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Highlights

1 Pyin Oo Lwin With its horse-drawn carriages 4 Ayeyarwady River trips Float past waterside
and strawberry fields, colonial hill station spirit pagodas and watch for dolphins on Myanmar’s
lives on in British Burma’s former summer most important river. See box, p.334
capital. See p.314
5 Katha Hunt down locations from George
2 Gokteik Viaduct A century after its Orwell’s novel Burmese Days in this quaint
construction, trains still cross this riverside town. See p.337
latticework bridge at a crawl on one of 6 Myitkyina Time your visit to Kachin State’s
Myanmar’s incomparable rail journeys. capital to coincide with one of its colourful
See p.320
festivals, or console yourself with a Kachin feast
3 Shan State treks Hike across hillsides lined if you miss them. See p.346
with tea plantations and stay in remote 7 Indawgyi Lake Kayak to the beautiful Shwe
Palaung villages around Hsipaw and Kyaukme. Myitzu Pagoda, or hike in the forested hills to the
See p.321 & p.327
east of Myanmar’s placid largest lake. See p.351

HIGHLIGHTS ARE MARKED ON THE MAP ON P.314

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