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Hot-air Ballooning tours by Ayuda Myanmar Travels
Bagan by Ballooning
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Ballooning over One of Most Famous Archaeological Sites, Bagan makes your trip to Myanmar have a forever talk of memory to your friends about your journey. Seeing the Old British Bus from Pre-Second World War serving as transportation to ferry the Balloon Takers offers first-hand an open-air experience. You will feel the atmosphere of colonial era, with the British Old Bus, British-made Balloons, and lastly British Pilots. Enjoy the Foreign Champagne as a commemoration of Conquering Balloon ride gladly with the pilot together! Landing site is not fixed as the wind can change its direction at any moment. Sometimes the balloons land over on the other side of the Biggest River, Ayeyawaddy. However, the clients on board have the different experience and views over the Ancient side with the famed Historic Big Lady, Ayeyawaddy. Balloon riding is an excitement and here riding over Ancient Bagan adds another significance…
Balloon Over Bagan per ticket price starts from …295 US $ per ticket
Ballooning over One of Most Famous Archaeological Sites, Bagan makes your trip to Myanmar have a forever talk of memory to your friends about your journey. Balloon riding is an excitement and here riding over Ancient Bagan adds another significance and Ballooning over Bagan is a double exciting event.
Everybody would like to be in safe hand when taking a vehicle or vessel and one of the advantages of the balloons running Over Bagan is that with our pilots, there is safety and comfort as they have mastered their piloting and give attention to every detail; checking, re-checking, counter-checking the weather conditions, reports of clients’ statistis, and so on. Another attribute of the pilots is that they are able to deliver the commentaries over the rigon to the clients on board when piloting the vehicle.
Having a toast at the end of your Balloon ride? You deserve it! Enjoy the Foreign Champagne as a commemoration of Conquering Balloon ride gladly with the pilot together! Talking of the conquest on Hot-air Balloon, in Myanmar History, a Burmese man called U Kyaw Yin, in the yesteryear, invented the balloons with local materials; cotton cloth, threads, petrol, strings. Then instead of releasing the balloons itself, he climed on it and with the self-invented Balloon, he turned somersaults, did acrobatic stunts in the air. If you feel like having the experiences of that distinct Burmese man, you may request the pilot a bar to follow suits.
Floating in the air, you may enjoy the Ghost Stories from the pilot when passing the most massive temple of Bagan, Dhammayangyi built at the end of 12th Century. Afterwards, you can pay a visit to that temple on ground to say Hello to the ghosts by yourself at the temple. How freaking hearing the ghost story is! It can be ture as the temple has the bitter history and sacrifice of lives added to the constrution of the historic monument.
Seeing the Old British Bus from Pre-Second World War serving as transportation to ferry the Balloon Takers offers first-hand an open-air experience. You will feel the atmosphere of colonial era, with the British Old Bus, British-made Balloons, and lastly British Pilots.
Be one of the few tourists in Bagan by taking Balloon Ride. It is not everyday, besides, the Balloon goes up. Decided by the experts and pilots on weather conditions, you will notice how cautious they are. Safty is already assured by taking this fact into account.
In the high season or Peak Season, starting from October to February, the bookings are jammed and reservation should be done way ahead. At that time, the Balloons fly up for the sunrise as well as for the sunset.
When the weather favors, and the enthusiatic tourists’ demand gets higher, as many as 3 Balloons or 4 sometimes fly up over Bagan. Landing site is not fixed as the wind can change its direction at any moment. Sometimes the balloons land over on the other side of the Biggest River, Ayeyawaddy. However, the clients on board have the different experience and views over the Ancient side with the famed Historic Big Lady, Ayeyawaddy.
If you ever experienced the balloon ride before, you take the Balloon Ride over Bagan and you know how different the feelings, views, experience and how distinct the Balloong tour in Bagan is from other balloons you have taken elsewhere!
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Nestled among the mountains of the southern Shan State lies one of Myanmar’s special-interest destinations: serene Inle Lake. The Lake itself can be found in the Southern Shan Hills, with the natural beauty providing stunning panoramic views. With its bamboo-stilt villages, Intha or the residing leg-rowing fishermen, floating vegetable gardens and layered mountains as a backdrop, Inle Lake is one of the most unusual and extraordinary places in the World in which to enjoy a hot air balloon flight which is a must!
Price starts from 340 US $ .. per ticket
In this unique environment, a hot air balloon flight is an adventure that should not be missed. Your day will begin early as you are transported from your hotel. A boat will be at the readiness to ferry you across Inle Lake just as the early morning mist adds surreal vistas during your journey to one of our specially-chosen launch sites, often on the west side of the lake, from where the adventure continues.
Following a comprehensive safety briefing from the experienced UK-licensed Commercial Balloon Pilot, your UK-built balloon will gently lift off, with the pre-dawn mist adding to the magic of your flight. As height is gathered, a wonderful panorama unfolds just right in front of you.
Your flight of around an hour at various heights above the ground and water, will reveal to you the lake, mountains, marshes and stilt-house villages. Driven by the wind, you will see the boats of the lake, motorised canoes transporting visitors along the main canal from Nyaungshwe on a day’s expedition, or Intha fishermen majestically rowing their flat-bottomed skiffs with one leg as they cast their nets.
The wind may take you over one of the markets that rotate around the towns and villages bordering the lake, or perhaps over one of Inle’s famous festivals. You could travel across the bird sanctuary, rich in wildfowl, over teak monasteries, or even to Ywama village with its tall teak stilted houses and its famous floating market. Perhaps then on to the hot springs of Kaung Daing, or to Maing Thauk with its wooden bridge which joins the land-based half of the village with its stilt-house water-based half.
As with all our flights in Myanamar, you will be served fresh tea, coffee and pastries before your flight. After landing, enjoy water, fruit juice, fresh seasonal fruit and a celebratory champagne style chilled sparkling wine in glass flutes whilst the enthusiastic crew pack the balloon away. To commemorate your adventure, you will be presented with a personalised Oriental Ballooning flight certificate signed by the pilot!
If the winds are too light for the balloon to cross the lake, all our Inle pilots are experienced and practised at landing the balloon atop our purpose-built floating balloon platform that follows the balloon all the time. The balloon will then be “sailed” back to shore, adding an extra dimension to your morning’s flight.
An adventure not to be missed in this incredible and unique location!
price starts from 340 US $ per head….
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Ballooning over Mandalay
Balloon Rides Over Inle Lake
Ballooning over Mandalay
The City of Mandalay is the largest city of Upper Myanmar, and considered to be the centre of Myanmar(Burmese) culture. Its universities are amongst the best in Myanmar and the city is of vital trade and social hub. With a population of over 1.2 million, the place is a vibrant, exciting, busy one to spend some time for a traveller. There is no better way to see Mandalay, than flying with Balloon! You will definitely discover hidden sights and treasures of this historic area which can only be seen from the elegant luxury of a balloon basket. Ride on a balloon flying over Ancient Cities of Mandalay!
Price starts from 290 US $ per ticket
Mandalay; Founded nearly 200 years ago by King Mindon, the city has the remnants of the old Palace at its centre, surrounded by an extensive moat and palace wall. The Irrawaddy river flows to the west of town whilst the mountains of the famous British hill-station Maymyo/Pyin Oo Lwin frame the city to the East.
There is no better way to see Mandalay, than flying with Oriental Ballooning! You will discover hidden sights and treasures of this historic area which can only be seen from the elegant luxury of a balloon basket.
The carefully selected launch sites offer a variety of intriguing views of the Royal city and its temples and people. Northwards, Mandalay Hill towers over the city, to the west flows the wide Irrawaddy with its frenetic river traffic and to the south, the U Bein Bridge appears eerily out of the morning mist.
On the Mandalay flights you will have the unique opportunity to see this expanding city from a totally different perspective, and experience the busy life on the streets. With monks walking in long lines, barefoot on their morning alms round, people flocking to the central market to buy their groceries, and the river bank’s busy life where herds of water buffalo bathe in the stream and riverboats of all shapes and sizes load up their goods and passengers, there is never a minute when life stands still in Mandalay. Our balloons provide the best filming and photographic platform for capturing the pulsating life of this city and to appreciate that Mandalay is one of Myanmar’s most rapidly developing towns.
Equally as famous as Mandalay hill and on the front cover of most guide books to Myanmar is the U Bein Bridge near Amarapura. This is the world’s longest teak footbridge, gently curving 1,300 yards over the Taungthaman lake. Winds permitting, your pilot can navigate the balloon low over the lake, creating mesmerising views and reflections on the calm surface before bringing you back to land nearby.
As with our flights in Bagan, you will of course be served tea, coffee and pastries before your flight and fresh fruit and a celebratory chilled sparkling wine afterwards. Do not miss this outstanding experience!
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Special-interest tours by Ayuda Myanmar Travels & Tours Co.
3 Days Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp Tour _Taungoo (Tour Code AYDECT1)
Detailed Itinerary
Feed and Feel Lovely Elephants with Ayuda!
Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp situated in the Bago Yoma Mountain Range and near Taungoo
Day 1 Yangon – Bago – Taungoo
After breakfast at hotel in Yangon, drive to Bago, 50 miles from Yangon, for about 1 and a half. Upon arrival at Bago, which was the Seat of the Second Myanmar Empire, visit Bago market where you will see the local foods, seasonal fruits, dried fish, fresh fish, and so on and very lively with many trading activities. Bago, despite the ancient Capital City, now is a modern city and it is the biggest one after the Trade City of Yangon in Southern Myanmar. Visit Shwemawdaw Pagoda, which is bigger than Shwedagon from Yangon and the tallest Stupa in the whole country dating back to 2000 years of age and the most sacred Buddhist shrine in Bago, and then visit Shwetharlyaung Reclining Buddha supposedly built in the 10th century and most beautiful Buddha in terms of its glass mosaics.
Afterwards, continue drive to Taungoo via New High Way (approximately 4 hours), another Capital City of the Second Myanmar Dynasty. Visit Royal lake in Taungoo and also visit Shwesandaw pagoda that is believed to have a Buddha’s hair is enshrined.
Overnight in Taungoo.
Day 2 Taungoo – Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp (B/L/-)
After breakfast, drive to Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp (approximately 45 minutes) . The driving will be firstly on the Yangon-Mandalay Highway Road for about half hour up to milepost 173 and there, turn to the left to drive along the red-earth country road (now paved with asphault) into the Bago Yoma Mountain Ranges for another 15 minutes (4.5 miles). Upon arrival at Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp, get a rest and refreshing cold drink provided from the hotel, start your Elephant Observation Program; Elephant Show, Elephant Work show in the forest, Elephant ride, and the life of Elephant Trainers called Sin Oo Zie. Enjoy the jungle life at the Elephant Camp for the whole evening.
Dinner and overnight at Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp or at Taungoo
Day 3 Phoe Kyar Elephant Camp – Taungoo – Yangon (B/-/-)
If you can leave out self-pity, that is, getting up early in the morning, you can enjoy another Detective Ways of Elephant Search. As the elephant can not live by the food provided by the Camp, they don’t sleep near the Camp. And therefore, they are always released after a day work for the night stay in the jungle. Thus, they go freely on their own, eat, search for food and sleep in the jungle. The amount of food they need is approximately 3 metric tons of leaves, twigs and the mother nature of jungle is the food reserve for them. So, early in the morning before the dawn, the Oo Zies or the master, the trainers of them start their search for their respective Elephants. There are a lot of interesting stories to hear from them and also the techniques of finding the elephants. You should not miss that opportunity when you visit the Elephant Camp it is ‘Merece la pena!’ sort of chance during a visit to Elephants. In the afternoon, drive back to Yangon (approximately 4.5 hours).
The Elephant Show: It starts with the lovely elephants walking on the SquareTeak Beam in a file. It is believed that among all the animals in the world, the elephant walks most modestly and subtly in the mood of Royal Elegance. Therefore, no doubt that the Royal Kings of Burma used the Great Elephants as their Major Royal Transportation as well as one of the Weapons of Warfare.
Being the Overland biggest animal in the world, its strength is steered by the people not only for the battle in the yesteryear, but also in the timber enterprise then and now. In Myanmar, according to the Forestry Department’s estimate, around 10,000 Elephants remain both in the camps and in the wild.
At the moment, for the tourists, we normally organize the Elephant Camp visits with two Elephant Camps, Myaing Hay Wun and Phoe Kyar. Both are situated on the vicinity of Bago Yoma Mountain Ranges where timber is extracted mostly with the labor of Myanmar Elephants.
When you visit the Elephant Camp, taking Elephant ride gives you the grandeur of Royalty as well as feeling in the Jungle. Enjoy elephant ride and viewing the fauna and flora provides you with unforgettable memory of your visit to Myanmar. Hearing the stories of the Sin Oo Zies or the Patron of Elephant, is really touching. There is telepathy connection between the Elephant and its Sin Oo Zie.
End of program
Please send email for more information on departures dates
This is a private tour
Services Included:
- 1 night in Hotel in Taungoo and 1 night at camp by double sharing room
- Round-trip transfer Yangon - Bago - Taungoo - Phoe Kyar Camp - Yangon
- Meals as mentioned in the program as B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner
- Local English Speaking Guide Service
- Elephant Camp entry fees
Services not Included:
- Myanmar Visa and travel insurance
- all flights
- other meals not mentioned and other entry fees
- Tips, Personal Expenses, Beer and Alcoholic Drinks
For booking, please refer to our Terms & Conditions
Day return Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp Tour _Kalaw (Tour Code AYDECT2)
Detailed Itinerary
Kalaw – Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp – Kalaw (-/L/-)
After breakfast, you will be picked up by the Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp Team. And then, they will lead you to the camp about 15 minutes walking.
-Light Refreshment
-Walk (5-7 Minutes) to the small stream where elephants bathe and you may feed, and bathe them
-Elephant Riding will be coming next exploring the forest area
-Lunch at the Camp
-Take a trekking tour with the Trekking Guide
-You may join the reforestation program by contributing your labor in planting regional trees
-Return back to car either on foot or on Elephant’s Back
Finally, drive back to Kalaw.
End of program
Please send email for more information on departures dates
This is a private tour
Services Included:
- Round-trip transfer Kalaw - Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp - Kalaw
- Meals as mentioned in the program as B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner
- Local English Speaking Guide Service
- Elephant Camp entry fees
Services not Included:
- Myanmar Visa and travel insurance
- hotel accommodations
- all flights
- other meals not mentioned and other entry fees
- Tips, Personal Expenses, Beer and Alcoholic Drinks
For booking, please refer to our Terms & Conditions
Day return Myaing Hay Wun Elephant Camp Tour_Yangon (Tour Code AYDECT3)
Detailed Itinerary
Yangon – Htauk Kyant – Myaing Hay Wun – Yangon
After breakfast, drive to Htauk Kyant approximately 45 minutes. You may stop and visit at Htauk Kyant Allied-War Cemetery, the largest war cemetery that contains more than 6000 graves and records the names of 27000 Allied Soldiers fallen in Myanmar during the Second World War. Then, continue to Pha Lon village driving for about one and a half hour. From there, take a Chinese Motor-drawn Vehicle to the Kun Thee Myaung Village where the elephants are waiting to transport you to the Camp.
Upon arrival, after a rest, enjoy lunch, and then observe the ways of Burmese Elephant Life(Elephus Maximus);
The Elephant Show starts with the lovely elephants walking on the SquareTeak Beam in a file. It is believed that among all the animals in the world, the elephant walks most modestly and subtly in the mood of Royal Elegance. Therefore, no doubt that the Royal Kings of Burma used the Great Elephants as their Major Royal Transportation as well as one of the Weapons of Warfare.
Being the Overland biggest animal in the world, its strength is steered by the people not only for the battle in the yesteryear, but also in the timber enterprise then and now. In Myanmar, according to the Forestry Departments estimate, around 10,000 Elephants remain both in the camps and in the wild.
At the moment, for the tourists, we normally organize the Elephant Camp visits with two Elephant Camps, Myaing Hay Wun and Phoe Kyar. Both are situated on the vicinity of Bago Yoma Mountain Ranges where timber is extracted mostly with the labor of Myanmar Elephants.
When you visit the Elephant Camp, taking Elephant ride gives you the grandeur of Royalty as well as feeling in the Jungle. Enjoy elephant ride and viewing the fauna and flora provides you with unforgettable memory of your visit to Myanmar. Hearing the stories of the Sin Oo Zies or the Patron of Elephant, is really touching. There is telepathy connection between the Elephant and its Sin Oo Zie.
In the late afternoon, drive back to Yangon.
End of program
Note: This Camp is now close and it is not known when it will re-open again!
Please send email for more information on departures dates
This is a private tour
Services Included:
- Round-trip transfer Yangon - Htauk Kyant - Myaing hay Wun Elephant Camp - Yangon
- Meals as mentioned in the program as B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner
- Local English Speaking Guide Service
- Elephant Camp entry fees
Services not Included:
- Myanmar Visa and travel insurance
- hotel accommodations
- all flights
- other meals not mentioned and other entry fees
- Tips, Personal Expenses, Beer and Alcoholic Drinks
For booking, please refer to our Terms & Conditions
2 Days Irrawaddy Dolphin Tour_Mandalay (Tour Code AYDDT)
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Mandalay - Mingun - Shamakar Village - Myay Zun Village
Transfer to Ma Yan Chan Jetty where your boat is waiting to ferry you for the Irrawaddy Dolphin Tour. Get on board the boat and be seated to enjoy the cruise. The captain will cruise up to the Shamakar Village or Myay Zun Village until you have a chance to see the sweet-water Dolphins dwelling in River Irrawaddy. The dolphins are living in the mentioned area and around helping the fishermen who live on fishery and transport on the river.
Enjoy your lunch on board the board while cruising along.
In the late afternoon, you will have a chane to go on the river bank to pay a visit to the villages and observe the life of the locals.
Dinner & Overnight on Board.
Day 2: Myay Zun Village - Mingun - Mandalay
Enjoy breakfast prepared by our chef ! Then, cruise down to Mingun Village where you will go on the river bank to pay a visit to the Historic Monuments.
In the afternoon, cruise down back to Mandalay.
End of Program
Please send email for more information on departures dates
This is a private tour
Services Included
- Simple Bed and breakfast on board Twin/Double sharing room
- Private Boat Fare
- English Speaking Guide for your Whole trip
- Lunch & Dinner on board
- Entrance Fee to visit Mingun
- Small Boats to see Irrawaddy Dolphin
Services not Included
- Myanmar Visa
- Travel Insurance
- Other Accommodations
- Tips for the guides, drivers, bell-boys, etc.
- Flight Tickets
- Other personal expenses
For booking, please refer to our Terms & Conditions