Concorde Travel - Travel Consultants

This fascinating journey gets under way in the Tibetan Highlands of a place called Shangri-La, maybe the Shangri-La that James Hilton describes in his novel "The Lost Horizon" as a hidden paradise at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. We travel along the ancient "Tea and Horse Road”, one of the oldest trading routes in the world for tea from southern Yunnan to Tibet. We travel in the footsteps of legendary American General Stillweil along the infamous “Old Burma Road” towards Myanmar. The 1500km long Burma Road was built under enormous hardship during WW2 by the Allied Troops from Ledo in India across northern Burma to Kunming.

The first inhabitants of Myanmar are generally considered to be the Mon people, from possibly as early as 3,000 BC.  The Mon people settled in central Myanmar and on down along the Bay of Bengal covering the eastern coast. . . . .

Operated by the Eastern and Oriental Express line, this luxury riverboat offers trips up and down the Ayerwaddy River, the main highway of Myanmar.

The dining room and public rooms are very cosy and comfortable, the staff very attentive and the whole experience is one that you will remember for a very long time.