Trekking Tours
AROUND KALAW TREKKING
Day Return
(a) Kalaw - Tar Yaw - Ywa Thit (9 hours walking)
- Kalaw to Ywa Thit (2:30 walking) - Ywa Thit to Tar Yaw (00: 30 walking)
- Tar Yaw to View Point (00:45 walking) - View Point Lunch Break (1:30)
- View Point to Yae Aye Lake (1:00 walking) - Yae Aye Lake to Kalaw (2: 00 walking)
(b) Kalaw - Pain Ne Bin (5 hours walking)
- Kalaw - Pain Ne Pin (2:30 walking)
- Pain Ne Pin - Kalaw (2:30 walking)
(c) Kalaw - Pain Ne Bin - Myin Ka (9 hours walking)
- Kalaw to Pain Ne Bin (2:30 walking) - Pain Ne Bin (1:00 sightseeing)
- Pain Ne Bin to Myin Kha (3:00 walking) - Myin Kha to Kalaw (2:00 walking)
(d) Kalaw - Lu Pyin - Shar Pin - Taunggyi Chay (9 hours walking)
- Kalaw to Lu Pyin (2:30 walking) - Lu Pyin Lunch Break (1:30) - Lu Pyin to Shar Pin (1:00 Walking) - Shar Pin to Taunggyi Chay (1:00 walking) - Taunggyi Chay to Kalaw (2:00 walking)
(e) Kalaw - Myinmahtit (7 hours walking)
- Kalaw - Myinmahtit (3:00 walking) (1 hour visit to around village)
- Myinmahtit - Kalaw (3:00 walking)
(f) Kalaw - Myinmahtit (7 hours walking)
- Kalaw to Lu Pyin (2:30 walking) Lu Pyin - Myinmahtit (1:30 walking)
- Myinmahtit to Kalaw (3:00 walking)
2 Days/ 1 Night (Around Kalaw)
- Kalaw - Nyaung Gone (night stop)
- Nyaung Gone - Shwe Min Phone - Tar Yaw - Ywa Thit - Kalaw
(OR)
- Kalaw - Tar Yaw - Ywa Thit - Hin Thar Gone (night stop)
- Myin Deik - Thit Hla - Ywa Pu - Lu Pyin - Kalaw
(OR)
- Kalaw - Myinmahtit - Nawha Taung (night stop)
- Nawha Taung - Pine Ne Bin – Kalaw
3 Days/ 2 Nights (Around Kalaw)
- Kalaw - Nyaung Gone (night stop)
- Nyaung Gone - Tar Yaw - Ywa Thit - Myin Deik (night stop)
- Myin Deik - Ywa Pu - Lu Pyin - Kalaw
- (OR)
- Kalaw - Tar Yaw - View Point - Myin Dike (night Stop)
- Myin Dike - Inn Khoung - Thit Hla - Ywa Pu (night Stop)
- Ywa Pu - Lu Pyin - Myinmahtit – Kalaw
- (OR)
- Kalaw - Tar Yaw - View Point - Myin Dike (night Stop)
- Myin Dike - Inn Khoung - Thit Hla - Ywa Pu (night Stop)
- Ywa Pu - Lu Pyin - Myinmahtit - Kalaw
KALAW - INLAY TREKKING
3 Days/ 2 Nights (Kalaw - Inlay)
- Kalaw - View Point - Hin Khar Gone - Myin Dike (or) Lamine (night stop)
- Myin Dike (or) Lamine - Nan Awl - Poe Kae` - Khone Hla - Pat Tu Pauk (or) Hti Thein (night stop)
- Hti Thein - Inn Tain
(OR)
- Kalaw - View Point - Hin Khar Gone - Ywa Pu (night stop)
- Ywa Pu - Lamine - Nan Awl - Poe Kae` - Khone Hla - Pat Tu Pauk (or) Hti Thein (night stop) Hti Thein - Inn Tain
(OR)
- Kalaw - Lu Pyin - Shar Pin - Khone Hla (night stop)
- Khone Hla - Hti Thein (night stop)
- Hti Thein - Inn Tain
4 Days/ 3 Night (Kalaw - Inlay)
- Tar Yaw - View Point - Hin Khar Gone - Myin Dike (night stop)
- Myin Dike - Inn Khoung - Thit Hla - Ywa Pu - Lamine (night stop)
- Lamine - Nan Awl - Poe Kae` - Khone Hla - Pat Tu Pouk (night stop)
- Pat Tu Pouk to Inn Tain
KALAW - PINDAYA TREKKING
3 Days/ 2 Nights (Kalaw - Inlay)
- Kalaw - Pain Ne Bin - Ywa Thit Gone - Nawha Taung (night stop)
- Nawha Taung - Phong Taw - Kyar Khone - Yae Poke - Kyauk Kayar - Shan Ywa Thayat Khone - Myae Taw (night stop)
- Myae Taw to Pindaya
(OR)
- Kyouk Yo Tan - Pe Yin Taung - Myin Twin (night stop)
- Myin Twin - Paya Gone - Yazagyi (night stop)
- Yazagyi to Pindaya
KYAINGE TONG TOUR
Day 01
- Arrive at Kyainge Tong airport, welcomed by our local English speaking tour guide
- Check into hotel
- Sightseeing in Kyainge Tong
- Maha Myat Muni Pagoda, housing Mandalay Style Buddha image
- Shan Lacquer ware (Very high quality lacquer ware)
- Standing Buddha image, (the place where Kyainge Tong was founded about one thousand years ago)
- Hot spa
- Akha centre village
- R.C.M church
- Sunset on the One tree Hill, 245 years old Kanyin-byu (Diptero carpus Spp) tree.The tree was planted by Alaungmintaya, the founder of Third Myanmar Enpire
- Pottery village "Yan Gone" to observe the handicraft pots of Shan tribe
- Overnight at Hotel in Kyaing Tong
Day 02
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Morning visit to Water Buffalo Market - twice weekly market
- Then drive about 50 minutes to the trekking route.
- Trek for 1? hours
- Arrive "Ho Kyin" village, typical Akha tribe village. From here continue for another 30 minutes to Na Phi Phank village, where Lahu and Akha tribes living together
- Walk to Phata Akha village and to "Pang Ma Phai" Akha tribe village to learn more about their daily life
- Drive to Mong Zine (Khun Village) to see traditional Lahu Knives made by Lahu black smith
- On the way back to hotel visit Joe Phyu "Wa village"
- Overnight at Hotel in Kyaing Tong
Day 03
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Drive for 45 minutes to a hiking tour into the Pin Tauk area
- Visit the villages of Akha and Enn tribes (ethnic group which tourists have found particularly interesting labelling them the "Black Teeth"). They have distinctively different costumes and beliefs from the other tribes. The walk is not difficult. It takes about 4-hours to visit the villages
- Lunch at Pin Tauk water-fall
- Late afternoon, come back to Hotel
- Overnight at hotel in Kyaing Tong
Day 04
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Full day excursion to Lwe tribe villages
- Drive approximately 2 hrs to Maila, near the Chinese Border
- From there it takes a ?hours hike to Wan Nyut village, one of the Loi tribe villages.
- Before visiting the Loi tribe village, there is an old monastery, very different from all other monasteries in Burma. One hour from there is another Loi village (Wan Seng). Scenery is beautiful and hiking is not difficult
- Return to Kyainge Tong around 5PM
- Overnight at Hotel in Kyaing Tong
Day 05
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Drive for 25 minutes to Palaung tribe village (Wan Pauk). The Palaung tribe are known locally as "Silver" Palaungs. A branch of the same tribe, locally called "Gold" Palaung, lives in Northern Shan State
- Three hours hiking from there is Lahu Shi villages, kunpe-1 and kunpe-2. Lahu Shi, Black Lahu and Red Lahu are the same tribes
- Trekking through forests. Valleys and gorges
- Return to Kyainge Tong around 4 PM
Day 06
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Drive to "Akhu village" (appr. 35 minutes) 9km north-east of Kyainge Tong
- Then proceed to Loimwe (2 hour drive) 33km away from Kyainge Tong. Loimwe means "misty mountain”- at an altitude of over 1600 meters above sea level. Beautiful climate. There are many Colonial buildings and a beautiful Catholic Church. The main attraction along the way is the scenery on the ascent to Loimwe, which passes through forests, terraced rice fields
- On the way to Loimwe you will have several stops to visit different villages
- Wan Lun Shan villages, walk and explore the native village life
- HoLup Akha village where you can see the traditional Akha tribes with their colourful dresses
- Nang Cho Wa villgae and Panwai Lahu village on the left and right side of the road
- Back in Kyainge Tong late afternoon
- Overnight at hotel
Day 07
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Drive for 3 hours to Mongla, a town on the Chinese Border, 86 km away from Kyainge Tong
- Many recent developments include grand hotels & restaurants, Buddhist temple (Dway Nagara Golden Pagoda), night clubs, Casino Hall and antinarcotics museum which is cited as progress in the combined efforts of Myanmar, China and Thailand to eradicate the drug trade. Tourists can observe the burning poppy fields, the destruction of refineries and seizure of heroin shipment and weapons
Day 08
- Breakfast at your hotel
- Visit central market - from 6 to 11:00 in the morning. The market offers products from China & Thailand, and also it has local traditional clothing, antique coins and other great souvenirs
- Proceed to Naung Tong lake and the Wat Jom Kham Pagoda, where sacred hair relic of Lord Buddha is enshrined in it. It features a tall gilded stupa topped by a gold umbrella inlaid with silver, rubies, diamonds, sapphires and jade and hung with gold tinny bells
- Transfer to kyainge Tong Airport
