Myanmar Adventure Guide by Shota

I was presented at the scene of Takin hunting on my previous trip
to Mt.Phangrum on 2004.

Actually I hired local hunter as local guide at that time.
We were continuous anteriorly with him dominant clief I expected
that we can't use this path for clients.

Suddenly local guide started to run and left us.

Nobody of our party knew the path to Mt.Phangrym except him.

We heard gunfire and he was running crossed the river
and run into the jungle from opposit bank.

It took 20 minutes to reach to river side for us and we heard 2 gunfire before
we reach the river side.

Big Takin as cow came out from jungle to opposit bank and he was sharky on his legs.

We found blook were spurting from his ches area
He fallen down with a thud after a few his steps.

All porter run up to him in order to drink his fresh blood.


Everyone show their smile.
Some porter show the bowl to store blood.

The porters drunk Takin's blood were smiling after that.
I don't know why they smile.

It was happened 2 years before.

Now some local hunter stopped to hunt wild animal due to US based
conservation group WCS's work.

Ministry of Forest in Myanmar also fohibid to hunt wild animal now days.
If they find it,people hunt it shall be punished.

local hunter also can"t sell wild animal meat at market in Putao nowdays.

Really ?


Deer we caught during this trip ,everyone are looks very happy.
Why ?


We found quite big fish in the Phangrun river.
Porters setted down baggaes and tried to catch it.


Can you see fish ? You can enlarge photo if you click it on

I was interested in that how they catch fish .
One of porters drew fishing nets from baggages.

Oh!! Good preparation!!!


Porters tried to set up fishing net

fishing net was setted up and big fish was forwarding to net slowly.
Porters were watching fish in intaking of breath.

The second fish was catched by net ,Wow

and ?

Fish swimmed through the net.
Porters started making noise and pull in the net.

We found very big hole on the net.

As expected ,preparation was not enough .
Porter who used the net got an earful from others portes.


Net was already




one party from 7pax went for Mt.Phangrum after my trip on Dec.
2 of them had reached to the top.
And i heard they had a chance to eat lack and big gibbons.

For good or bad , we don't have any photos for it.

I realize when I go for trekking that to eat meat means to kill animals.

The meat in super market we look is unrealistic.

I was growning up in the city .
So I was shocked I saw the scene wild animals killed and disassembled .
But when I was tried to taste it I could feel it better put more salts.

Animal became to meat.

What kind of wild animal I can meet my nest trip ?

I used heavy trekking shoes and had been slipped on riverside on my previous trekking to Mt.Phangrum on 2004.

So I purchased jungle boots at US military equipment second hand shop.
It costed US$30.

It sied 28cm.
This is OK.

But I felt it quite tight.
I thought its unbelievable American soldier wear such a small size jungle boots.
Anyway I got into jungle shoes and trekked.

My boths calcar pedis got pain less than 5 minutes I started trekking.
I glanced its on my short rest after 1 hour trek.

Oh,my God!!!
I saw beautiful deep red meat on my calcar pedis .
My calcar pedis were peeled out as 2.5 cm X 5cm

Nowander I got pain.

If I wear heavy trekking shoes ,it would be more painful.

The trekking time on that day was just 3 hours and half luckily .
and new constructed car road was enough wide.
So it was easy to trek there.

So I hired flip-flop from one of porters and I could trek the rest 3 hours
by flip-flop withut light pain.

I could not insist to back to Putao due to my painful calcar pedis.
So I cutted my jungle booth open heel of a boot for not touch to
my painful calcar pedis.


My memorial jungle boots I used for Mt.Phangrum on 2005 displayed in my office

I whoop in Karate school usually that Spirit ! Spirit! Move your body by your spirit.

I point to my staffs sometimes in office that Show your spirit.

So I could not give up this trekking and back to Putao due to my peeled painful calcar pedis.

If I have done like that ,I thought nobody follows my advice.

I just thought like that myself.

But even I cutted my jungle boots open heel of a boot for not touch to peeled
painful calcar pedis,I had to trek into jungle and cross river.

Really Painful !!!


Water level was very low on Dec. Easy to cross river on Dec

Somehow I had to trek through jungle along Phangrum river and riverside after second day on my itinerary.


Trekking the jungle along Phangrum river

It was terrible pain!!!

I was disgusted with myself.
But I was feeling my grip on trekking boots were getting poor.
So it is getting difficult for trek.

But my pain can be gone when I found wild animal foot prints .
I could run when I found something long tails like black panther
from a distance.

Because I wanted to look as soon as possible.



Stay overnight riverside. Riverside is like this.


Next article is about the animals ,fish I met during Mt.Phangrum trekking.

Sorry for readers

I stopped to write for this Blogn quite long.

I have been to Mt.Phangrum(4,200m) located on Myanmar and India border
from 20/Dec to 29/Dec on 2005.

I have been to the base camp of Mt.Phangrum on 2004.
Mt.Phangrum is the my favorite mountain among the mountains around Putao.
That shape is really nice and beautiful.

I don^t know why I had a chance to eat wild animal when I go for trekking .
This time I had a chance to take deer.

Even I was tired during trekking when I found long black tails like black panther,
rats catch small fish and swim in the river, gibbon coverred with black hairs and white hairs around eyes,my tired had gone.

I couldn't put my feelings into words, because they're so full of deep emotion
when I was reached to the top of Mt.Phangrum(4,200m) and was watching soaring mountains in Arunachael Pradesh /India besides my skin peeled calcar pedis .

I met Mt.Phangrum from the top of Mt.Phonekan(3,600m) on 2001.
It was 5 years before.

5 years has already gone.
It^s fast,very fast.

As result,I became the first foreign summiteer.
This is nothing serious.
Because nobody tried to climb Mt.Phangrum in good weather.
That is the sole reason.
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Although Government put a lot of energy into development of the PUTAO circumference as begun, and between Myitkyina and PUTAO can go in 2 nights 3 days by car was hearing the talk that a driveway was under construction exceeding Jade Mountain from PUTAO recently.

I didn't believe those construction can be finished within 2005 or 2006.
Because it was the thing of Myanmar at any rate.

It was surprised when I saw the car road under construction with Bulldozer
in Jade Mountain.

Local people said it had been driven Bulldozer itself from Myitkyina to Putao.
It took 2 weeks.

They are making completely new road.

The way was made in the place which has not only made the former mountain path large and is completely different from a former way.

We could drive until altitude 900m on the new road.
It took just 3 hours from the place we got off the car to the village
after Jade mountain.

Old path was steep & narrow & no view at all.
We have to be really carefull if we trek in the raining.

It took 5 hours when we use old mountian path from Upper Shangaung to
the village after Jade mountain.

New road is wider than old mountain path which is not used
by local people now.

We can trek more easily & get the good view for Putao by new car road which is called as it.


wided path in Jade mountain

But I thought there is not enough car in Putao that even this road could cross Jade mountain .

porters and the summit of Mt.Phangrum


It has been to Mt.Phangrumlocated India Arunachael Pradesh & Myanmar border
from 20/Dec to 29/Dec/2005.

It is the 2nd time following March, 2004.
I could reach just the base camp on my previous trip for Mt.Phangrum


With porter on the summit of Mt.Phangrum(4,265m) on 25/Dec/2005


I feel somehow that unlike the time of March, 2004 of the last time followed on the summit it is for the place of abnormal weather this year, and snow was also able to arrive at the summit extremely small comparatively comfortably this time.

Although it arrived at the summit on the morning of December 25, even in BAGAN, it rained with a heavy rain like the rainy season in Yangon on that day.

However, Mt.Phangrum sumit was fine weather surely.

The view of Myanmar seen from the summit of the Mt.Phangrum

When it went to Mt.Phanrum, there were many opportunities for many wild animals to always see.

This time also I could see the strange rat which sails and catches small fish , deer, monkeies, the tail (thing [ like ]) of black leopard, and the big fish, etc.


The deer which fell from the cliff is caught.

And some were blessed also with the opportunity to eat.

To be continued

Mt.Phangrum from the base camp

I took this photo on Apr/2004.
Unfortunatelly we had too much snow & couldn't reach to the summit.



But Mt.Phangrum has the most beautiful shape I eve seen in Myanmar.
The view from base camp is really looks like we are in Himalaya religion.

And I saw many Thakin & bear foot prints during trekking.

I met the local people who hunted Thakin.
They like to drink Thankin blood.

It was terrible scene.

They are some eagles on our heads at the base camp.

We could see the the border India/Arunachal Pradesh & Myanmar.
It was look like just snow capped mountain.

I really like to see the view from the summit.
I try the summit on Dec/2005.

Shota