Burma

Top Hill Stations from Burma.

Pyin Oo Lwin

     

      

The town beagn as a military outpost established near a small shan village with two dozen household situated on the lashio-Mandalay trail between nawnghkio and mandalay.Because of its climate, it became a hill station and summer capital of British Burma. The establishment in Burma would move to maymyo during the hot season to escape from the high humidity of Rangoon.Knitting of sweater, flower gardens ,coffee plantaion are local main business of this place.There has been an influx of chienese  immigrants  in some past recent years. The city is a resort town for visitors from Myanmar's major cities during the summertime and a popular stop for tourists during the winter season.

 The beautifully created national garden and the new National Landmarks Gardens are unique.  orchid garden is planned for 2007.Today, Pyin Oo Lwin is particularly known for four centres of national economic importance. It is the centre of silkworm rearing that is known as Sericulture. The Sericulture Research Centre, near the NATIONAL KANDAWGYI BOTANICAL GARDENS, conducts three distinct roles: the intensive planting and harvesting of mulberry (leaves for the silk worms, bark for handmade paper), the rearing of the actual silkworms, and the reeling of the silk from the cocoons. It has a large research centre for INDIGENOUS PLANTS. And it has one of the country's few medicinal production facilities.In addition, Pyin Oo Lwin is the centre of the country's principal flower and vegetable production. Themostimportantflowersgrownintensivelyare chrys ASTER andGLADIOLUS, which are exported to every corner of Myanmar throughout the year. Lastly, Pyin Oo Lwin is the centre of Myanmar's rapidly growing coffee industry. A number of factories in the town process coffee beans for country-wide distribution, with a growing amount now prepared for export.