Trekking
We started our trek just outside of Kalaw in a small village. We hiked for a bit and then stopped in a small village in which ladies were making scarves for the winter. It looked to me that their main source of income was harvesting spicy chile. We continued for another few hours through some small villages and a bridge that looked like it would break to our lunch stop. We had lunch in a small hut, but it was some of the best food we could have had. After I took a nap we continued on a rather long hike up the mountain. We arrived in our destination in the mid afternoon and we stayed in a local home. This was so much fun because we actually got to live just like the locals. They cooked us dinner and breakfast over and open fire in their kitchen. It was New Years Eve, so we celebrated with a few beers over the campfire and were in bed before 9 at night.
The next morning we woke up and trekked through some more villages and to a road they were building. Daniel had gotten sick so he hopped on a motorcycle to our destination point at Inle Lake. We caught up to him a couple hours later as he was enjoying a beer by the water. Now it was time for the famous Inle Lake boat ride:
