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Raiders of the Lost City
Looking for a place to wear your Indiana Jones hat without getting snickered at? The lost city of Mrauk U is just waiting to unleash your inner “Indy”.
Mrauk U is the stuff of legend. It was virtually unknown outside Asia in its prime; and remains so even now. It was as wealthy as Amsterdam or London by 1635, with a population of 160,000 including thousands of foreign traders, merchants & mercenaries. The Arakan Kings even employed Japanese Samurai as trusted bodyguards.
The kingdom controlled vast coastal regions from western Myanmar well into eastern India, its reign lasting 354 years. When the city finally fell to the Bamar in 1784, it was abandoned and largely forgotten. Grand palaces, 19-miles of fortifications, and some 700 uniquely designed Buddhist temples were slowly swallowed by the jungle.
Today the jungle is thick only with irony; these grand symbols of a once bustling Dynastic Capitol serving as little more than an exotic backdrop for what is now a sleepy rural village. The world still doesn’t know it’s here. You do. Get here before they figure it out?
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Raiders of the Lost City
Day 1: Yangon Arrival – City Tour – Shwedagon Pagoda – Overnight Yangon
Day 2: Morning Flight to Sittwe – Tour Sittwe – Overnight Sittwe
Day 3: Sittwe to Mrauk U by Riverboat – Overnight Mrauk U
Day 4: Mrauk U – Exploring the Kingdom – Overnight Mrauk U
Day 5: Mrauk U – Private riverboat to Chin Tribal Villages – Overnight Mrauk U
Day 6: Morning Boat to Sittwe – Flight to Mandalay – Overnight Mandalay
Day 7: Mandalay – Full Day Insider’s Mandalay – Sunset Bridge – Overnight Mandalay
Day 8: Mandalay – Mingun Rock Temple – Onto Sagaing – Drive to Monywa – Overnight Monywa
Day 9: Morning Drive to Po Win Daung Buddha Caves – Backroads to Bagan – Overnight Bagan
Day 10: Bagan Temple Tour by Horse & Carriage – Surreal Temple-Top Sunset – Overnight Bagan
Day 11: Bagan – Hot Air Balloon over Temples – Crafts Villages – Fly Heho – Overnight Naungshwe
Day 12: Misty Alms Rounds – Inlay Lake Full Day by Boat – Floating Villages – Intha – Overnight Inlay Lake
Day 13: Indein Market & Ruins of Nyuang Oak – Back to Hotel for Sunset Cocktails – Overnight Inlay Lake
Day 14: Inlay Spa Morning – Nuangshwe Padaung Visit – Afternoon Flight Yangon – Overnight Yangon
Day 15: Yangon – Sule Pagoda – Colonial Walking & Shopping Tour – Departure
Raiders of the Lost City
Starting at $2195 per person, double occupancy
15 Days / 14 Nights
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