Day 1: Kalaw to Pattupauk
After breakfast drive from the Kalaw hotel to Lamine, a Dan village, for ( 45 ) minutes. From here take the foot-path for two and a half hours to Pawke, a Pao village. The trail goes up and down with beautiful scenery. Passing through rice terraces, ginger farm, chili plantation and sesame field with yellow flowers at the end of Rainy season.
Lunch in Pawke village. After lunch continue the (3) hours trek to Pattupauk, a Taung Yoe village. On the way, you will have a chance to see so many crab apple trees that are used as fire-wood for cooking. It is rocky and sandy in the Pattupauk area. So people try to grow more bamboo trees for making bamboo baskets. Dinner and overnight in Pattupauk village.
Day 2: Inle Lake – Nyaung Shwe
It is less uphill and more downhill on the second day. After breakfast, walk slowly up the hill for (45) minutes or (1) hour to Kyauksu, then ( 45) minutes more to Nanyoke village. From here walk about one and a half hours to a place where we can see the view of Inle lake. For the last hour, the walking trail is a little steep down with the rock and stone.
After four and a half or five hours walk, we arrive at Tonele, an Intha village on the western shore of Inle lake. Lunch at a small restaurant in the bamboo forest near Tonele. After lunch walks ten minutes to the jetty to take the boat to your hotel in Inle Lake. It takes one and a half hours from Tonele to Nyaung Shwe, a town in the North East of the lake. Transfer back to your Nyaung Shwe or Inle lake hotels.
Tour inclusion
- Trekking tour guide
- Breakfast, Lunch & dinner at the village
- Drinking water & snow towel
- Poter fee & Luggage handling
- Boat transfer between hotel and trekking ending point
- Donation fund at the village
- Car transfer between the hotel (Kalaw area) and trekking starting point
Remark: Clients should bring (1) some extra clothes, (2) raincoat, (3) torch, (4) hat or cap, (5) sunscreen, (6) shoes and (7) small towel for bucket wash.
