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Tour Program Name:  Chine Village  < Home to the Tattooed Faced Women >
Type: Myanmar Extension
Tour Code: JXT # 06
Coverage: Bagan - Mindat - Aye Sakan - Bagan
Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
Availability: December - May
Day 01 Bagan - Mindat <jeep>
Day 02 Mindat - Kyar Do - Aye Sakan <jeep / hiking>
Day 03 Aye Sakan - Mindat <jeep /hiking>
Day 04 Mindat - Bagan <jeep>
Sample itinerary, actual may vary 

Day 01 Bagan – Mindat
Breakfast and cross Ayeyarwady river by ferry to Let Pan Che. Here the adventure safari starts as you roll on in rugged and dusty dirt road passing through dry mounds, green, velvet plain of rice fields <approx 4 hour> to Pontaung mountain range. <Pontaung region is famous among archaeologist as recent discovery by the International team confirmed the fossilized remains found from Pontaung formation about 34 to 50 million years. The team discovered fragments of such animals as turtle, crocodile, rhinoceros, and pig in Pontaung stone layers>
Proceed to Mindat <approx 2 hour> passing through tropical low land scarf forest and eventually alpine altitude of Mindat at 4860 ft above sea. Mindat is the administrative town for southern Chin State. Overnight in local guesthouse.
<Once you get in to the Chin country weather gradually become cool and pleasant. It is a great escape of the heat and dust of the plain during summer.

Day 02 Mindat - Kyar Do - Aye Sakan
Breakfast and walking tour in Mindat. Proceed by jeep to Che Chaung <approx 30 minute> From here, you can see Aye Sakan at 5700 ft right across the valley on the other side of the mountain. Hiking to Chin settlement villages <approx 3 hour walk up hill> through the farmland.
Observe daily list of these remote tribe where Chin tribe women wearing various pattern of tattoo on their face and attractive amber necklaces, houses decorated with animal skull and sacrificial posts which is the symbol of wealth and success. Pack lunch at village and continue hike through the valley and up hill passing through farmland <approx 2 hour> to get to motor way. Meet your driver and drive <approx 30 minute> to Aye Sakan. Overnight at local home.

Day 03 Aye Sakan - Kyar Do - Mindat <jeep / trekking>
Breakfast and walking tour in the near by villages. If you are lucky, you may come across one of the Chin traditional ritual offering ceremony in one of the villages in the region. Chin tribal ritual celebrates by mean of offering a Nwa Nyauk <wild ox> to the Spirit and when sacrificed the person got to raise a totem known as a sacrificial post recognition of his prowess and successfulness. Decorated posts can be found in many Chin villages and are much like the forked posts found among many tribal groups around the world. As wild oxen have become rarer, Chin raises them domestically and the sacrificial posts are now raised more as a symbol of wealth. A Chin tribe who has offered such offering certain occasion would raise another totem to keep his or her burial pot near their home. Thus, there are several burial pots placing under large stone plaque look like a make ship smaller stone caves>
Afternoon drive back to Mindat <approx 1 hour>. This up hill drive provides magnificent view of the mountains. Overnight at local guesthouse.

Day 04 Mindat - Bagan <jeep>
Breakfast and return to Bagan <approx 8 hour>. Cross the Ayeyarwady river by
Z craft at Kyunechaung to arrive Bagan to complete this unique experience.

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