Kalaw Travel Guide

 hydronetta Says:  Colourfully dressed Palaung is one of the 135 minority tribes of Myanmar with a turbulent history. Don't expect though that everyone in these minority villages are dressed traditionallyA more detailed reference on Palaung can be read in this website:... 

 hydronetta Says:  Some of the people in this village live in the traditional long houses: a stilt establishment long enough to house five or six families to a house. Some others live in single family dwellings. We were offered tea on the patio of one of the village’s leading citizens and... 

 hydronetta Says:  The first ones to greet us when we reached the village, were children (always smiling and hyperactive).Children though not dressed traditionally were everywhere! 

 hydronetta Says:  We were dropped off at a junction from where it iwas about a 2-hour hike up the hill on a dirt track to the Palaung village, but pleasant. As we moved up the slope, we saw many tea bushes on the almost perpendicular hillsides. Unlike Sri Lanka with endless acres of brightly... 

 hydronetta Says:  At the hills around Kalaw there are a number of villages that are accessible only by foot. This is the main reason being there: trekking to minority villages. Some of these villages are inhabited by the Palaung people, one of many ethnic groups in Myanmar, which was the only... 

 elpariente Says:  Hay muchas posibilidades de hacer trekking en Kalaw de un o varios días en las montañas de alrededor donde además de tener una vegetación y paisajes impresionantes habitan las tribus de los Palaung y los Pa-OEn los hoteles te puedes poner en contacto con los guías .Nosotros... 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  Across the Kalaw Main Street you have the big Thein Taung Paya which lies above the street.It's a long walk up there and some monks accompanied us.I took their picture and if you look very good, you'll see the city lights of Kalaw far away.But the contrast of the orange... 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  While making the trek, we visited a female monastery where we were invited inside.The monks offered us tea, didn't speak one word English but kept on smiling all the time.One of the younger 'sisters' chanted from their holy book. 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  We visited a longhouse (i.e. a house where more than one family lives) where the weaved beautiful cotton.They were very friendly but of course wanted to sell their products.Catherine had to let herself dress their traditional way....Well, it was nice but not something she'd... 

 elpariente Says:  Un restaurante muy agradable y asequible donde tomamos comida India y Shan servida siempre por alguna de las hermanas o ya también por alguna de sus hijas A very nice restaurant and resonable on price where we had Indian and Shan food,served by one of the sisters or now also... 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  We had a Mandalay Beer to wet our appetite (cheapest price here) and ordered a mutton curry and a beef curry which tasted as nice as the many side dishes (promised on an outside pancard): veggies, tomatoes, bamboo sprouts, ocra soup, green beans and spices.There was one... 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  Right in front of the Cinema is an Indian Restaurant/Tea House where you can have the most delicious pancakes with mutton. You only pay 350 Kyatt and can eat no more than 2.The tea is the best in the city.For starters, you can go out on the streets to the numerous foodstalls 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  Every morning and sometimes during the day, you see hundreds of monks collecting food and gifts in their "begging bowls" 

 chrisvandenbroucke Says:  If you've visited other travel pages of mine, you will have seen I always take pictures of toilets.Most of them are inside but this nice example was in the garden of a house.And yes, I tried it. No, it didn't fall down and I could do what I had to do.Beneath, the pigs were... 

 googoosh Says:  Kalaw is out of the way for most tourists, which meant we saw just two other tourists whilst we were here. The town is a great starting point for trecking in the mountains and has an enormous market most days. It's a photographers dream destination. This would be the place I...