{"id":11079,"date":"2013-10-30T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2013-10-30T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:49:53","slug":"myanmar-trekkers-prepare-for-mt-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/30\/myanmar\/myanmar-trekkers-prepare-for-mt-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Trekkers Prepare For Mt. Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11080\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kanpalet-and-Nat-Ma-Taung-Google-Earth.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11079]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11080\" alt=\"Kanpalet and Nat Ma Taung (Google Earth)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kanpalet-and-Nat-Ma-Taung-Google-Earth.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kanpalet-and-Nat-Ma-Taung-Google-Earth.jpg 547w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kanpalet-and-Nat-Ma-Taung-Google-Earth-300x268.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kanpalet-and-Nat-Ma-Taung-Google-Earth-195x174.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kanpalet and Nat Ma Taung (Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports by sat phone that the team traveled west by jeep into Chin State from Bagan (near Mandalay), and now have reached the village of Kanpalet in the hillcounty.\u00c2\u00a0 They have a couple days to explore this area, which is inhabited by the tribes of Dai, Upu, and Ya clans.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a very remote and rugged area\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.truly a step back in time.\u00c2\u00a0 The people all do intricate facial tattooing and are known for their weaving skills.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the team will head for Mt. Victoria in Nat Ma Taung National Park\u00c2\u00a0 and then on to the town of Mindat.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At over 10,000 feet elevation, Mt Victoria is one of the most prominent mountains in southeast Asia.\u00c2\u00a0 The lower elevations are tropical forest, while the upper parts are an alpine \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sky island\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with many rare plant and animal species.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds wild!<\/p>\n<p>Eric Simonson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2013 IMG guide Jenni Fogle reports by sat phone that the team traveled west by jeep into Chin State from Bagan (near Mandalay), and now have reached the village of Kanpalet in the hillcounty.\u00c2\u00a0 They have a couple days to explore this area, which is inhabited by the tribes of Dai, Upu, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myanmar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}