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Pyin Oo Lwin and around

Situated on a lush plateau 65km east of Mandalay, PYIN OO LWIN sits far above the dust
of central Myanmar. At an elevation of 1070m, the town is famed for its pleasant
climate, with temperatures seldom creeping above 30˚C, even in summer. It was
established formally only in 1896, on the site of a British army camp near a small Shan
village named Pyin Oo Lwin, and renamed Maymyo, or “May Town”, after a Colonel
James May who was stationed here (the name was changed back after independence).
After the construction of the railway from Mandalay reduced the journey time from
two days in a bullock cart to a mere five hours, it developed rapidly as a hill station,
providing refuge from the heat of lower Burma. From the turn of the twentieth
century, the entire British establishment decamped here at the start of each summer,

NORTHERN MYANMAR Hkakabo Razi N
INDIA (5881m)
HIGHLIGHTS HKAKABO
Wakro RAZI
Pyin Oo Lwin Namsai NATIONAL
PARK
Gokteik Viaduct NAMDAPHA
Dibrugarh NATIONAL PARK Phongun Razi
Shan State treks (3635m)
Nanyun Putao
Ayeyarwady River trips
Fugong
Katha
HUKAUNG
Myitkyina VALLEY
TIGER RESERVE
Indawgyi Lake Mali Kha River
0 50 N’mai Kha River
kilometres Khamti Nujiang
Kohima KACHIN STATE
Wakro HTAMANTH Hpakant Ayeyarwady
Confluence
INDIA WILDLIFE Aung Myint Tha
SANCTUARY Nammilaung INDAWGYI LAKE Myitkyina
Ukhrul Sezin WILDLIFE
Chindwin River Lwemon Lonton
SANCTUARY
Imphal Homalin Indawgyi Hopin Sinbo Baoshan
Lake
SAGAING Dehong
REGION Ayeyarwady River CHINA
Moreh
Sittaung Naba Momauk
Tamu Shwegu
Katha Bhamo
Ruili
Mawlaik Kawlin Tigyaing Inywa Muse
Namhkan Cangyuan
Tagaung
Kalay
Ayeyarwady River Namtu
Kalewa Hsenwi Menglian
Hakha Chindwin River Mogok Namhsan Lashio
CHIN ALAUNGDAW Shwebo Kyaukmyaung Kyaukme Hsipaw SHAN STATE
STATE KATHAPA Hanlin Tang Yan
NATIONAL Nawnghkio Gokteik Viaduct
PARK Monywa Wet
Mandalay Wun Pyin Oo Lwin
Pakokku Naypyitaw Anisaken
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