Day trip to Pyin Oo Lwin (Maymyo) (L)

You will be picked up at your hotel around 7:00 a.m. Together with your guide you will travel to Pyin Oo Lwin (approx. two hours). Over 1000 meters above sea-level, Pyin Oo Lwin is a popular hill station about 69km away from Mandalay. It is well known for its colonial style houses with large compound and pine trees, eucalyptus and silver-oak abound in town. Delightfully cool and pleasant the whole year round.
It was founded by Myanmar official Maung Dwe in 1851 and later named as May Myo by British Colonel May in 1896. The 142-hecter well laid-out Botanical Garden, scenic Pwe-kauk Waterfalls, Chinese Temple in addition to British built colonial buildings are places worth visiting. Lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon you drive back to Mandalay. About 8 km to Pyin Oo Lwin are the spectacular Anisakan waterfalls. The waterfalls can be reached in an approximately 40-minute walk from the parking lot through a gorge. In the late afternoon you continue to Mandalay.