This Yangon day tour teases out the stories and secrets of a city with a turbulent history. Starting at Shwedagon Pagoda, our guide will also take you to lesser known and lesser frequented locations which nonetheless have stories to tell.

Learn about Yangon’s Chinatown, the distinct communities that live there and when they arrived in the city. Walk though the Indian Quarter (enjoying plenty of snacks on the way) and into the colonial heart of the city. After lunch you will be taken on a tour of the Secretariat. This building bookends British Burma. Construction began in 1889, just a few years after the British had annexed Mandalay in the third Anglo-Burmese War. After WW2 and just a few months before the British left, independence hero and father of Aung San Suu Kyi, General Aung San, was assassinated here, along with six members of his cabinet.

The tour will end at a night market.

All our tours can be tailor-made to suit the desires of our guests. You may wish to customize this experience by visiting some off-beat destinations in Yangon, such as the infamous Red Square within the Rangoon University campus, and the House of U Thant, UN secretary-general from 1961-71.

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