Insight Guides: Myanmar (Burma) by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Myanmar (Burma)
Publisher: APA
Published: 2015-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

The National Kandawgyi Gardens, Pyin U-Lwin.

Corrie Wingate/Apa Publications

Pyin U-Lwin

For anyone with a weak spot for the atmosphere of British colonial times, and others just seeking to escape the dusty misery of Mandalay’s hot season, a visit to Pyin U-Lwin (Maymyo) £ [map], in the foothills of the Shan Plateau, is a must. A two-and-a-half-hour drive by jeep takes the traveller to an elevation of 1,070 metres (3,510ft), from where there are breathtaking views of the Mandalay plain.

Pyin U-Lwin – originally “Maymyo”, or “May Town” – was named after one Colonel May, an officer in the Bengal Infantry who was posted to this hill station in 1887 in order to suppress a rebellion that flared up after the annexation of Upper Burma. At a strategically important point on the road from Mandalay to Hsipaw, the town, blessed with a temperate climate, served as the summer capital for the British administration until the end of the colonial era in 1948.

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