Suggested Itinerary Overview:
|
Day |
Trip /
Tour |
Transportation |
|
1 |
Fly to Kyaing Tong from (Yangon,
Mandalay or Heho) – arrive to Kyaing
Tong around 3:00pm and city tour |
Car / Flight |
| 2 |
Central Market visit
in the morning before Kyaing Tong
full day trek to Pindauk area and
Wan Pauk village visiting Akhar,
Lahu, Eng (the black teeth), and
Silver Palaung |
Car / Trek |
|
Insert one or two day more and discover
the most of what Kyaing Tong has
to offer |
|
Ext. 1 |
Full day visit
to Lwe Mwe (Loi-mwe), an old British
outpost and visit to Akhar, Lahu,
and Khun villages |
Car / Trek
|
|
Ext. 2 |
Kyaing Tong
full day trek to Hokyin area visiting
Akhar (Kaw), Lahu (Musoe) and Khun
villages |
|
|
3 |
Buffalo Market visit before Kyaing
Tong full day trek to Wanyut and
Wan Seng villages of Loi (Lwe) tribe |
Car / Trek |
|
4 |
Kyaing Tong half-day trek to Wan
Sai village of Akhu tribe – fly
back to (Yangon, Mandalay, Heho) |
Car / Flight |
Accessibility:
There are daily flights to Kyaing Tong
from Yangon, Mandalay, and Heho (Inle Lake)
on private airlines. It will take around
5-hours with 3-stops if you fly from Yangon.
It is the same if you fly from Kyaing Tong
to Yangon. The more convenient route is
to fly from Mandalay via Heho and Tachileik.
Since it takes a long time to fly from Kyaing
Tong to Yangon, it is better to fly on a
direct flight to Heho for Inle Lake. On
the other hand, Kyaing Tong sector should
not be visited at your last leg unless you
are leaving Myanmar from Thai border town
of Tachileik. Our suggestion will be like
this: - Yangon-Bagan-Mandalay-Kyaing Tong-Inle
Lake and back to Yangon or to the beach
destination. We don’t see any opportunities
to allow road travels between Taunggyi and
Kyaing Tong until 2010. The cars using for
tour services in Kyaing Tong cannot be highly
expected. Normally, there are no air-conditioned
system installed and the quality of the
vehicles is also not up to par.
Detailed Program
| Day |
Description |
| 1 |
Fly
to Kyaing Tong – afternoon tour
to In-city highlights
Fly either from Yangon, Mandalay,
or Heho by one private airline.
Arrival time is approximately 2:30pm
for most flights. Transfer to the
hotel for check-in. Then visit in
the capital of Golden Triangle including
two most oldest & impressive Lana-styled
monasteries: Wat Jom Kham & Wat
Inn; with optional visit to Mahamyatmuni
temple at the city center. Before
sunset stroll around the romantic
lake-rimmed road, dotted with teashop
and noodle houses. |
| 2 |
Keng
Tung – full day treks to Pin Tauk
(Pindauk) area (easy to moderate)
Have your breakfast at the hotel.
Visit to the main Kyaing Tong Market,
to see colorful ethnic tribes come
to exchange goods from their home
in the surrounding hills. Then,
about 45-mins drive along the scenic
valley, fringed by the hazy mountains
that separate Myanmar and Lao, and
portrayed with green carpeted farms,
quiet Khun villages, and dotted
monasteries with Lana influenced
architecture. Pindauk itself is
a Lahu settlement located in the
northeast of Keng Tung. Normally
at least two Akhar villages (Nam
Lin Mai & Nam Lin Hong) and Eng
(often referred as the “Black Teeth
People”) village of Wan Mai will
be visited. Depending on one’s interest,
Pindauk waterfalls and combination
of three Akhar villages, Buddhist,
Baptist, and Animist villages can
also be visited. On the way back
to Keng Tung, take an unpaved road
passing through several Khun villages
and scenic elevated rice fields,
to visit Wan Pauk village where
Silver Palaung lives. Return to
Keng Tung in the late afternoon
for overnight stop. |
| 3 |
Kyaing
Tong – full day treks to Wanyut
and Wan Seng villages (moderate
to hard)
Have your breakfast at the hotel.
Visit to Water Buffalo Market where
buyers and sellers stand around
seemingly doing nothing but sales
are transacted quietly. Then approximately
two hours drive on the road leading
to the Chinese border town of Mongla
passing through vast rice growing
valley, fishing ponds and several
Khun villages mingled with bamboo
forests before going uphill and
driving along ridge-road providing
stunning mountain sceneries. Leave
your car on the main road, a few
miles before Mongla to being the
exhausting but rewarding hike to
the mountain top where Wanyut village
of Loi (Lwe) people sits. Firstly,
visit to the Wanyut monastery with
interesting ethnic adventure tales,
and impressive woodworks. Then,
visit the village – a unique one
– where you could observe their
longhouses where at least 5-families
live together under one roof. Study
their centuries-old traditions and
lifestyles before continue your
trek to Wan Seng village of the
same tribe. Return to Kyaing Tong
in the late afternoon for overnight
stop. |
| 4 |
Kyaing
Tong half-day visits – fly to next
destination
Have your breakfast at the hotel.
Drive approximately 30min (9km)
on unpaved road passing through
rubber forests, Khun villages and
their beautiful Wats & spirit shrines
to Wan Sai village to see the tribe
AKHU. Return to Kyaing Tong and
continue visit to the One Tree Hill
where a lone 145-years old Kanyin-byu
(Diptero carpus Spp) tree stands,
and the Shan traditional lacquer
ware workshop - yet still visible
but fast fading lacquerware making
technique, before transfer out to
the airport and fly to next destination. |
Extra Days
in Kyaing Tong
For those who enjoy the ethnic tribes
and the feeling of being remoteness can
visit Loi-mwe or the misty mountains, a
British hill-outpost where you can trace
history amongst many of century-old colonial
buildings and a Catholic church running
an orphanage. There are also Akhar, Lahu,
and Khun Shan villages to see on the road
to Loi-mwe and its surroundings.
Another extra day can easily be spent by
visiting Hokyin area, known for major Akhar
settlements. It is possible to visit Buddhist,
Baptist, and Animists Akhar villages together
with Lahu, and the Wa (once much feared
headhunters) villages.
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