Hsipaw

Kalaw: beautiful mountain setting, small town with a great Nepalese restaurant! Inle: gorgeous lake surrounded by hills and with the best fresh pasta this side of...somewhere else with good fresh pasta. More later on these places, stay ...

Our host in Namhsan, Maysie, woke us at 6:15am so we could get a pickup back to Hsipaw. Tun Tun redeemed himself by persuading a driver not to drive back at night and instead wait until the morning so we could get a lift. The ride back was much quicker ...

... we travelled a little further upriver to see the confluence of two rivers before turning around for the trip bach to Hsipaw. Unfortunately, after eating lunch and having another fantastic capuccino at Ms Maureens I felt very dehydrated and nauseus, which ...

We rose relatively early, but unfortunately Guy was still feeling a bit weak, so it was to be just the three of us embarking on two days trekking east of Namhsan. The first hour of the walk to our guide Tun Tun's village, Taunggyi, was quite difficult, ...

... , but I had to resort to closing my eyes to overcome a headache. After breaking for lunch at a small dusty town 30km from Hsipaw I decided to climb onto the roof with Guy and brave the bumpy road. The scenery was dry bushland for 45 minutes or so until ...

... . She just burst out laughing at me, probably concluding that I was possessed and hadn't visited the cleansing monk. I arrived in Hsipaw around 4pm and had a quick look around, it's a great looking town. Very pretty and nobody in the town hassles you ...

Lever 3h du mat, nous voilà dans le taxi en direction de la gare ferroviaire. Heureusement elle n'est pas loin car le chauffeur roule encore plus doucement que mon père ! Après avoir couru un peu nous trouvons notre wagon...des bancs en bois avec ...

 Les maux de ventre un peu près passés et l'infection du sang réglée(et oui j’ai eu de nouveau la même chose qu’ il y a deux ans en Nouvelle Zélande,( mes blessures cicatrisent pas) nous voilà partis pour trois jours de trek avec ...

I was finally feeling well enough to leave town so we took an excursion to what I had thought (based on information in the travel guides) would be one of the highlights of the trip. The town of Pyin U Lwin is a former British hill station - to which ...

... with landmines to prevent people form going to the bridge. Allright, we got the message. After 10 hours we finally got to Hsipaw, a cute little town in the middle of the mountains. It's a welcome change and breath of fresh air after Mandalay. We ...