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Kalaw Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kalaw, Myanmar
Doing the school run
This is a top pick! ... to Lake Inle some 30 odd miles away. Erica was still a little hesitant but after Sapa she is Miss Outdoors. We wandered around Kalaw which is essentially a beautiful small hillside town. We went to the market and picked up a few gifts for the trek, not ...
Like a 1970's Roy Oxford...only worse
This is a top pick! ... night's sleep, we used the duvet the room was so cold. We had our free breako then booked another night bus that evening to go to Kalaw to do some more trekking, we were told this would take 12 – 14 hours and would leave at 4pm. We were aching from ...
Chapter 32: Me and Myanmar, Part 2
This is a top pick! ... hours of travel, I'd made it to Kalaw, which is kind of sad given how close it looks to Bagan on a Myanmar map! As it turns out, Kalaw was excellent. It's an old British hill station - rather similar to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, except not as ...
Trekking...or not, + some much-needed fresh pasta
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Living it up in Cool Kalaw
This is a top pick! ... and the beaches are probably too wet at the moment" "The west?" "Too wet" Now I really started to struggle, "I'm heading to Kalaw, I heard you can do some nice trekking there" "We don't really like walking" This couple continued onto Inle Lake, but I ...
Sikh hospitality in the hills
This is a top pick! ... a marbles-like game, an ancient buddha statue made of bamboo, numerous old British homesteads and an incident with a buffalo. Back in Kalaw, I heard a whine that wasn't too dissimilar from a cat's meow, which in fact turned out to be the whine of a ...
3-day trek from Kalaw to Inle Lake
This is a top pick! ... met some locals and heard tales of a wily Irish man called Francis Murphy who could polish off a whole bottle of whiskey. He returns to Kalaw often and met a local girl and now leaves in Yangon. The next day we met our guide Mishal and set off on our 3 ...
A lakes, a hike and a city
This is a top pick! ... of these oversized dice. It was interesting just watching people do their mundane - for them - weekly stuff. I then headed to Kalaw & spent 2 days doing a guided trek into the tribes villages in the hills that surround the town. The people in the ...
Kalaw - Sixteen Seats and Thirty People
... , 8 hours into our living hell, the road started to turn uphill and curvy as we were climbing in elevation towards our destination, Kalaw. As I was trying to make every last bar of power on my iPod count, I noticed the scenery changing and looking ...
Kalaw to Inle Lake
... of that day walking with our guide KT. We talked of politics, sex, divorce, family, religion, and business within modern Myanmar's conservative culture. Arriving at the western rim of Inle Lake amid the tourist stalls, we boarded a long boat for the ...
Bamboo Buddha: Buddha of Nee Paya - Kalaw
Back into Kawlaw and to the gold lacquered bamboo Buddha of Nee Paya at the Pinmagon Monastery. Dinner was courtesy of the Everest Nepali Food Centre with garlic cheese chapatti, dhal curry rice, fried rice - egg, vegetable and chicken plus a bottle of ...
HIGHLIGHTS Thurs 3 Jan: Drive to Kalaw
Again up for the sunrise from the hotel roof top bar. Today was a long and uneventful 6 hour drive to Kalaw. Royal Pearl Rose Restaurant in Nan Pan Thet Village for our usual hour long lunch stop. Kalaw is set high 1,300 m above sea level with a cooler ...
kalaw
... ehemaliger britischer luftkurort, angelegt am ende des 19. jahrhunderts, mit häusern im kolonialstil. von den amerikanern wurde kalaw im 2. weltkrieg als versorgungslager für die streitkräfte von chiang kai shek benutzt, um waffen auf der ...
Kalaw Market & Railway Station
... and rice. This was probably the trip’s most inexpensive meal so far with the mains at 1,000 to 2,000 K = a dollar or two! The Myanmar beer was the cheapest on tour at 1,700 K compared to the usual 2,500 to 3,000 K. The most expensive was 3,500K. I ...
Lofty Kalaw, trekking central
... and we'd have to go and get them to fix it. This was the case with all the toilets in the place. Grimy. We did end up booking our trek with them. Kalaw is the trekking capital of Myanmar. Most people trek from here to Inle Lake which is a 3-day hike away. ...
Kalaw
Uli et moi sommes arrivés dans cette ville pour organiser un trek qui a pour but le Lac Inle. Trek de deux jours dès le lendemain avec 3 pakistanais et deux américaines. Le trek fut sympa même si un peu trop facile à notre gout. On a ...
Shit, it's cold!
... ;In Upper Class ($3) however there was a tour group of middle aged, middle class Brits. There are loads of these tour groups in Myanmar now that it's 'opened up' and they are happy to pay 40-60 dollars a room which is obviously why its so expensive here! ...
Trek to Kalaw
... that included two nights accommodation and the meals. The trek through the hilly landscape inhabited by the different minorities of Myanmar was nice and fascinating. The scenery was delightfully variable with all the farm fields, forests and hills. ...
Moving on Again
... a few days ago. As fate would have it, there is no direct means of public transport between Nyaungshwe and Kalaw, two of the more popular tourist destinations in Myanmar. So we spent a lot of our free time in Nyaungshwe trying to arrange a taxi to ...
radtour
3.12.2012 hotel aung mingalar, nyaungshwe wir radelten richtung berge um ein weingut zu besuchen, die fahrräder mussten wir das letzte stück schieben, die puste ist uns ausgegangen. oben angekommen wurde natürlich wein de- gustiert, heinz ...
The 12 hour night train to thazi was ...
... , so I suppose everyone wins - except the children who have no shoes or pencils to do their homework with. Poor helpless Myanmar. The highlight of Kalaw was our 2 day trek to the village tribes, hiking through the mountains and rain forests. We had a ...
Hiking trip from Kalaw to Inle lake
... to bargain even more with the people from the minibus. The ride with the minibus was awesome, very hilly, very curvy and some Myanmar people throwing up.The bus is quite uncomfortable for people having a normal height. For dwarfs from Europe and Asia just ...
inle-seerundfahrt
... dörfer sind von kanälen für die boote durchzogen. der inle-see wird deshalb auch das "venedig von myanmar" genannt. wir kamen zu den fischerbooten mit den beinruderern und konnten nur staunen über diese fertigkeit. beim besuch einer ...
HIGHLIGHTS Fri 4 Jan: Hill trek > Painebin village
... currently being built and in next to no time we were back to the road and another simple roadside restaurant lunch. Back into Kalaw and the bamboo Buddha of Nee Paya at the Pinmagon Monastery. Dinner was courtesy of the Everest Nepali Food Centre. See ...
Trekking in Kalaw
... Day 2. I will finish with a comment about the state of this wonderful country and my reading patterns. The elections here in Myanmar on April 01 went decidedly in favour of freedom, democracy and progress. Suu Kyi's party won 44 of 45 seats ...
samichlaus
6.12.2012 die nächte hier sind recht kalt und wir musssten uns bis zur nasenspitze zudecken um nicht zu frieren. auch haben wir jede nacht einige konzerte von hunden die wie kojoten heulten und bellten. ich habe noch nirgens so viele herrenlose ...
ridin' atop a truck full-a mellons
... -grip on the rope. So much fun, breaking all the usual rules of the road, I could hardly contain myself. Not long until we rolled into Kalaw, greatly appreciated a well-earned hot shower, and organized a 3 day hike to Inle Lake. What a day, what a ...
Trekking a Kalaw
Bonjour, apres 8h de voyage avec notre taxi, nous sommes bien arrives a Kalaw, petite ville de montagne. Nous sommes partis le lendemain pour un trek de 3 jours afin de rejoindre Inle Lake. La premiere nuit nous avons dormi a meme le sol chez l'habitant, ...
the final star trekking
... region and country. most importantly, he speaks english very well and it is easily understood. approximately 90% of the population in myanmar are farmers. they may be poor and have to work hard, but supposedly there is not much poverty here, as in ...