Motorcycle dual-purpose and Adventure, the Burman classic on Royal Enfield

Day 1 Mandalay - Mandalay - 0 km

Mingalabar – Welcome to Myanmar! You can arrive anytime on this day. We will have the accommodation ready for you. Settle in, explore Mandalay at your own pace. Let us know if you would like us to arrange an airport pick for you. (it is not included)
Meet your tour leader and travel companions in the hotel lobby at 7pm (join-in groups). We will head out for a typical Mandalay bbq dinner in town. Get to know your group over a beer and we’ll run through the trip plan and essentials.

Meals included: Welcome Dinner
Overnight: Hotel in Mandalay

Day 2 Ywangan - 160 km

Get ready for your motorcycle adventure. After bike fitting and checks we head out of Mandalay and ride through scenic and varied countryside roads making stops in villages and view points enroute to Ywangan. Yawangan is a small Danu minority village tucked away between forest and limestone mountains. After checking in to our base we head out for an afternoon off road ride passing coffee plantations to a limestone cave and waterfall and return back to Ywagan for the night.

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Ywangan

Day 3 Ywangan - Inle Lake - 100 km

Local style breakfast and ride through fertile Shan plateau, a major farming region for seasonal crops like mustard leaves, cabbages, cauliflowers and marrows. Enjoy the challenge of winding scenic route through Palaung minority villages where you may see Palaung ladies still wearing their colourful traditional dress with silver belts. The Palaung are mountain dwellers and grow tea, mountain rice and different kinds of fruit in the orchards up the hills. We will drive to the foot of Yasakyi peak and hike up for commanding views over the region. After lunch stop in Pindaya visit the Pindaya cave the main attraction of Pindaya housing thousands of buddha images. There is also cool parasol shop by the road where Shan umbrellas are handcrafted. Our afternoon ride is on scenic road to Inle Lake valley through “Tuscany” of Myanmar – rolling hills region which lights up in different colours before harvest (in Nov & Dec). We cap the day with wine tasting at Myanmar’s premier vineyard enjoying great lake vistas and sun going down behind distant hills in the horizon. From Aythayar it is short ride down to Nyaung Shwe town where we spend the night.

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Inle Lake

Day 4 Inle Lake - Inle Lake - 0 km

Good morning Inle Lake! We will explore the lake today by boat. Visit the 5-day market (on market days only), villages built on stilts over the lake, old monasteries, cigar rollers and artisans workshops and marvel at Inn Thar fishermen skillfully balancing on one foot and working their fishing nets and traps same time. If you would like to explore Inle surroundings and hills with your motorcycle your guide will be more than happy to give some trail suggestions for the day. There are many options from cultural sights to off road and hill tribes. We can also arrange upon request optional cooking classes, kayaking tours and hot air ballooning.

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Inle Lake

Day 5 Inle Lake - Old Bagan - 280 km

Long day and early start ahead as we drive down from the mountains and leave Shan pleteau. For most of the way today we will pass through a flat region of Central Myanmar, beginning with Yinmarbin, Thazi and Meikhtila towns. This is heartland of Bamar people who first settled in these fertile plains over a millennium ago and from here spread across the whole Ayeyarwaddy region. The landscape is rolling hills and fields, until afternoon arrival to extinct volcano Mount Popa and its volcanic plug Taungkalat. The latter has become one of the most important pilgrimage spots for “nat” spirits worshippers in Myanmar. Continue for another hour to Bagan and arrive there before evening, just in time to watch a beautiful sunset.

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Bagan

Day 6 Old Bagan - Old Bagan - 0 km

Bagan has peculiar rule forbidding foreigners riding motorcycles in the town and archeological zone “as a preventive measure” to avoid accidents. Today we take on the smaller trails connecting villages and temple groups on e-bikes to show you some of the hidden treasures of this Unesco World Heritage site.
There are over 3000 temples and monasteries, dating back to 11-13th centuries dotting the vast plain – given the enormous size of the area, there will be always places where we can escape the crowds and have the temples just for ourselves. .

Optional extras in Bagan:
Sunrise hot air balloon flight – this is the top excursion in Bagan and well worth the investment
Sunset cruise on Irrawaddy river – Private boat just for us, cool drinks and snack

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Bagan

Day 7 Old Bagan - Mandalay - 220 km

Today will be our last riding day as we leave Bagan and head northwest along the secondary road with less traffic. First we cross the bridge to Pakokku from where we can visit Ma Ahu Alae Village – a small village with full of ancient’s pagodas, lovely people with great smiles. Take a short break for the local lunch then continue riding through the rural region of Central Maynmar’s dry zone. We can take regular stops and interact with the locals there who still rarely get a change to see foreigners. Crossing the Chindwin River, we find ourselves in the area with villages where until present day one can meet descendants of European POWs from WWII and migrant families that served 17th century Burmese kings back in the days – they keep many of traditions and are avid Catholics. Continue riding to Sagaing which holds country’s record for the highest concentration of monasteries and monks, and serves as a spiritual center of Myanmar. From there it’s only an hour reach to Mandalay. Depending on time, we can stop in Amarapura for iconic sunset by U Bein bridge, built 2 centuries ago of old palaces teak pillars. Back in Mandalay for the night. This evening we gather to bid farewells and to raise a toast for the team and crew over a dinner.

Meals included: Breakfast
Overnight: Hotel in Mandalay

Day 8 Mandalay - Mandalay - 0 km

Let us know if you would like us to arrange transport to the airport. (Not included)

Meals included: Breakfast