfast, enjoy your free time until your tour guide pick you up and check out.
This morning you’ll travel through the Cambodian countryside with your tour guide to Phnom Penh. The journey will take about 6 hours driving.
On the way, you will stop at Kompong Thom to visit Sambor Prei Kuk temple, the main temple of the pre-Angkorian archaeological site built in the 7th century, older than those of Angkor Wat.
Then enjoy a local lunch before continuing to Phnom Penh, stopping en route at Skuon market, the adventurous can try the ‘ch’ngain’ (deep-fried Tarantula), a local specialty.
Upon arrival for hotel check-in and the rest of the day is free at your own leisure.
Accommodation: Overnight in Phnom Penh Meals: Breakfast
Day 14 Phnom Penh City Discovery (B, L)
Enjoy your breakfast and our tour guide will pick you up to start exploring Phnom Penh, Cambodian’s capital city.
In the morning, you will enjoy the following activities:
1. Take a Tuk-tuk ride to visit the Silver Pagoda which is decorated with about 5000 silver tiles on the floor and the Royal Palace where the Khmer royal family lives.
2. Prison and Killing Field/Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide.
3. National Museum: home to the world’s finest collection of Khmer sculpture: a millennium’s worth and more of masterful Khmer design.
After the tour, enjoy the lunch at a local restaurant and have a short break.
In the afternoon, we will head to the Mekong Island of Phnom Penh, where you will enjoy a cycle touring around the countryside of Phnom Penh, discovering the small villages, local schools, silk-weaving houses and the beautiful rural landscapes.
Then, you will enjoy the sunset cruise with unlimited beer & soft drinks, exploring the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Four Faces Rivers, as well as Diamond Island and the local fishing village. Gain an authentic experience by observing the housing and lifestyle of the locals who live along the riverbank.
After the tour, you will be escorted to explore the local night market of Phnom Penh. Then, back to hotel and have a good rest tonight.
Accommodation: Overnight in Phnom Penh Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 15 Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, Head to Koh Rong Island (B)
After breakfast, around 8:00 am, your guide will pick you up for a 3-hour drive to Sihanoukville.
Upon arrival at Sihanoukville, transfer directly to the boat pier for boarding, about 1 hour to Koh Rong.
Upon arrival, you will be escorted to the resort by the staff, and start your relaxing tour in the island paradise.
Accommodation: Overnight in Koh Rong Island Meals: Breakfast
Day 16 Koh Rong Island Free Day (B)
Today is on your own arrangement, enjoy your beach relaxing in Koh Rong Island.
Note: You can check more information for any extra excursions at your resort, or contact our sales consultants for the suggestions.
Accommodation: Overnight in Koh Rong Island Meals: Breakfast
Day 17 Koh Rong Island Free Day (B)
Today is on your own arrangement, enjoy your beach relaxing in Koh Rong Island.
Note: You can check more information for any extra excursions at your resort, or contact our sales consultants for the suggestions.
Accommodation: Overnight in Koh Rong Island Meals: Breakfast
Day 18 Sihanoukville Departure (B)
Enjoy your breakfast and free time of the morning until be picked up to the board pier for one hour boat back to Sihanoukville, then directly head to the airport of Sihanoukville.
Tour service ends here.
Hope you enjoyed a great trip with us and we look forward to seeing you next time.
Note: If you’re planning to continue exploring Indochina region, like Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, please never hesitate to tell us, we’re tour experts for all of these destinations.
Accommodation: NA Meals: Breakfast
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18 Days Myanmar Cambodia Tour with Beach Relaxing
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