We hiked 60 kilometers from Kalaw to Inle Lake over 3 days and two nights. Our first night we stayed in a village and the next night in a monastery. Okay, stop laughing. I know you can't imagine ME in a monastery. Luckily there was a store selling beer just down the road. ;-) There was very little forest to hike through thanks to slash and burn farming. The landscape was mostly of rolling hills planted with tea, potatoes, rice, corn, peanuts, etc. At the first village we stopped in for lunch, a man with a hand swollen to twice normal size appealed to us for help as he thought Western voo-doo might be better than Eastern voo-doo. Luckily one of the people in our group was a French nurse. (Well, the French part was unfortunate.)
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