Kalaw Southern Shan State Myamar Kalaw is an interesting place with colonial style houses surrounded with cherries, pine trees, jacarandas and orchards.It is located in Southern Shan State on the Union Road from Thazi to Taunggyi highway. It derived the name from Palaung dialect Kalawk which means basin. The hill tribes Palaung , Inntha ,Danaw, Danu, Taungyoe, Pa-O and Shan live around Kalaw. My name is Rohit��