Hsipaw, Shan State

Having arrived in Hsipaw, I hung around town for a couple of days and took it easy. This post is just a random assortment of 8 photos from my short stay in Hsipaw.

I met a few other travellers at the guesthouse, and spent time with them for meals and conversation. While having a beer, this guy visited our table:




Buddhist nuns walking down the street in Hsipaw:




Interesting billboard in Hsipaw:




At the market, among other things for sale, were every part of a pig. Featured here: legs and brains.






Helmets with the distinctive shape of the WWII Nazi army helmets have become hugely popular for motorcyclists in Thailand and Burma recently. A small number of them even have the Nazi swastika on them! Very strange.




Oxcarts are everywhere in Burma:




This man was leading his water buffalo through town, not sure why, but it was making an amusing face:





So those are the photos I took in Hsipaw. On February 8th, I started a very long walk in the company of three other Canadians I had met in the guesthouse. More on that fun-filled trek in the coming posts.