Cycling in Myanmar @Golden Rock & Kyaik Hto-Kyaik Htee Saung

Duration of Tour: Open
Tour runs: Year Round / On Demand
Price: Available on Request

Rates change frequently. Therefore, please contact us to get the best possible price based on your travel period and specific travel needs.

All the touring sites in this program have been thoroughly crafted by our in-country management teams and represent a line of experiences we can definitely recommend!


Day 1: Yangon-Bago-Kyaik Hto-Kyaik Hti Yo(Trekking 7 hours!)

After breakfast at your hotel, our truck loaded with the Mountain Bikes will pick you up to start the taste of our A Liitle Bit of Adventure. It takes about 4 hours to reach the Kinpun Base Camp where you start your hiking up to the Golden Rock. On the way, the Ancient Capital of Second Myanmar Dynasty, Hantharwaddy, or Bago presently named. You can do the sight-seeings at Bago on the way back.

Upon arrival, leave your bikes and equipments at the hotel, Golden Sunrise.

Start your hiking up to the summit of Golden Rock, approximately 7 hours up to the summit of Golden Rock, Paung Laung mountain measuring 1000 meters above sea-level. The distance from Kinpun Base camp to Golden Rock is just 8 miles. Thousands of pilgrims will be your fellows who are also doing trekking and hiking to the Golden Rock in order to get more merits than those going up by open truck. The views and sceneries on the way up to the top make your tiredness relieved. You may take a rest from time to time at the rest houses all the way up.

Upon arrival, check-in at  your hotel and you can visit Golden Rock from your hotel in the evening or at night.

Overnight at Golden Rock.

Day 2: Kyaik Htiyo-Kyaik Hto-Kyaik Htee Saung(Cycling for 4-5 hours + Trekking to Kaylatha Hill 2.5 hours)

Early morning, after breakfast(you may go to Golden Rock again in the early morning if you want!!), walk down to Hermit Hill to take the open truck ascending to Kinpun Base Camp where your Mountain Bikes are waiting for you to taste your Biking Adventure.

Upon arrival at Kinpun base camp, get yourself equipped with the necessities; Helmet, Gloves, Sun Glasses and so on.

Start your biking from the base camp to Kyaik Hto town approximately 25 minutes along the High way.

From the town, Kyaik Hto, turn to the rice fields to start the Unspoiled Biking Route to Kyaik Htee Saung Village. The scenes all the way to the Village relax you bit and piece and you never feel tired. Passing by the Mon Villages, you will arrive at the foot of Kaylartha Hill(The history and excavations strongly prove that on the other side of the foot of that hill lies the Thuwuuna Bhumi Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Gold!). You start your hiking up the Kaylartha Hill for the awesome views to the Mataban Sea and Bay.

After a rest on the Famed Kaylartha Hill and the Pagoda which is believed to have a Buddha’s hair enshrined, you may walk down to your bikes on the Cycling Route to go ahead to Kyaik Htee Saung Village.

Kyaik Htee Saung village is very famous for its monk who is believed to attain the last stage of Nirvana and many a pilgrim visits him daily. Besides that, it has the ancient Granite Kingdom Wall. You will arrive there around nightfall. Enjoy the photographing to your heart’s content all the way to the people, villages, and old palace wall.

Then, drive back to your hotel in Kyaik Hto.

Overnight at Golden Sunrise Hotel

Day 3: Kyaik Hto-Bago-Yangon

After breakfast,  drive to Kyaik Hto town to visit Kyaik Hto Morning market where you can see a lot of local foods, seasonal fruits and vegetables, fish and prawns. Walk around in the market and take pictures. Talk to the vendors who are very friendly and not accustomed to the visits of foreigners. Then, proceed to Bago.

On the way, stop from time to time to take the photo opportunities at some villages. Upon arrival at Bago, visit Shwe Maw Daw  pagoda, the biggest and tallest Pagoda in Southern Myanmar, Bago Central Market, Shwe Thar Lyaung(Reclining Buddha) which dates back to centuries and which has the astounding history of its recovery from the bushes, and finally before continuing to Yangon, on the way visit Kyaik Pun pagoda with four Giant Buddhas sitting in back-to-back position.

Upon arrival at Yangon, transfer to your hotel for check-in.

Overnight in Yangon

 

for more information, contact us to

info@ayudamyanmartravel.com/ayudamyanmartravel@gmail.com

Ayuda Myanmar Travel Tour Agency

Duration of Tour: Open
Tour runs: Year Round / On request
Price: Available on Request

Rates change frequently. Therefore, please contact us to get the best possible price based on your travel period and specific travel needs.

All the touring sites in this program have been thoroughly crafted by our in-country management teams and represent a line of experiences we can definitely recommend.

 

Day (1): Day-in Cycling Mawlamying-Bilu Island(Home Industry visits at the villages)-Mawlamying(est; 4 hours)
Mawlamying, known as Molmein in the British times, is the 3rd largest city in Myanmar and situated in the south of Myanmar. It is about 6 to 7 hours to go by car. To arrange the cycling tour(with Mountain Bikes!!!) , you need to drive there first and start the adventure from the city. Of course, if you want to do all the way from Yangon, it is also possible, however, there are some hindrance on the way.

After breakfast, transfer to the jetty from your hotel, just a few minutes. Then take a private boat or ferry boat approximately 45 minutes to the jetty of Bilu Island or Ogre Island(you won’t meet Ogres there!!). Once you disembark, you mount the bike and you will be meeting firstly with the old Chevrolet at the jetty that still serve for transportation.

Activities on the island during the Mountain bike cycling excursion;

(1) You can visit the very friendly villagers’ house

(2) Go up the hill to see the panoramic views including the cycling trail coming towards the hill

(3) Visit the home industries such as Rubber-band making, Cigar pipe, and so on

After excursion making a loop on the island, you will be back at the same jetty to transfer the same way back to Mawlamying.

 

Overnight at Mawlamying

 

 

Day (2): Day-in Cycling to U Na Oak(visit one of most beautiful monasteries in Myanmar)(est; 4 hours)

Today cycling tour will take you to the most beautiful(but few people know it, indeed!!!) Monastery Complex built and donated by the Colonial-Era Burmese Merchant, called U Na Oak. To reach the village, you will have to cross by the bridge over two rivers called Gyaing and Attran rivers. It is their rule effective so far today that you can’t cross the bridges by bicycle and therefore, you need to load the bikes on the accompanying Sag Wagon. Then unload after crossing the bridge for continuing the cycling tour.

You may visit Pomelo Orchards on the way to Kado Village where you will see the best Glass Mosaic decorations and Teak Wooden Buddha Images. The monastery is donated by a Myanmar Well-Known Teak Merchant, U Na Oak. We used to learn about his patriotic battle in terms of inland water transport business against the then Irrawaddy Floatilla Company in the British times.

Walk around the monastery complex, take the pictures of the amazing wood-carvings decorated on the inner walls of the monastic buildings. Sometimes, you will see the European pillar pedestals at some of the buildings.

Then, you will be transfer to the jetty where you will have a One-Hour Boat cruising along the Attran River up to the city of Mawlamying.

Overnight in Mawlamying

 

Day (3): Day-in Cycling from Pha-an to Kaw Kun Cave(best terra-cotta of Myanmar on the Cave-walls) (est; 4 hours)

Sleeping one night in Pha-an, the capital city of Kayin State, one of the ethnic majority, is worth a lot. Surrounding the city are the Natural Lime-stone Caves, Hot Springs, Pagodas & Temples, the Thanlwin(Salween River) with Natural beauty with Clear Water for a pleasant boat trip, and many more.

Cycling excursion for today, we will make along the motorway but not very busy with trucks and car. All the way, you can enjoy the beauty and nature of the countryside.

On the cycling route, you may drop in at the Kyauk Ka Lat Monastery which is surrounded by the water of the natural lake and the name of the monastery derives the Lime-stone column that is jetting out into the sky. 20 minutes Cycling from that monastery will take you to Kant Kaw Ta Htaung, one-thousand Buddhas sitting under the Kant Kaw Trees. That Buddha Complex is located just at the foot of Mt. Zwekabin, the symbol of Kayin State.

Among the outstanding places that we can visit in Pha-an and surrounding areas is the Kaw Kon Cave. Kaw Kon Cave has many Terra-cotta Tablets on the walls of the cave from the entrance to the inner part of the cave. The historians guess the donation date of the tablets is in 7th Century.

Walk into the cave, enjoy the works, efforts, and inspiration of the then people taking pictures all around. Besides the tablets, along the corridor leading to the cave’s interior part, there are many Buddha Images donated recently.

After the cave visit, leisurely paddle your bike back to Pha-an.

Overnight in Pha-an.

 

 

 

 

for more information, contact us to

info@ayudamyanmartravel.com/ayudamyanmartravel@gmail.com

Ayuda Myanmar Travel Tour Agency

 

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