19 Days Cambodia Myanmar and Laos with Island Retreat

Welcome to Laos, the mysterious Buddhist country with a unique culture and natural beauty.

Upon your arrival in Luang Prabang, your private local tour guide guide will welcome you in the airport then escort you to your hotel in Luang Prabang city.

The rest of the day will be at your leisure to relax and exploring the city. You can enjoy some drinks in one of the cafés or strolling along the beautiful riverside.

Feel free to ask our tour guide for suggestions if you'd like to explore the city instead of taking a rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Luang Prabang

 Meals: NA

After breakfast, your tour guide will meet you at 8:00 am – 8:30 am to start the day of the Luang Prabang city tour. In the morning, you will visit:

1. Royal Palace Museum: once served as the residence of King Sisavang Vong and was designed in the French Beaux-Arts style with many interesting artifacts of traditional Lao culture.
2. Wat Sene: the oldest temple of Luang Prabang.
3. Wat Xiengthong: its roofs sweep low to the ground and represent classical Laotian architecture.
4. Wat Visoun: the oldest Buddhist temple and the city’s museum of religious arts.
5. Wat Aham: the monastery of the blossoming heart.

After eating a delicious Laotian lunch, you are going on a tour in the afternoon.

1. Arts and Ethnology Center: learning about Laos’ many ethnic cultures.
2. Weaving Villages of Ban Xiengkhong and Ban Xienglek: known for their arts and crafts including saa paper and silk.
3. Weaving Class: start with a simple explanation of silk, dyeing, and weaving. Tourists will get their own loom and guidance from a weaver to learn how to weave.

After the class, you will return to the city for a visit to Wat Mai, which is one of Luang Prabang’s largest and most richly decorated temples.

You will finish the afternoon trip by enjoying a refreshing drink at one of Café. Then, you will be escorted to the local night market to discover the local life of Luang Prabang.

After the tour, go back to the hotel for a good rest. 

 Accommodation: Overnight in Luang Prabang

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, your tour guide will meet you at the hotel around 8:00 am – 8:30 am. The day begins with a boat ride up the Mekong River, which gives you a breathtaking view of the tranquil countryside. Along the way, you'll stop and visit:

1. Ban Xanghai village: the place where Lao rice wine and rice whiskey are produced. You'll have the opportunity to try some and learn about the process used to make it.
2. Pak Ou Caves: two linked caves filled with thousands of gold lacquered Buddha statues of various shapes and sizes left by pilgrims.

Lunch will be served near the caves. You'll try a local Laotian dish called "Orlam" which is a soup with vegetables and features a spicy wood that is partially edible. After a short rest, you’ll continue on your half-day tour to the beautiful Kuang Si Waterfall.

1. Bear Rescue Sanctuary: three bear houses were built with a capacity for 25 rescued bears. 
2. Kuang Si Waterfall: the most beautiful in Laos. You can cool off with a refreshing swim in the pools or walk along the forest trails.

After the tour, your tour guide will escort you to enjoy a Lao-style spa and get relaxed. Then, you will get back to the hotel for a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Luang Prabang

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, enjoy your free time in the morning. Then, you’ll be escorted to the airport and take a flight to Yangon for about 5 hours and 30 minutes, including a layover in Bangkok.

Welcome to Yangon!

Our tour guide and driver will welcome you at the airport upon arrival. You will be escorted to the hotel and check-in. The rest of the day is at your leisure for recovery.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Yangon

 Meals: Breakfast

After morning breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up at 8:30 am to Yangon Railway Station. Taking the local circular train journey to the outskirts of town (20-30 minutes ride).

1. Circular train journey: observing the lively and colorful life of the rural Burmese people.
2. Kyi Myin Daing Market: a variety of street vendors sell colorful wares, where you can explore the market and meet friendly locals.

Go back to the downtown area of Yangon to enjoy Myanmar cuisine. You’ll continue your tour in the afternoon. You’ll explore:

1. Old City Hall: A well-balanced blend of Western and Burmese architectural styles, listed on the Yangon City Heritage List.
2. Botahtaung Pagoda: features golden decorations inside and houses a sacred hair of Gautama Buddha.
3. Bogyoke Market: sells many Burmese traditional handicrafts including stone, wood, bronze carvings, and much more.
4. Kandawgyi Park: famous Karaweik, a concrete replica of a Burmese royal barge built in 1972, near Chaukhtetgyi Reclining Buddha Image.
5. Shwedagon Pagoda: an important Buddist icon, which has been described as one of the wonders of the world, plays a very important role in old Burmese history.

Enjoy the sunset over the Shwedagon pagoda, and then you’ll get back to the hotel for a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Yangon

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, enjoy your free time in the morning. Then, you’ll be escorted to the airport and take a flight to Yangon for about 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Welcome to Bagan! Our tour guide and driver will welcome you at the airport upon arrival. You will be escorted to the hotel and check-in. Take a short break then.

This afternoon, you’ll explore Bagan. In this ancient city, you’ll visit:

1. Thousands of Buddhist pagodas: over 4000 Buddhist temples and Pagodas sprinkled all across the town.
2. Nyaung Oo Market: locals buy and sell products.
3. Shwezigon Pagoda: the largest pagoda in Bagan painted with real gold.

Then enjoy a fun horse cart ride to a little village called Taung Phi for a view of a teak monastery. Keep riding in the horse cart around temples and winding roads, while the sun moves toward the horizon, making interesting shadows from the temples on the ground. You’ll visit Shesandaw Pagoda and watch one of the best sunsets in Southeast Asia.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Bagan

 Meals: Breakfast

Today, you need to get up early at 5:00 am to experience a beautiful hot air balloon flight over Bagan’s temples. 

Drifting over a panorama of a thousand ancient pagodas, silent in the shadow of low-slung mountains and against the banks of the mighty Irrawaddy River, you will have a wonderful overhead perspective of Bagan. It's a fantastic and interactive experience.

The entire experience will last about 2.5 hours. On landing, our fully trained Myanmar ground crew will pack the balloon whilst passengers enjoy a glass or two of celebratory champagne. You’ll receive a flight certificate signed by the pilot.

After enjoying a delicious breakfast, you have free time on your own until your tour guide picks you up at 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm to Mount Popa.

1. Mount Popa: a dormant volcano in central Myanmar and the highest point of the Pegu Range.
2. Popa Taungkalat Monastery: a special monastery high up on a big rocky hill, offering beautiful views of the fields nearby and Mount Popa.
3. Nat Shrine: mannequin-like figures representing the 37 Nats, which is dedicated to animist spirits.

Note: You need to climb 777 steps to get to Popa Taungkalat Monastery. If you don’t want to do that, you can choose to visit the sandalwood forest and medical herb garden with plenty of flora and fauna.

After touring Mount Popa, a stop will be made at a palm tree plantation on the way back to the hotel in Bagan. Villagers earn money from these palm trees. It's a nice break where you can watch them work with palm trees. 

 Accommodation: Overnight in Bagan

 Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, enjoy your free time in the morning. Then, you’ll be escorted to Mandalay for a 4-hour drive.

Welcome to Mandalay! Upon your arrival in Mandalay, your local guide will meet you at the airport and escort you to the hotel.

Around 5:30 pm, your tour guide will take you to Mandalay Hill to enjoy the stunning sunset. Nearby there are also many remarkable sights like:

1. The Golden Palace Monastery: famous for its exquisite wood carvings.
2. Kuthodaw Pagoda: housing the “Biggest book in the World”.
3. Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda: famous for its huge Marble Buddha.

After the tour, you will be escorted to the hotel and have a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Mandalay

 Meals: Breakfast

After enjoying your breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Mandalay at 7:30 am - 8:00 am. You’ll take a drive to Mingun, located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. From here, you will explore the historic sites around Mandalay. In Mingun, you’ll visit:

1. Mingun Bell: the world's largest uncracked bell.
2. Pahtodawgyi Pagoda: the world's largest pile of bricks.
3. Myatheindan Pagoda: It's white and looks like the mythical Buddhist Mountain called Mount Meru.

You’ll then continue to Sagaing, the ancient capital of the Shan and Myanmar Kingdoms. Uncountable white-and-gold stupas are highlights of Sagaing. Sagaing Hill is widely regarded as the religious center of Myanmar. You’ll visit Soon Oo Pon Nya Shin Pagoda on the tranquil Sagaing Hill.

Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in Sagaing. Crossing a bridge over the Irrawaddy River, you’ll take a horse cart to explore the ruins of the old royal capital.

1. 27m tall leaning tower.
2. Maha Aungmye Bonzan Monastery: built of brick in traditional style with elaborated stucco ornamentations that look like carvings.
3. Bargaya Monastery: a splendid teak wood monastery with wood carving.

Your last destination today is the Amarapura, the royal capital of Myanmar twice. In Amarapura, you’ll visit:

1. Mahargandaryon Monastery: the largest teaching monastery in Myanmar.
2. U Bein Bridge: exploring the local way of life and enjoying the sunset.
3. Weaving Workshop: Weaving is the main business of Amarapura people.

After the tour, you will be escorted to the hotel, enjoy your free time, and have a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Mandalay

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After an early breakfast, you’ll be escorted to the airport and take a flight to Siem Reap for about 12 hours and 20 minutes, including two layovers in Yangon and Bangkok.

Welcome to Siem Reap!

Our tour guide and driver will escort you to the hotel and check-in. The rest of the day is at your leisure for recovery. 

 Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap

 Meals: Breakfast

Today, you will get up a little bit early at about 5:00 am for the sunrise of Angkor Wat, experiencing the breathtaking moment.

After enjoying the sunrise, you will be escorted to the hotel for breakfast and have a little rest. You guide will pick you up at about 10:00 am to start your Angkor Temple discovery. In the morning, you will visit:

1. Ta Prohm: one of the largest temples built during the Khmer empire, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the mother of Jayavarman VII.
2. Banteay Kdei: considered to be one of the main groups of temples in the Angkor complex with peaceful and quiet surroundings.

After lunch at a local Cambodian restaurant, you will continue to visit:

1. Angkor Wat: the 7^th wonder of the world, which is a miniature replica of the universe in stone, its beauty and state of preservation are unrivaled.

After the tour, we prepare a Mudita Signature Treatment for you after touring the temples of Angkor Wat, rejuvenate with a spa session in Siem Reap. Using an herbal compress, your masseuse provides a massage treatment that is said to reduce tension and improve energy flow throughout the body.

After that, you will be escorted to your hotel, enjoy your free time, and have a good rest.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today, after breakfast, your countryside Jeep tour will begin with pick-up from your accommodation at about 8:00 am. Your guide will give you a short introduction to the main highlights of the day.

First, you will visit the Siem Reap War Museum, the biggest war museum in Cambodia. It has a special collection of war machines, landmines, and rare photographs from Cambodia's wartime history. Some of the machines on display have even been used in real conflicts.

Then, continue to a Buddhist temple in a local village. Here, you can learn more about Cambodian Buddhist practice, receive a spiritual blessing from a monk, and listen to Khmer fortune-telling.

After that, take a walk through a quiet village. You will pass rice paddies, gardens, and ponds, and see how local farmers work in the fields. The drive through villages and dirt roads also gives you many good photo opportunities.

Next, visit the makers of bamboo rice cakes. You will learn how this local countryside snack is made, and you are welcome to taste it.

From here, continue to visit a local family who makes baskets by hand. You will spend some time learning about this traditional craft and trying simple handmade work yourself.

After the countryside Jeep tour, you will be dropped off back at your hotel in Siem Reap. You will have some time to rest before the afternoon tour.

In the afternoon, take a half-day excursion to Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. First, visit Kompong Phluk, one of the largest villages on the lake, and discover the daily life of local people who live close to the water.

Then, take a boat trip to enjoy the lake views and the mangrove forests. One of the highlights is watching the beautiful sunset over Tonle Sap Lake, with a beer and a calm, peaceful atmosphere.

After that, return to downtown Siem Reap. You will be escorted to the night market and Pub Street, where you can enjoy a relaxed evening.

After the tour, return to your hotel for a good rest.

Accommodation: Overnight in Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today, after breakfast, your guide will pick you up at about 8:30 am, heading to the biggest Southeast Asia’s largest fresh water lake - Tonle Sap Lake. Firstly, tour Kompong Phluk, the largest village on the lake, to discover the fascinating daily lifestyle of the local people who live on the water.

Then, take a boat trip to enjoy the beautiful lake views and mangrove forests.

After the tour, enjoy the lunch at a local restaurant. Then, you will head to the Battambang, which takes about 3 hours driving. On the way, visit the Wat Ek Phnom, in the 11th century and the colonial-style houses along the Sangke River, and also have a look at the traditional Cambodian houses and the artisan factory of rice flaky cake.

Upon arrival in Battambang, check in the hotel and the rest of today is free at your time. Have a good rest for tomorrow's trip.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Battambang

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today, after the breakfast, you will take a ride on the traditional Bamboo Train, a bamboo platform laid over 2 sets of wheels on a single track. In the old days this was used to transport goods between Battambang and Phnom Penh and was a typical mode of transport for farmers and villagers. Today, it takes you through the beautiful countryside to a little village you can explore on foot before returning to your starting point.

After the lunch, climb the 365 stairs to marvel at Wat Banan, an Angkor era temple that sits on top of a hill close to the Sanker River.

The Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau (also known as Phnom Sampov) are a place of beauty, turned tragedy, turned beauty once more.

Scale the side of a mountain leading to the 'secret bat cave' just before sunset where you will sit atop the mountain waiting for the millions of bats located inside the cave to awake.

After the tour, escorted back to explore the local nightlife, then back to your hotel and have a good rest.

 Accommodation:  Overnight in Battambang

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, begin your journey from Battambang to Phnom Penh. Your first stop is Kampong Chhnang, renowned for its age-old pottery craft. Witness local artisans work in this province.

In a nearby village, your will have the chance to observe the various stages of pottery creation and immerse in the process of crafting traditional rice wine.

Then proceed to Oudong, the former royal capital of Cambodia. As you drive through rural villages and pagodas, catch glimpses of the temple mountain adorned with numerous stupas in the distance.

Upon reaching Oudong, relish a classic Khmer lunch.

In the afternoon, ascend the steps to the summit of Oudong Mountain, where breathtaking vistas of the surrounding plains await. Your guide will provide insights into the region's history, architectural marvels, and the religious customs of the Cambodian people.

Continue your journey to Phnom Penh. After approximately an hour, you'll arrive at your hotel in the Cambodian capital, where you'll spend the night.

Note: Battambang - Oudong (287km): 4hrs, Oudong - Phnom Penh: 3 hrs.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Phnom Penh

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your breakfast and our tour guide will pick you up to start exploring Phnom Penh, Cambodian’s capital city. In the morning, you will head to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, so-called Security Prison 21 (S-21) once operated:

1.Prison and Killing Field/Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. The museum features an archive that contains records and tools used in torture, as well as images and artwork.

After the tour, enjoy the lunch at a local restaurant and have a short break. In the afternoon, you will enjoy the following activities:

1.Take a Tuk-tuk ride to visit the Silver Pagoda which is decorated with about 5000 silver tiles on the floor and the Royal Palace where the Khmer royal family lives.
2. National Museum: home to the world's finest collection of Khmer sculpture: a millennium's worth and more of masterful Khmer design.

Then, you will enjoy the sunset cruise with unlimited beer & soft drinks, exploring the Mekong, Tonle Sap, and Four Faces Rivers, as well as Diamond Island and the local fishing village. Gain an authentic experience by observing the housing and lifestyle of the locals who live along the riverbank.

After the tour, you will be escorted to explore the local night market of Phnom Penh. Then, back to the hotel and have a good rest tonight.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Phnom Penh

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today after the breakfast at about 9:00 am, you will be escorted to head for Sihanoukville.

The journey typically spans 4-5 hours. Upon reaching Sihanoukville, proceed directly to the boat pier, where you'll board a vessel for approximately 1 hour to reach Koh Rong.

Upon arrival, the resort team will extend a warm welcome and accompany you to your accommodation. Enjoy an overnight stay at your chosen lodging on Koh Rong.

 Accommodation: Overnight in Koh Rong Island

 Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today is on your own arrangement. Enjoy your beach relaxing in Koh Rong Island.

Note: You can check more information for any extra excursions at your resort, or contact our sales consultants for the suggestions.

 Accommodation:  Overnight in Koh Rong Island

 Meals: Breakfast

In the morning, after breakfast, your tour guide will escort you to the airport.

Tour service ends here.

Hope you enjoyed a great trip with us and we look forward to seeing you next time.

Note: If you’re planning to continue exploring the Indochina region, like Thailand and Vietnam, please never hesitate to tell us, we’re tour experts for all of these destinations.

 Accommodation: NA

 Meals: Breakfast