Lazy morning, hanging out under a palm tree drifting and dozing in a comfy lime green hammock, gazing up at a pine tree adorned with Fushia Bougainville toutou.
Fat Chinese family arrives at hotel
How do I know? Trousers not longhi, facial features, no tanaka on their faces, Barman and Shan people tend to be of slight build.
A trip to the PO has me cycling in circles and discovering new routes around town- a town laid out by the Forest Ministry..... Like trails, only mostly paved.
I do find the main entrance to the Military School and see a few men in crisp green uniforms around town. Another shower and I'm off up the slight incline to Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens. It's Sat. so many families are having picnics, resting inder shady trees, hiking about the trails and little aviary- mostly hornbill and parakeets with the odd peacock. Im reminded we are in a temperate zone by the pansies, snapdragons, cosmos, and marigolds. The sun feels warm but the air is comfortable. A Dutch woman I met was impressed by the butterfly collection. Remembering the beauties we'd seen in Costa Rica, I headed for it. This collection is all dead, pinned neatly to boards in pretty patterns with neat labels in Burmese and English. The curator informs me its all a gift from the wealthy Japanese etymologist, a good friend of Myanmar's "communist" chairman. His words. The collection was installed in 2009.
I pedal back to return my bike and run into Andrew (British), whom I'd met in Bagan, and we went for a healthy spirolina beer.
I succumbed to the romance of taking a horse cart back to Royal Park View and hung out on the veranda with a Duthman to swap travel tales and hints before another hot shower and early to bed.
-On the road with Kathryn
Location:Pyin U Lwin
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