Myanmar (Burma) Photo Tour 2016: Flight to Heho

While the rest of the group was off hot air ballooning this morning I got up early too and worked on my blog. While I regret the decision not to go with the rest of them I really needed this time so it worked out pretty well.

After they returned and had breakfast we transferred to the nearby airport. Airport security was a lot more "relaxed". Our stuff did get x-rayed but things were not near as stringent as at home. Sat in the waiting room for our aircraft to arrive. We were transported by bus to the aircraft. We laughed because it was a rediculously short distance. The ATR commuter plane, a twin engine turboprop was actually pretty comfortable. Especially since the flight was not near capacity. The short flight to Heho was smooth and comfortable. After arrival we found our coach and finally our luggage was brought out and loaded on the coach.

We then traveled to Kalaw and our hotel, with a stop for lunch at a really interesting restaurant/nursery. I was particularly impressed with the scale of the nursery operation. Large areas of seedling and drip irrigation systems. Got a few nice shots of the ladies in the kitchen.

Next stop was an out of the way village where we got some great photo ops. Lots of kids, folks doing interesting things and of course some monks. Pretty soon it was very common for someone in the group to sound the "monk alert". You might feel sorry for them being chased by all these foreigners with cameras, but the young monks, are really just kids and they loved it. They liked hamming it up and Nathan always made a contribution to the monastery in our behalf, so we were not taking advantage of them and there was always a senior (adult) monk on site.