Day 3: Bangkok

After breakfast, you will drive outside of Bangkok to visit The Train Market. There are enormous shrimp, bright red lobsters, tons of squid, and big, big fish caught in Burmese waters. Then you will enter the famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. Sit down and take your pictures, try some mango and sticky rice or hot soup with fish balls. And then you will get back to Bangkok for a tour of Jim Thompson House before you are escorted back to your hotel for some leisure time on your own.

Day 4:  Bangkok - Fly to Yangon

After breakfast, head to the airport for your flight to Yangon. Welcome to Myanmar! Upon arrival at the Yangon airport, your local tour guide will greet you at the airport and escort you to your hotel for check-in and free at leisure until late afternoon. Before sunset, you will pay a visit to the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, the most revered Buddhist temple in Myanmar. Then you will pass by the Shwedagon Pagoda illuminated by beautiful lights.

Day 7: Bagan Sightseeing

Day 8: Bagan - Fly to Heho - Inle Lake

After breakfast takes the flight to Heho and drives to Inle Lake for hotel check-in. Then head for the Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the most famous one in the Inle Lake region. Pay a visit to a local village to see the production of traditional silks on wooden handlooms and ironware. Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

Day 10: Inle Lake - Heho -Fly to  Mandalay

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Heho airport for the flight to Mandalay. Upon arrival, proceed directly to enjoy a sunset on the boat to view the 1.2km long U Bein Bridge which is 162 years old.

Day 11: Mandalay

Today you will visit City Harbor Bridge and continue to Sagaing Hill, a retreat for Buddhist devotees. The afternoon tour includes some of the city's most interesting temples and palaces. Begin with Mahamuni Pagoda, the image enshrined here is perhaps the most venerated image in Myanmar, covered in over 15 cm thickness of gold leaf, Shwenandaw Monastery (Shwe Kyaung), the Golden Teak Monastery. Then to Kuthodaw Pagoda, known also as the world’s biggest book. Finally, enjoy the spectacular sunset at Mandalay Hill, 230 meters in elevation, which commands a magnificent view of the city and surrounding countryside.

Day 12: Mandalay -Fly to  Chiang Mai

After breakfast, drive to Amarapura to visit Mahagandayon Monastery where more than a thousand monks live, and study the Buddha scripture. If time permits, you will have the opportunity to observe the monks having their last meal of the day in total silence.

Day 13: Chiang Mai Elephant Park Tour

An Elephant’s Care Day experience awaits you today. From 8:30 to 9:00 your shuttle bus from the hotel will deliver you to Baan Chang Elephant Park, 50 minutes north of the city. In this ethically run, sustainable elephant refuge, you can meet, touch, bathe and play with rescued elephants. After lunch, prepare the elephants’ lunch of sticky rice, fruit, and herbs and feed it to them. Before being driven back to Chang Mai, don’t miss visiting the baby elephants, too. They have their separate nursery area and will be as curious to meet you as you are to meet them.

Day 14: Chiang Mai

Today first attend a half-day Thai cooking class instructed by an experienced chef. Take part in every step from selecting ingredients from the local market to preparing the materials. The afternoon is free on your own.

Day 15: Chiang Mai - Fly to Bangkok - Hua Hin

This morning you can enjoy some leisure time before taking the flight back to Bangkok. And then you will be escorted to your hotel in Hua Hin (about 3 hours drive).

Day 17: Hua Hin Free Time

Free day in Hua Hin on your own to relax on the beach.