Myanmar Adventure Guide by Shota

The Ledo road journey has started from Myitkyina in Kachin state.
We drived to Tanai from Myitkyina.


Fermented soybeans in Tanai market


I have read 1 article about Tanai written by Japanese writer who travelled Nagaland
on foot in the raining season.
He had travelled about 3 years before.

He had described Tanai as the place of the last which can do collected
shopping by Ledo road.


Various kinds of local food in Tanai market

There were many guest house for local peole in Tanai.
And many restaurant & Karaoke,too.

Tanai was booming up from gold rush around Tanai.
Many Chinese were coming from Mainland China.

When I visitted Tanai,even daytime was noisy by Karaoke in the restaurant.
The market in Tanai was quite big.

Road conditions were quite OK as remote area of Myanmar.
Even no 4X4 could drive well.

I rememberred many pepole had said to me how bad conditions Ledo road is.

And I thought this is just normal road.
Franckly speaking ,I was going to be disappointted about Ledo road.

It's nothing special thing I can see.

That was big misunderstanding.

There is road from Ledo in India to Muse where is China & Myanmar border via Bamaw
& Myitkyina which is the capital of Kachin state in Myanmar.

This road was constructed by US army & Brith army during WW2.
It is called Burma road.

We can find many interesting historical town on Burma road.

For Exsample,Namkan where is 1 hour drive from Muse was the big Japanese army camp
during WW2.
They established Even Japanese language school there.
I met old Shan man who was former Japanese language lecture in Namkan.
His Japanese was still excellent & his life was full of interesting .

One American surgent established hospital in Namkan before WW2.
This American doctor wrote book as The Surgent in Burma.
We still can look this building in Namkan as government office.

I was surprised at the descriptions of Kaya people in this book.
Preacher order murder to his people.

Bamaw is entrance for Cane business for China.
If you can use from Myitkyina to Bamaw by boat,you can see the different view of
Ayeyarwaddy river.


Elephant is still useful around Nanyun .Especially in the raining season.
This elephant photo was taken at after we cross Tanai river

But most interesting part of Burma road is the one where is called Ledo road where is from Pansat pass to Myitkyina via Hukawng Vally

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market in Tanai where is booming up by gold rush

There are full of legend for Ledo road as former head hunter Naga tribes,Elephant move from India to Myhanmar with group called Elephant immiguration,the last palce for tiger in Myanmar,crashed US aircrafts during WW2,etc

Naga tribes pole in Shinbunyan where is 2 days distance from India border