After our wonderful experience hiking from Kalaw to Inle Lake we were already sold on Myanmar, definitely my new favourite country! And we still had some of the main tourist destinations of the country to come: Mandalay, Bagan and Yangon. Mandalay Mandalay is the second-largest city…
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Magical Myanmar part 2: Hiking from Kalaw to Inle Lake
It took 16 hours on the bus but we made it from Mawlamyine to Kalaw. Kalaw is a former British hill-station in the Shan state and a lovely small town. From here we started a 3-day hike to Inle Lake about 65km away. An unforgettable…
Magical Myanmar part 1: Hpa-An and Mawlamyine
It was finally going to happen, I was going to Myanmar (Burma)! One of the countries highest on my wish list for a very long time and of which I heard many good stories. We spent about 3 weeks in this beautiful country and were…