Phaung Daw Oo Festival

Overview

Take an eye-opening trip to Myanmar’s highlights. Inle Lake is located in the heart of Shan State. The most memorable parts of Inle Lake life are seeing the sunrise & sunset over the lake and sleeping in a cottage overlooking Inle Lake – the sound of water and nature in the green background. PhaungDawOo Pagoda Festival is one of the biggest and most famous festival in Myanmar, taking place annually in Inle Lake. The attention of the festival is the long boat race. The boats are paddled using the skillful, one-legged rowing technique, teamed up by about 50 rowers, representing the villages.

Tour Highlights

Observe various pagodas
Watch the amazing long boat races, the rowers standing upright and rowing with an oar attached to one leg.
Pilgrim the five revered golden Buddha images from the pagoda are ferried around the lake
Learn about the nature of pilgrims from the surrounding region who come to pay their respects and join the festivities.
Make a chance to know about thousands of people living around the lake and the surrounding mountain bringing flowers and fruits packed on the lacquered trays to celebrate and offer to the pagoda
Have lots of opportunity to interact with the local villagers
Gaze upon the beautiful natural surroundings

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Itinerary

Arrive Heho. Our experienced guide will meet and welcome you at the Airport. Drive to Inle. After 45 minutes drive (estimated), you will arrive Inle ,”Heart of Shan State”. Then, we will visit Inle lake (nestled amidst hazy blue mountains is the beautiful Inle Lake 900 meter above sea level) where you can study Inthar tribes’ and their ways of life. Boat trip to Inle Lake sightseeing including: PhaungDawOo Pagoda (Holly 5 Buddha Images), Floating Gardens & Plantation, Cheroot Making, Silversmith, Cotton &SilkHand Weaving, Padaung family house (Long Neck tribes), NgaPheChaung Monastery. Overnight at hotel.

Start time: 8:00AM – End Time: 4:00 PM

Breakfast at hotel and we will explore to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival which is one of the biggest and most famous festival in Myanmar, taking place annually in Inle Lake, Shan State, usually between Sep and Oct, and is celebrated for 18 days. During the festival, four of the five gilded Buddha images are removed from their shrine in the PhaungDawOo Pagoda and placed on the Royal Karaweik barge to tour around the lake, from village to village. The busiest time of the festival is on the day when the images arrive at the main town of NyaungShwe. At there you can see most pilgrims from the surrounding region come to pay their respects and join the festivities. Overnight at hotel.

Start time: 8:00AM – End Time: 3:00 PM

Breakfast at hotel and we continuously visit PhaungDawOo Pagoda Festival to see that the boats are paddled using the skillful, one-legged rowing technique, teamed up by about 50 rowers, representing the villages.Spend your time in the whole day at the festival which is full of interests. And then, transfer to Heho Airport.

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