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The 12h train journey from Mandalay to Hsipaw (starting at 4am!) is beautiful but exhausting. Back in India, I was happy to try once the general class. Here we choose to be close to the locals as well, taking the ordinary class: the comfort is very basic: wood banks in a very old coach whose suspensions were as bumpy as a boat in a storm! Nevertheless, the views from the train are stunning! And it drives over the Gokteik Viaduct<\/a>, the longest and oldest railway bridge in Myanmar, and when built by the British in 1903, it was the 2nd<\/sup> highest in the World!<\/p>\n

Hsipaw is the town of the Misters: Mr. Charles and Mr. Kid Guest houses, Mr. Food restaurant, etc. We first stay at Mr. Kid but use the services of Mr. Charles\u2019 team to book a 3-days trek. We are finally a group of 6: a couple of a Texan Girl and Irish guy living in Australia and another couple from France: Camille and Karen from the Alps. We spend much of the time speaking in French in our 4-people group, often behind the guide and the not so talkative US\/Irish couple.<\/p>\n

Camille is running a restaurant at his place, Aur\u00e9lien\u2019s Dad as well, so we dream about French cuisine while having always the same boring meal during these 3 days: rice and tasteless vegetables let in the water.<\/p>\n

Our guide is very young (20 years old) and defines a quite high rhythm. We stay the first night at his family\u2019s place in the mountain. A very nice experience!<\/p>\n

In the 2nd<\/sup> day, another guy from the village guides us as well. We start in some remote and narrow paths to catch a cave where a monk used to live! We enjoy the marvelous landscape all the day. The village where we sleep was a kind of improvisation of our guide: we first come very late, after dusk, and it seems the locals there never saw tourists before: the family is starring at us while preparing our bed, like in a zoo! We haven\u2019t any mattress so we just sleep the 6 of us over some blankets. The Irish neighbor is a little too loud and the blanket too thin, I prefer to sleep over the corn bags!<\/p>\n

On the way back to Hsipaw, we stop in hot springs used pretty much only by locals. Each gender has his bath.<\/p>\n

The bus ride back to Mandalay is a 6 hour journey instead of the 12h taken by the train! Once in a valley, the curves are quite narrow and the trucks very large: they manage to block completely the traffic for half an hour! Quite interesting to see this improvised organization!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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