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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 is the world’s hottest new destination!
And no one knows this country better than Globetrotting Gourmet – we’ve been hosting tours here for over 10 years. Join us over the holiday season, for Christmas and/or New Year’s. And discover a country where you are treated like a visiting guest, not a tourist. |
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December 2012 - January 2013 |
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Christmas & New Year's |
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Christmas in Rangoon
Dec 23-28, 2012
6 Days, 5 Nights. |
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| Staying exclusively at The Strand, colonial elegance at its best. Turing the sites of colonial Rangoon and outlying villages. Includes Christmas eve gala dinner. |
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New Year’s in Mandalay
Dec 28, 2012 – January 4, 2013
8 days, 7 Nights. |
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Celebrate the New Year in Burma’s imperial capital Mandalay. Fly to ancient capital Bagan/Pagan and sail the mighty Irrawaddy.
Includes New Year’s eve gala dinner. |
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Special prices for joining BOTH tours. Dates are confirmed, and hotels reserved.
But we’re still finalizing the day by day itinerary, plus final costs. |
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April 2013 |
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Myanmar New Year's |
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Burma Highlights:
Rangoon, Bagan, Mandalay, Inle Lake
April 1-12 2013
12 Days, 11 Nights.
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Touring all the country’s major sites, plus more! Colonial Rangoon architecture, ancient temples of Bagan; imperial capital of Mandalay, and ethnic floating villages of Inle Lake. Plus market tours, gala meals, cooking classes. |
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Ancient temples of Mrauk U
& Rakhine State
April 12-18 2013
7 days, 6 Nights.
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Discover the ancient Arakan kingdom and Mrauk U, plus some of the Myanmar’s best seafood. Fly to the country’s far west coast, and its frontier near Bangla Desh. |
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| Yangon lodgings exclusively at The Strand, colonial spendor at its best! |
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| We’ve already received heavy pre-registration on this tour, so it promises to be a sell out! Burma is the world’s hottest new destination, but to us, it’s an old favourite. After hosting tours here for over 10 years, no one knows this country better than Globetrotting Gourmet. Join us over the Water Festival holiday season in April. |
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| Special reduced price for joining BOTH tours. Dates are confirmed, and hotels reserved. But we’re still finalizing the day by day itinerary, plus final costs. |
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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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