Kalaw Street Scene
Kalaw is a bustling town in Shan State that the Brits used as a hill station. You have British villas, and gardens/hedges dotted along the hillsides. This is the scene looking down to where the market opens up. We had a great time just wandering around eating, drinking, buying on the rest day after the epic Kalaw hill (23km or constant UP UP UP on road that was powdery sand and rocky, being passed by large trucks and we started on the hill after already doing 100kms before lunch. I managed 10kms of the hill before deciding I was on holiday and since I had never ridden up a 1 km hill before, 10kms was enough for me!)
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