Our story
The country we call home.
A small, family-owned team that has spent three decades learning every back-road temple, lake village and tea-house in Myanmar worth the detour.
Since 1994
Thirty years in, we still travel like it’s the first time.
Tour Mandalay began in 1994 as a family business with a simple conviction: that Myanmar is best understood slowly, and best shown by the people who live here. We’re now one of the country’s longest-established destination specialists — and still family-run.
Over three decades we’ve built the kind of knowledge you can’t buy: which temple to climb for sunrise, which tea-house does the best mohinga, which village weaver is worth the drive. That knowledge is the whole point. We don’t hand you an itinerary — we hand you the country.
Our travellers keep coming back, and keep sending their friends. It’s why we’ve been named a TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice winner year after year — though the note we treasure most is the one that simply reads, “they knew exactly where to take us.”
30
years designing
Myanmar travel
How we work
Four things we never compromise on.
Genuinely tailor-made
No off-the-shelf packages. We listen first, then build each journey from scratch around the way you actually like to travel.
Local to the core
Born and based in Yangon, with guides who grew up in the places they show you — and three decades of relationships to draw on.
Responsible by default
Locally-owned stays, fair wages and low-impact travel. A share of every trip is reinvested into the communities you visit.
There when it matters
Plans change. We reshape itineraries overnight without fuss, and our team is reachable on the ground throughout your trip.
Corporate social responsibility
The best journeys leave a place better than they found it.
Responsible travel isn’t a marketing line for us — it’s how a family business earns the right to operate for thirty years. We favour locally-owned hotels, employ and train local guides, support social enterprises from Yangon to Kayah State, and back conservation work like the Living Irrawaddy Dolphin Project and the Green Hill Valley elephant camp.
Start the conversation
Let’s design your Myanmar.
Tell us how you like to travel and one of our Yangon-based specialists will reply within two working days — with ideas, not a hard sell.