We get up at 8.30 and come down for breakfast. The breakfast is very rich, with toast, fruit, juice, coffee and pancake. The accommodation is very clean and new. Our room has a good view. We see the monks returning to the monastery in line with the offerings they have collected early in the morning. Almost all of them are barefoot.
Buddhist monks
Here the temperature is cooler, which is partly to be welcomed. Most people do the three-day trek to Inle Lake, we have decided to do it in Shipaw. You can tell it's low season, there are hardly any tourists.
Kalaw market
We visited the market, we loved it. A network of dark corridors with hundreds of food stalls, fruit, vegetables, spices, fish, meat, vegetables, seeds, baskets... It is divided by trades. They're very ingenious. It is fascinating to see that with few resources they are able to obtain great results, for example closing plastic bags with a candle.
Kalaw market
In front of the market is Aung Chan Tha Zedi, a shiny stupa covered in gold and silver glass.
We go up to Thein Taung Paya, you have to climb some stairs to this Buddhist monastery, the view of the city is worth it.
Stairs to Thein Taung Paya
In front of the Mosque we discover another monastery the Hsu Taung Pye Paya, a set of white stupas a bit disheveled with hundreds of Buddhas precede the monastic set, it is worth a walk. We go out and coincide the exit of the school of the boys, they go all uniformed with their taper, they are very nice and happy.
Children at school
We eat in a nepali Everest restaurant , all delicious.
Hsu Taung Pye Paya Monastery
We decided to take the train tomorrow to get to Lake Inle. We walk to the train station. A beautiful place with a brick building flanked by mountains. Unfortunately there is no train until the afternoon so we decided to buy bus tickets.
We leave the station and negotiate with a tuk tuk to visit the village Myin Dike. The road and the beautiful landscape. The village is divided into two neighbourhoods, in one of them a small train station. It makes you want to get lost on all the roads. It's fantastic.
Myin Dike
On the way back to Kalaw, we bought the bus tickets at the last minute, they are closing but they have places for tomorrow at 8.30.
We had a salty pancake dinner at a street stall, delicious.
Pancacke street stall
Before we go to the hotel, a little beer.
Accommodation: Sky Motel triple room with bathroom and breakfast included (including breakfast the day before) 36.000 MMK.
Food: Everest restaurant, Nepali food 27.000 MMK 3 pax.
Tuk tuk from Kalaw to Myin Dike: 12.000 MMK
Bus ticket from Kalaw to Shwenyaung: 4,000 MMK per pax.
Dinner: 3 pancakes 2.000 MMK.
Two Myanmar beer 3.000 MMK.
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