Adventure Kayaking in Kayin State

Kayaking through flooded rice paddies and hiking along quite jungle trails, this soft adventure tour takes you on a remarkable journey to experience rural life with the Kayin ethnic minority people.

Join us on a soft adventure tour to learn about the lifestyle of the Kayin people, a national minority group in Myanmar. Also known as the Karen, these people from Kayin State are mostly subsistence farmers that live in small mountain villages where they grow rice, vegetables and raise animals.

Become a PaO Person for a Day

The Pa O people, the most colorfully dressed tribal people on market day, live remotely in the hills around Inle Lake, Myanmar. Join an invigorating trek uphill to their village monastery to talk to the monks and school children. Lunch served in the village is hearty soup and salads made from their fresh garden produce with visitors getting to don the PaO traditional navy tunic or colourful orange turban–a real photo op! The afternoon return trek passes through plantations of ginger, garlic and turmeric while stopping at superb viewpoints over Inle Lake.

Live life for a day as the PaO people in their remote villages on the mountains above scenic Inle Lake.

People eating mohinga in downtown Yangon

In Myanmar, a land with more than 130 distinct ethnic groups and almost as many languages, there’s one thing that almost everybody can agree on: mohinga (fish noodle soup). Many Burmese still start their day with this rib-sticking working class staple. The unofficial national dish is served bobbing with vermicelli, fortified with ground chickpeas and laced with a subtle underlying funk from dried catfish powder. Garnishes range from hard-boiled eggs to fried crullers and chickpea fritters. It isn’t much to look at but the broth, humming with turmeric, pepper, lemongrass, ginger and other spices, is hard to resist. A squeeze of lime, a fistful of coriander and a sprinkle of chilli flakes add brightness.