Pyin Oo Lwin 5 Oct to 7 Oct

This town 100 km NE of Mandalay was a former British hill station. It has an interesting architectural mix of old British style houses, modern Burmese style houses and everything in between. We had fairly easy day, starting with a ride in a horse drawn cart to the markets. This is quite a common method of transport for the locals. We wandered around the markets looking at the fruit and vegetables. Our guide explained many of them. In the afternoon walked around the very well established botanical gardens, established in 1915 by a botanist from Kew Gardens. It was quite peaceful.