Lashio’s most evocative sight, this small gilded stupa gleams alluringly among ridge-top trees above the town centre. It was reportedly built by Sao Hon Phan, the last Shan ‘sky king’. Mist-layered after dawn, the town looks its best from the stupa’s terrace. Walking up here takes around 20 minutes following the second lane that slopes northeast after the Kachin Baptist Church. The fastest way back down is a long steep stairway passing a large, distinctive concrete ball monument called Khabar Aye .
