View down Nmai from Lauhkawng Panchro. "The Lauhkawng ridge divides the basin of the Chipwi Hka [river] from that of the Ngawchang Hka, and is a separating line between the monsoon forests of Burma and the temperate forests of the mountainous North East Frontier. It was a stiff climb up to the military police post of Lawkhaung, and we were caught in a very heavy rainstorm before we got there; the monsoon was indeed close behind us, dogging our footsteps. There is a considerable Maru village at Lawkhaung, almost the first we had seen, for they occupy the spurs well back from the river, and are carefully hidden; the Shans of the Irrawaddy Valley we had already left behind. Lauhkawng is about 4000 feet above sea level, and continuing the ascent the next day, we marched by a road cut in the mountain side through the forest to Peopat, keeping from 7000 to 8000 feet above sea level. The vegetation had changed bewilderingly. Gone were the familiar tattered sheets of the banana; gone too were the clumps of giant bamboo, the fig trees and graceful palms, their place usurped by the sturdier oaks, magnolias and rhododendrons of a bleaker climate." ['In Farthest Burma' Capt. F. Kingdon Ward, London, 1921, pp.25-26]
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