Kyundaw, Myanmar Cruises

Kyundaw, Myanmar Cruise Port

• One of your visits may include the village's one-room schoolhouse. Still unused to many western travelers, the children are delighted by visitors and enjoy a good singalong. The schoolhouse holds students from kindergarten age through fifth grade, whose joy and interacting with new people is infectious.
   
• Take a tour of the village and watch the residents go about their daily lives. You may get to visit one of the local’s fisherman’s homes, which is like to be a wooden structure raised on stilts to avoid flooding.
   
• With far more stupas (around 7,000, which surround the area monastery) than people, one of your stops should be the Buddhist Nunnery. Unlike the monks, the nuns collect and cook their own food; if you make a present of food, you'll see them bless this wonderful gift.
   
• One of the tours offered may be to visit a nearby teak forest to reach the elephant sanctuary. Here you'll see how the staff takes care of these majestic animals – and how playful some of the younger pachyderms can get, as they try to swipe bananas right out of your hands.