While traveling through Myanmar I hired a guide to take me for a three-day hike from the town of Kalaw to Inle Lake.

The hike was a wonderful experience, giving me the chance of observing countryside living and visiting several villages of different local tribes, specifically the Palaung, the Pao and the Danu.

There was no machinery at all, giving an idea of the hard-working conditions countryside living entails in Myanmar.

Last night we stayed at a local small Buddhist monastery, situated on a hill amongst bamboo trees.