Start your day with a Myanmar style breakfast in one of the local teashops.
Visit the local market and the CULTURAL MUSEUM of the Karen. Proceed to SHWEYINHMYAW Pagoda located at the banks of the Thalwin River.
Drive 1½ hr to the port town of MAWLAMYINE, and check in at hotel on Strand Road among historic buildings from colonial era.
After lunch drive past rubber plantation to THANBYUZAYAT. 70 km (2 hours) south of Mawlamyine was the western terminal of the infamous Burma-Siam ‘Death Railway’. Visit a locomotive dating from World War II, and an Allied War Cemetery, resting-place for over 3,500 Allied POWs (Prisoners of War). Return to Mawlamyine late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight at Attran Hotel (**, River View Suite room) or similar in Mawlamyine.