{"id":32031,"date":"2020-07-27T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/pyin-oo-lwin\/"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:48:08","slug":"pyin-oo-lwin","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/asia\/myanmar\/pyin-oo-lwin","title":{"rendered":"Pyin Oo Lwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n Now a vibrant multicultural city<\/h2>\n<p>\n Not far from <strong>Mandalay<\/strong> is the town<strong> of Pyin Oo Lwin.<\/strong> Once a place where British colonials sought to cool down during their holidays, now it is a vibrant city with a multicultural population. Step into a colourful wooden carriage for a leisurely tour. At the pace of a quiet trot, you&#8217;ll pass colonial buildings, impressive villas and churches, dating back to the time when the city was still called <strong>Maymyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n Put on your walking shoes for a visit to the <strong>Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens.<\/strong> Here you can wander for hours in a lush landscaped environment with hundreds of species of flowers, plants and trees, an orchid garden, birdhouse and butterfly museum.<\/p>\n<p>\n Educational and fun is a visit to fruit growing and dairy farms. Did you know what a pineapple plant looks like? Did you expect to taste freshly prepared strawberry ice cream in Myanmar?<\/p>\n<p>\n A fascinating train journey traverses the spectacularly beautiful <strong>Shan Mountains.<\/strong> Hairpin bends and steep slopes, moaning wagons, the train is in no hurry. You can even get out and walk along from time to time. Don&#8217;t forget to breathe during the crossing of the <strong>Gokteik viaduct<\/strong>: the view over the 300 meter deep gorge is dizzying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasantly relaxing is a trip to charming Pyin Oo Lwin, a mixture of colonial Burma and modern Myanmar, with Indian and Chinese accents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":22092,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[235],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[217],"class_list":["post-32031","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-myanmar","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=32031"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=32031"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=32031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}