Connoisseurs Experience
The 2018 Connoisseurs Experience includes 17 unique itineraries centred around exotic destinations, authentic events, local festivals, wilderness and wildlife, and unique cultural encounters. As always, our Connoisseurs Experience features boutique, superior or deluxe accommodations, comprehensive sightseeing and special visits. Many of these departures are accompanied and escorted by our own or affiliated experts, bringing in profound depth of knowledge and unique insights to enhance your travel experience. This is not just a tour, it is an intimate and personal experience
The 2018 Connoisseurs Experience includes 17 unique itineraries centred around exotic destinations, authentic events, local festivals, wilderness and wildlife, and unique cultural encounters.
As always, our Connoisseurs Experience features boutique, superior or deluxe accommodations, comprehensive sightseeing and special visits.
Many of these departures are accompanied and escorted by our own or affiliated experts,
bringing in profound depth of knowledge and unique insights to enhance your travel experience.
This is not just a tour, it is an intimate and personal experience
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Desert<br />
AFGHANISTAN<br />
KABUL<br />
GLANCE<br />
Mianyang<br />
“Bursts of gold on lavender Faisalabad melting into saffron. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spraypainted<br />
Multan by a graffiti artist.” Mia Kirshner (Canadian Lhasa actress and<br />
Ludhiana<br />
Chengdu<br />
Kerman<br />
Kandahar<br />
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PAKISTAN<br />
ISLAMABAD<br />
Brief Itinerary<br />
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NEPAL<br />
T I B E T<br />
Zahedan<br />
NEW DELHI KATHMANDU<br />
Zhaotong<br />
Day 1 Wed Nov 14 2018 Arrive Yangon<br />
Bandar<br />
BHUTAN<br />
Abbas Arrive in Yangon and transfer to hotel.<br />
Jaipur Kanpur<br />
Guwahati<br />
Day 2 Thu<br />
Dubai<br />
Karachi Nov 15<br />
Hyderabad<br />
2018 Yangon City Tour<br />
BANGLADESH<br />
Kunming Qujing<br />
Visit revered Shwedagon Pagoda, Kalaywa Tawa Monastery<br />
Bhopal<br />
Liuzhou<br />
Day 3 Fri Nov 16 2018 Yangon - Bagan<br />
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INDIA<br />
Qin<br />
Fly to Bagan, visit important shrines, dinner in Burmese family<br />
DACCA MYANMAR<br />
MUSCAT<br />
Day 4 Sat Nov Vadodara<br />
Calcutta<br />
Mandalay<br />
Porbandar 17 2018 Bagan Sightseeing<br />
Nagpur<br />
HANOI<br />
Visit Market and village, explore by Surat pony cart, sunset Cruise Durg<br />
(BURMA)<br />
LAOS<br />
Day 5 Sun Nov 18 2018 Bagan - Mandalay<br />
Haikou<br />
Fly to Mandalay, Amarapura, U<br />
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Bombay Bein Bridge, Mahamuni Pagoda<br />
VIENTIANE<br />
Visakhapatnam<br />
Day 6 Mon Nov 19 2018 Mandalay - Mingun<br />
RANGOON<br />
Cruise to ARABIAN Mingun, visit SEA Mingun Paya and Myatheindan Paya.<br />
Salalah<br />
Hyderabad<br />
Day 7 Tue Nov 20 2018<br />
Da Na<br />
Panjim Mandalay - Heho Bay of Bengal<br />
THAILAND<br />
Fly to Heho, travel to the Kalaw, visit ethnic peoples.<br />
Day 8 Wed Nov 21 2018 Kalaw - Inle Lake<br />
Bengaluru<br />
Chennai<br />
BANGKOK CAMBODIA<br />
Travel to beautiful Inle Lake, Visit Shwe Yan Pyae Monastery<br />
PHNOM PENH<br />
Day 9 Thu Nov 22 2018 Inle Lake Visit<br />
ANDMAN<br />
Visit the Inndein temple complex, lunch at a Kochi floating Madurai home Pricing<br />
10 or more Guest 6-9 Guest<br />
Jaffna<br />
SEA<br />
Ho Chi Minh<br />
Day 10 Fri Nov 23 2018 Thiruvananthapuram Inle Lake Visit<br />
(Land only )<br />
USD CAD USD CAD<br />
Visit Five-Day Market, and the “Jumping Cat” monastery SRI LANKA Double Occupancy $2550 $3250 $2650 $3375<br />
Day 11 Sat Nov 24 2018 Inle COLOMBO Lake - Yangon Single Supplement $1250 $1595 $1250 $1595<br />
Return to Heho and fly to Yangon, visit Scott Market.<br />
Intertour Air from Banda USD Aceh $400 | CAD $525 including taxes<br />
Day 12 Sun Nov 25 2018 Yangon Departure Galle<br />
Yangon<br />
Transfer to the airport for our onward flight<br />
KUALA - Bagan - LUMPUR Mandalay - Heho - Yangon<br />
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HIGHLIGHTS & SPECIAL FEATURES<br />
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• Explore Colonial Yangon with its spacious parks, lakes, mix of modern buildings and traditional wooden architecture was affectionately<br />
coined, ‘The Garden City of the East’. Sightseeing in Yangon including Shwedagon Pagoda. Padang<br />
• Visit Bagan, a landscape blessed with over 2,000 shrines, against a mystical backdrop of the legendary Ayeyarwaddy River.<br />
Admire one of the richest archaeological sites in Asia.<br />
• Gathering with Buddhist monks and see Golden-spired Ananda Shrine.<br />
Sumatra Palembang<br />
• Dinner with a Burmese family, Pony-cart excursion through Bagan, cruise on the Ayeyarwaddy River to bask in panoramic<br />
views. Optional hot air balloon ride to witness Bagan’s historic sunrise or spellbinding landscape.<br />
Bandar Lampung<br />
INDIAN OCEAN<br />
• See Fabled Mandalay, the country’s last royal capital and the center of Burmese culture. Fabled Mandalay, visits to JAKARTA markets<br />
and artisans’ studios, tour Ancient Mingun, located on the western bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River and is famous for its Bandung<br />
large unfinished stupa, as well as its impressive bronze bell.<br />
• Visit delightful town of Kalaw, a favourite hill retreat of the British colonials with many of the stockbroker Tudor style<br />
houses remain, surrounded by English gardens with the occasional overgrown tennis court.<br />
• Three-night stay on Inle Lake, encounters with ethnic minorities, Lake Region touring and Lunch with Intha Family.<br />
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