Bagan is not only the site of thousand year old temples and pagodas, but also home to many villages scattered around the surrounding plains.
Leave from your hotel by horse cart along dusty lanes and tree shaded roads past temples and monasteries to Taung Bi village. Visit a noodle maker, a Myanmar Village - style movie theatre, a village hairdresser and a local tea shop. Continue to the Ayeyarwaddy River and visit on the way some traditional family businesses including blacksmiths, brick makers, dry snack ‘ home factories’ and bamboo roof producers, where the skills and trade have been passed on for generations.
Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
Return to your hotel by horse cart or car. In the afternoon, enjoy Aroma Oil massage (60 min) at the hotel.
End your day with an excursion by boat on the Ayeyarwaddy River to admire sun set. Transfer back to hotel by car.
Dinner at hotel and overnight stay at Aureum Palace Hotel (****, Orchid / Jasmine Villa) in Bagan.