Chindwin River Cruise - A river journey to discover the hidden treasures of Myanmar

Day 01 BAGAN – PAKOKKU (26 miles / 42 km) (L, D)

Day 02 PAKOKKU – PANKANGYI – AHMYINT VILLAGE - MONYWA (70 miles / 113 km) (B, L, D)

Visit the little town of Pakhan-gyi. This post-Pagan period provincial capital was walled with a moat and originally had a governor¹s palace. We see the old walls, visit the museum and a spectacular 19th century wood carved monastery.
Continue cruising to Ahmyint village and visit the local market, see beautiful houses and the lovely the 17th century style Min Kyaw Swa stupas with 18th century style paintings. Arrive Monywa, the Chindwin River largest port, in the early evening.

Day 03 MONYWA (Pho-Win Daung Caves) (B, L, D)

Visit Hpowindaung and Shwebadaung caves where hundreds of Buddha Statues are placed inside niches decorated with wonderful mural paintings. Late lunch and cast off.

Day 04 MONYWA – KANI (34 miles / 55 km) - KIN (30 miles / 48 Km) (B, L, D)

Late morning explore the village of Kanee and climb the pagoda hillock for its view. Continue sailing upstream until late at night to reach the village of Kani.

Day 05 KIN – MINGIN (Miles 40 / 64 km) (B, L, D)

Early morning we explore Kin village with its beautiful wooden houses and the woodcarvings monastery. Continue sailing upstream to the small enchanting town of Mingin. Explore its temples and 1900’s wooden houses and the Min Kyaung Monastery with old Buddha Images.

Day 06 MINGIN – KYIDAW (1.5 Miles / 2.4 km) - KALEWA (42 miles / 68 km) (B, L, D)

At Kyidaw (Kyi Taung Oo) we visit Shwe Za War Yaw monastery one of the oldest and best preserved wood carved monastery of Myanmar, embellished with wooden sculpted idols with fascinating gold leaf wall decorations. We walk through a beautiful scenario of paddy fields to the village of Kan where we visit another splendid example of Myanmar old monastery. Back to the ship by local boat. Proceed upstream up to Kyaw Zin, a village very close to Kalewa, where we stop for the night.

Day 07 KALEWA – MAWLAIK (38 miles / 61 km) (B, L, D)

In the morning we explore Kalewa, the main river port for the trading with India, the lively market and climb up to Shwe Moat Htaw stupa for the beautiful view. Back to the ship before lunch and keep on cruising upstream to Mawlaik.

Day 08 MAWLAIK – Sailing back Downstream (B, L, D)

Mawlaik (situated 35 km from the Indian Border) was the administrative capital of this area rich of Teak forests. It is a pleasant colonial town with its golf course surrounded by splendid colonial houses built by the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation in the 1920’s and 1930’s (there is still a small community of Indians that used to work for the Scottish company and their descendents). The governor’s house, the administrative building, the school, the hospital, the “Dak Bungalows”, the headquarter of the company are well preserved, still in use nowadays and nicely maintained.
Being this our turnaround point, we begin sailing back downstream to Monywa.

Day 09 Sailing Downstream for 100 miles (160 km) (B, L, D)

Continue sailing all day downstream. Stop at Kyauk Hlay Gar village, famous for its Petrified Wood, where we visit the school and the typical houses.

Day 10 YANDABO (B, L, D)

In the morning we arrive Yandabo, a picturesque village that specializes in Pot-Making, where the peace treaty of the First Anglo-Burmese war signed on Feb. 24, 1826. We go ashore for a walk stopping at some pot-making workshops and to visit the school and the monastery. We cruise upstream the rest of the day.

Day 11 MANDALAY (disembark) (B)

After breakfast disembark at Gawein Jetty approx. 09:00 am.