“Expect the unexpected” became our motto over the
next three weeks.
Kalaw (another colonial town) for a three
day trek into rural Myanmar. We packed
only absolute essentials into our day
bags (it’s amazing what you can live
without when you realise you’re going
to have to carry it for several hours a
day in hot sunshine) and headed off into
the hills with a new guide, a charming
man called Ko Kyi (pronounced Gucci!).
Ko Kyi’s English was brilliant (all our
guides were good, but the Myanmaris do
struggle with pronouncing English words.
We’d been baffled at first as to what
Indian snacks had to do with anything
until we worked out that Sin Bo was
saying ‘pagodas’ not ‘pakoras’!).
There’s nothing quite like walking to
slow down the pace and get a real feel
for a place and the first day took us
through light forest, where w RvW&R