Trekker Megan McCormick starts her journey in Yangon with a visit to Shwedagon Pagoda, the most revered Buddhist temple in Myanmar. Next she visits Inle Lake and then heads to the Shan Palace in the town of Hsipaw, where she uncovers a centuries-old tribal rivalry. She travels by train to Mandalay to visit the golden Mahamuni Buddha and to try her hand at puppetry, then makes her way to the Chin State and then on to Bagan, once the capital city.