Travel Day 1156 – Pyin Oo Lwin to Hsipaw, MYANMAR It would have been really great to spend more time in Pyin Oo Lwin with its colonial charm and Indian culture, but unfortunately it was already time to move on… In this case moving on meant catching a train to Hsipaw, further north-east and right […]
Botanical Garden and Horse Buggies
Travel Day 1155 – Pyin Oo Lwin, MYANMAR The exploration of Pyin Oo Lwin had been great yesterday, but besides its British colonial architecture, this small town was famous for something else… Pyin Oo Lwin was also famous for its vast botanical garden and the picturesque, classical horse buggies. In Bagan I had already seen […]
Surreal British colonial Pyin Oo Lwin
Travel Day 1154 – Mandalay to Pyin Oo Lwin, MYANMAR Visiting Shwebo had been a very special experience, but arriving in the British colonial hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin simply felt outlandish and surreal… After my extremely nice lunch invitation yesterday in Shwebo, I had left town on the last bus departing for Mandalay. While […]