Off again with our usual early start, leaving the hotel at 6:30 am. The same old scrum at the airport with all the flights leaving at about 10 minute intervals. We are old hands at the embarkation procedure by now. In case you are wondering about the title of today's entry - Heho is the name of the airport serving the Shan state area which is our destination. Every departure has been like the Berlin airlift with planes swooping in one after the other, quick turn around then zoom, zoom, zoom back into the sky. The workers either have second jobs or they sleep for the rest of the day. Landed at little Heho airport where the passengers are left to make their own way to the airport building. Baggage arrived by "Noah's Ark" method. Our guide was waiting and we were off to visit Pindaya Caves on the way (well almost) to our hotel. On the way we were treated to the Myanmar way of road building which is the original Macadam method - crush the big rocks and spread them out evenly, followed by the smaller rocks, heat the tar up in the barrels over wood fires and pour it over the rocks. Makes for a bit of a rough surface but I guess it's all you can do if you don't have a bituminous concrete batch plant. The caves were a bit bizarre. 150m long and 45m high and containing over 8,000 Buddha images of all shapes, sizes and positions. Not being Buddhists ourselves, the 1hr each way detour on the bumpy road was hardly worth it. We did get to see a paper making and paper umbrella workshop though which was interesting. Kalaw was an old "hill station" ie. a refuge from the heat of the plains for the British. It still is and the temperature overnight got down to a chilly 6oC. The hotel was established from a group of 4 old mock Tudor houses built in 1901 which were cute but a bit odd. It would have been lovely snuggling under a duvet to keep warm but the quilts provided had been short sheeted and weighed a ton so the whole night was spent squirming and pulling the covers off each other.