{"id":18416,"date":"2014-02-23T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/pandaw-newbuild-kha-byoo-to-cruise-chindwin-river-in-burma\/"},"modified":"2014-02-23T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T07:06:00","slug":"pandaw-newbuild-kha-byoo-to-cruise-chindwin-river-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/02\/pandaw-newbuild-kha-byoo-to-cruise-chindwin-river-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandaw newbuild Kha Byoo to cruise Chindwin River in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span>#expeditioncruising <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/t1\/1779214_737885012898601_1052995095_n.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/t1\/1779214_737885012898601_1052995095_n.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new river recce vessel begins construction in Rangoon this week and will enter service at the end of the year with Pandaw River Cruises, the company said in a statement<\/p>\n<p>The Kha Byoo, drawing just 75cm of water, will join the Kalay on the Chindwin River between Monywa and Homalin on the same seven night routing and schedule. \u201cThe Kha Byoo can be booked back-to-back with the Kindat on our Mandalay to Bhamo routing on the Upper Irrawaddy,\u201d Pandaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chindwin, up till now only accessible by larger ships in the monsoon, can be explored year round on a small ship like the Kha Byoo. This has to be the loveliest river in Asia with a varied landscape and many exciting river features including gorges and whirlpools set amidst jungles, forests and high mountains,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n<p>There is a rich cultural life in the Upper Chindwin valley with delightful old colonial towns like Mawlaik, or bustling India border towns like Kalaywa. Homalin is the capital of Burmese Nagaland. Some of the oldest teak carved monasteries may be found around the ancient royal town of Mingkin<\/p>\n<p>At 40 metres long with only ten cabins, Kha Byoo is essentially an enlarged version of the Kalay. The design shares the same features including an owner\u2019s state room on the upper deck. \u201cThe other nine cabins have louvred French windows that open to the promenades on either side of the ship so they are very light and airy and much larger than the traditional Pandaw cabin. There is an indoor bar\u2014dining area but many passengers will choose to live and dine on deck outside.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#expeditioncruising A new river recce vessel begins construction in Rangoon this week and will enter service at the end of the year with Pandaw River Cruises, the company said in a statement The Kha Byoo, drawing just 75cm of water, will join the Kalay on the Chindwin River between Monywa and Homalin on the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandaw-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}