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| Price IN USD PER PERSON Main Deck Twin Sharing 3,500.00 Main Deck Twin Single Use 5,950.00 Owner Suite Double Sharing 5,250.00 Owner Suite Double Single Use 9,990.00 |
Detailed Itinerary
DAY 1: HOMALIN
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DAY 1: HOMALIN
Transfer from Homalin airport to jetty at Homalin, the furthest
navigable point on the Chindwin for vessels of our size. Alister McCrae
wrote of his visit there 1935 ‘I loved the atmosphere of quiet and
peaceful living there. At night I could hear greylag geese as they came
in to the flooded land around us from far away north’. Bird in 1897 says
little other than that Homalin is the headquarters of a township, but
has very little trade’. Until we get there and explore the place there
is not much we can say!
DAY 2: TOUNGDOOT TO PAUNGBYIN

Toungdoot or Hsawng-hsup in Tai, is an ancient Shan enclave which
in British times still had a ruling sawbwa complete with palace and
court. It will be interesting to see what has become of the royal family
and their home and to see these Shan people so far from their Tai-Shan
homelands. On the way to Paungbyin. Patha was an important oil refinery
belonging to the Indo-Burma Petroleum Co (Steel Brothers).
DAY 3: SITTAHAUNG TO YUWA
Sitthaung was the final resting place of a number of IFC steamers
scuppered there in 1942 in an ‘act of denial’ from the advancing
Japanese who were a matter of hours behind. We hope to find remains of
these ships as we have in the past at Katha on the Irrawaddy. It was
from here that the survivors of the Japanese invasion marched out to
Tamu on the India border. We pass the mouth of the Yu River which drains
the Kubu valley that provided the route for a Lieutenant Grant to march
to the relief of the Manipur garrison when the chief commissioner of
Assam was massacred in a local rebellion.
DAY 4: MAWLAIK AND KALAYWA
Explore Mawlaik replaced Kindat as the administrative capital but
ironically the Myanma refused to move there from upstream Kindat. It was
mainly settled with the company houses of the by the Scottish owned and
run Bombay Myanmarh Trading Corporation in the 1920s and 1930s. There
are many splendid ‘Dak Bungalows’ set around a verdant golf course.
Mawlaik and the other towns of the Upper Chindwin can only be reached by
boat so cars are few. There is a dreamy otherworldly quality to such
places and truly one feels that one has travelled there in the Pandaw
time machine! Then the gateway town for the Chin State. We explore
Kalewa with its markets and quaint wooden architecture.
DAY 5: MINGKIN AND KANEE
Mingkin was rediscovered by Paul Strachan in 1987 and described in
some detail in his book Mandalay: Travels from the Golden City. It
remains for Paul the most art historically interesting site in Myanmar
(more so than the now spoilt Pagan) with its Konbaung court style teak
monasteries sumptuously decorated. Mingkin may be described as the Luang
Prabang of the Chindwin. And we pass a number of attractive villages
like Kanee where we can stretch our legs.
DAY 6: MONYWA

Entering the lower Chindwin where the river widens and the forested
hills fall away from farmland, we pass a number of attractive villages.
We will explore Monywa and make a trip to the Thanbodi Temple with its
million Buddha images.
DAY 7: PHO WIN TAUNG
In the morning, coach to the Phowin Taung Caves, where we will admire beautiful mural paintings and Buddha statues in riches.
DAY 8: DISEMBARK AT MONYWA
Disembark at Monywa IWT jetty at 08.00 am and transfer to Mandalay with 3 hours driving.
Price
IN USD PER PERSON
Main Deck Twin Sharing 3,500.00
Main Deck Twin Single Use 5,950.00
Owner Suite Double Sharing 5,250.00
Owner Suite Double Single Use 9,990.00
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Inclusion & Exclusion
Cruise Price Includes: Domestic Flights Yangon-Homalin or Mandalay-Homalin resp Homalin-Yangon or Homalin-Mandalay, Entrance fees, guide services (English language), port dues, main meals, locally made soft and alcoholic beverages, jugged coffe and selection of teas and tisanes minerals.
Cruise Price Excludes: International flights, no
flights included out of Mandalay for cruise ending in Monywa/Mandalay,
port dues (if levied), laundry, all visa costs, fuels surcharges (see
terms and conditions), imported beverages such as wines, premium spirits
and liqueurs, fancy soft drinks.