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Kalaw Slideshow
Kalaw
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Another day of walking around
... isn't much to steal - aside from the natural resources, which are being pillaged and sold to China, primarily through Myanmar's citizens of Chinese ancestry. After these political musings, I then had another stroll around the central market and what ...
Kalaw - A town worth leaving
... parted company, as I headed for the Golden Kalaw Inn, and they opted for pricier (and better) accommodations. The Golden Kalaw is a cheap, $5 a night guest house that shoots for rustic, but falls a little closer to dilapidated. The walls are ...
Uncle Sam
... , chatting and cooking. Just one house down we were again invited in for tea and an introduction to 'tanaka'. This Myanmar curiosity is a combination of make-up and suncream, made from bark ground on a special stone. It is pasted on in ...
Hoehlen und Menschen bei Kalaw
... wünschen sie sich schon ein angenehmeres Leben, in dem man es sich leisten kann, auch mal Urlaub zu machen. Kalaw Abseits der Reisegruppe, die zu einem Grossteil aus Kettenrauchern besteht, die nicht immer die Etikette beherrschen und am Tisch rauchen, ...
From Kalaw to Inle
Myanmar has been an eye-opener for me in the sense that I now realise that the former Ostblock is travelling these days. And travelling in numbers. From Kalaw I set off on a 3-day trek to Inle Lake together with Greg(or) the Slovenian, and avid NIKON ...
Tentative of biking day
I tried to rent a bike in the morning: a beautiful mountain bike (the one of our guide for lake INLE) After 2 kms, I broke the gear system. It took I 2 hours to fix it with the help of 2 different garages. The good thing is that I took by the way a ...
First of the trek
We bought some cookies and we went to met up with the guide. After the last preparation, we left for our first day of this 3 days trek. We took at the beginning the same road that the one that I took yesterday to go to the Bamboo Buddha monastery. With ...
Trek - Day 2
... on a snake, seing it at the last second and avoiding it. It was small, black, with an oval head... maybe not poisonous, but Myanmar is known for hosting heaps of dangerous snakes. Half an hour later, a loud "puta!" was offered by Nacho: a leech had made ...
Kalaw
... from Tachileik to Heho, as it is the only allowed mean opf transportation for foreigners between the border areas and the inside of Myanmar. This is supposed to be for safety reasons, but it is believed that there are a lot of illicit drug activities ...
Trek - Day 1
... and poor areas, the novices are mostly children whose parents could not take care of. All schools having to be paid for in Myanmar, letting the children go to novicehood is often the only way to let them receive an education. Our guide and the abbot had ...