Informative tour on how the locals live. If you need something to do and have extra time, might as well give it a shot.
A walk through the village to discover agriculture and the way of life. Meet with locals and share about their lifestyle. Just a fabulous moment !
Nice little village where a super nice local shows you around, how they live, and their crafts (spinning cotton, weaving, lacquer shop, making peanut oil, and more). You can buy something or give a donation. We stopped at one of the little restaurants as well. A great stop between temple visits.
Nice break from Temple hopping. Although it might seem a bit staged, I did enjoy seeing village life. Being told that the village only had electricity connected in 2016 was an eye opener.
Although we had our own tour guide, the tour was carried out by the youth of the village.
Was a nice village to visit. Was offered tea and a cigar to smoke at the end of the tour.
Interesting but seems staged. The village was too neat and too clean, so much so that it seems a little staged – if you want to see "real" villages, I'd suggest taking the circular train in Yangon, or exploring some of the villages on a bike in the Inle Lake region instead. Our guide was quite nice, but we gave her 5000 kyats as a tip and she asked for more. Obviously didn't give any more.
Beware when villager offer you village tour, everything's included snacks/drinks are not ‘FREE’, even in beginning they say so.
Beautiful Village.
Interesting small village. The tour doesn't take very long. And of course they want to sell you the stuff they make in the village, too. They don't pressure you though. I think it's a nice way of getting foreigners money and it's a good thing to support the locals.
A village houses 125 families and they are equipped with mainly the making of sand artworks, scarf weaving, minnanthu village cigar. End of tour, the villagers will ask you for monetary gratitude which said to be their customary traditions for each foreigners leaving the village. No obligations in buying and they are absolutely friendly. Tourist trap or not will depends on how you see it.
This is a local village being entrepreneurial and showing visitors around. It's a nice break from the temples and a good way to see traditional village life. It's always good to support the locals.
The place prides itself as a real village you can visit close to Bagan. Here you can shop for lacquerware. There are a few traditional restaurants here, and apparently a Doctor as well. Otherwise, if you have time then come, if not you're not missing out on anything.
Traditional Bagan village, but nothing much to see besides more disintegrating pagodas. They have small Burmese restaurant.
A small village near the village temple. There is a village tour to see lacquer and weaving techniques and a small local family run food place