We left Bangkok early in the morning to fly to Mandalay, Myanmar(Burma). A new county to explore. I hardly know anything about Myanmar so I’m very excited to learn more about it.
We got to our hotel mid-afternoon and managed to squeeze in a little walk-around before it was time to meet our new tour leader and group.
As we always do we found some interesting small allies where we walked around amongst the locals. We even got invited to a house where we got to speak to the old-man. Very interesting.
The next morning we got divided up into three taxis, me and S got our own. After a five hour long crazy drive on very winding roads over the mountains into the small town of Hispaw, where we had a lovely walk along rice paddies and small villages until sunset. Stunning walk!
The following day was all open for our own activities. Most of the group took a boat trip while me and S did another exploring. We walked and walked around villages, fields, monasteries and other interesting places. As the Bamboo Buddha.
When we continued our trip we traveled by the local, very local bus. We sat amongst bags of corn and rice. The few seats the bus had were taken by tourists, so the locals sat and stood on top of each other. At the most we were 32 people + some kids in a bus made for 16...
We arrived to Kyaumke where we went on a 15km hike. We visited a Palaung village on top of the “mountain”. A local family invited us in to their home for lunch. Very special.
The hike was great, the landscape fantastic and the views breathtaking!
A lovely day that ended with cake for S that had her birthday and interesting but difficult information about the country and their complicated history.
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