After breakfast, you’ll travel through rural areas on the City Circular Train, with the opportunity to see cigarette sellers, betel nut traders, fortune tellers and much more at the various stops.
Back in the city, you’ll visit the National Museum with the Lion Throne, which belonged to the last king of Myanmar, and the royal regalia from the Burmese kingdom of the 19th century.
Lunch at a local restaurant (for your own expense). In the afternoon, you’ll visit the Kyaukhtatgyi Pagoda which features a 70‐metre long reclining Buddha, the Kandawgyi Lake and its royal barge (with an opportunity to take pictures) and in the late afternoon, the world‐famous Shwedagon Pagoda which Somerset Maugham described as follows: ‘The Shwedagon rises majestically, glistening with its gold, like a sudden hope in the dark night of the soul of which the mystics write, glistening against the fog and smoke of the thriving city’.
You can enjoy the sunset over the pagoda.
