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| Join us on a spectacular journey to one of our favorite destinations. |
| In Myanmar, you are still treated like a visiting guest, not a tourist. |
| Explore Asia’s most remote and unique country. Burma, or Myanmar, has slowly emerged as a tourist destination over the past half century, and as such, is a unique experience of a world where time stood still. Here, men still wear traditional longyi dress, numerals are written in native script, while devout Buddhism pervades every aspect of daily life. Discover a country of a million golden pagodas and millennia of history. |
Hosted and organized personally by Asian cookbook author Robert Carmack and textile designer Morrison Polkinghorne.
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5-star and deluxe accommodation throughout, including Rangoon’s most prestigious address: The Strand – in colonial itmes considered the finest hotel East of the Suez. Plus domestic flights, airport transfers, admission fees, and guides. Most meals, including gala banquets, cooking classes,
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The Strand Hotel...
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Yangon Airport is serviced daily by Bangkok Airways and twice daily by Thai Airways via Bangkok; on Silk Air (a subsidiary of Singapore Air) via Singapore, plus its national carrier Myanmar and other regional airlines via Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Kunming China and Calcutta India, Vietnam Airlines from Hanoi, plus an ever-growing list of airlines. |
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Our tour begins and ends in Yangon / Rangoon, the country’s largest city and airport hub. For early arrivals, ask us about our special rates for additional hotel nights at The Strand, plus our unique private guide option. We’ve secured exclusive rates at The Strand, so no one can beat us on price. Guaranteed! |
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| Burma on a Plate |
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Ancient Arakan Kingdom |
highlights of our popular Burma Explorer series, travelling to the country’s top sites of ancient Bagan, imperial Mandalay, Inle’s water kingdom, and the colonial relics of Rangoon.
April 1 - 13, 2013.
14 days, 13 nights. |
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whisks you away to the country’s far West, and its ancient Arakan kingdom of Mrauk U in Rakhine state. This is the first time we’ve offered this destination, as only now accommodation levels have improved. Includes 2 nights at The Strand, an afternoon partying on a flat bed truck through the water festival, 3 nights in Mrauk U & 1 night Sittwe.
April 13 - 19, 2013
7 Days / 6 nights. |
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| In April 2013 we are offering TWO separate tours to Burma, overlapping the New Year’s festival of Thangyan. |
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| Our accommodation is the city’s most prestigious hotel, The Strand, a gloriously renovated colonial treasure, in the heart of downtown Yangon. |
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| All prices to be confirmed. It is still early days yet, but
to indicate your interest. |
| This gives you a heads up on any early bird specials we post before public sale. |
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| Bonus: Join BOTH tours and receive a free bridging night at The Strand absolutely free. |
| And for those on Tour 2 arriving a day early (Friday 12 April only) and staying with us at The Strand, join as a complimentary guest with group at our Strand Grill formal dinner. |
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| Guests leaving us on Tour 1 are guaranteed a late 4 p.m. check out on Saturday 13, to indulge in the city’s water celebrations, before a quick change and airport transfer. *Taking an evening flight home tonight is essential! |
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| “Burma is the new Bhutan,” proclaims the New York Times. In other words, a rare and delightful outpost, well off the beaten track, known to few, but now wildly popular. We’ve been travelling here for years, and celebrate the country’s emancipation from the yoke of an unjust and unfair boycott. |
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| Asia’s most remote country today emerges from a half-century hibernation from the outside world. This self-imposed isolation preserved its role as a cultural repository, and still today men wear traditional longyi dress, numerals are written in native script, and devout Buddhism pervades every aspect of daily life. But foreign influences are taking hold, and with it modernism and an emerging economy. Burma was long regarded as a land where time stood still, but we prefer to think of Myanmar as a place where you are treated like a visiting guest, not a tourist. |
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| This is a land of mythical proportions. Discover a million golden pagodas and millennia of history, from Bagan’s two thousand temples dating from the 11th century to Mandalay’s royal legacy. Colonial Rangoon is an exquisite architectural time warp little touched in over 50 years, and Thangyan water festival – held earch year in mid April to mark New Year’s (ending dry season, entering wet season) is an unadulterated glimpse of local ethnic play. Cruise with us along the mighty Irrawaddy, and discover a world of culinary tourism unlike any other. |
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| We note plenty of changes afoot, rapid and ready, and our strong advice is “visit now” before it’s too late. Over the past decades we’ve personally observed rebuilding in old Hanoi, bustling tourist numbers in Siem Reap, regeneration in Luang Prabang, Bangkok’s skyscraper rise, and now its Myanmar’s turn. |
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