Myanmar Tour Program name >> Customize Myanmar Tour Extension : Bagan – Chauk - Salay & Mt. Popa Extension (Day Return Trip)
Cover Area: Bagan, Chauk, Salay & Mt.Popa
Tour Code: IOTT#0201/0708

After having breakfast drive to a town of Chauk (central Myanmar)about 40 minutes drive from Bagan. After driving about half an hour, one get into an area with many crude oil rigs and gas wells on either side of the roads. You are going to cross over big sand dunes, usually seen in central Myanmar dry arid zone. Burma Oil Company established in 1886 by David Sime Cargill investing 1.5 million Sterling pounds, and later added up to 18 million pounds and crude oil production in Chauk more than a century ago. The morning market in this town is really busy and attractive to all visitors from home and abroad. Continue our visit to Salay. Visit the famous monastery "Yoke-Sone-Kyaung'' which is a cultural heritage site in Sale, which in situated on the eastern bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River. It is famous for its spectacular woodcarvings. It is also the native town of the famous writer Sale U Pone Nya during the time of the Myanmar Kings. Sale Yoke Sone Kyaung was built in AD 1882. There are very beautiful artistic woodcarvings works around it and also ancient Buddha image, utensils of Yadanabon 19 century period, and the museum of Myanmar famous writer U Pone Nya in Sale Yoke Sone Kyaung. Next to "Man" pagoda built in AD 1300. It was made by lacquer ware. Return to Bagan, then proceed to Bagan sightseeing and sunset from Ayeyaweddy River.

Then drive to the KyaukPaDaung and have a lunch. After lunch, 30 minutes drive to Mt. Poppa hillock-a table shaped mountain located in the half way of Mt. Poppa peak over 5,000 feet above sea level. Mt. lat-topped hill, an extinct volcano over 2400 feet above sea level, rising out of Mt Poppa western-range is located in 41 miles-67 kilo from the southeast of Bagan, It is famed as the abode of the Mahagiri Nats or Spirit, their shrines can be seen at a nearby rocky crag, to whom the people of Bagan in 11 century paid annual homage. When you go up along the archways, you will find various kinds of shops such as toys, souvenirs and traditional medicines. The people from every corner of Myanmar visit this flat-topped hillock whenever they are on trip to Bagan.