The first and best (for me) search for the pink-headed duck in Burma. Such a naive and romantic adventure even encountering for the first time Burma's oppresive closed culture. North of the township of Banmaw (Bhamo) we encounter the marshes, lakes and swamps that led Hume to observe, over a hundred years ago: "The pink-headed duck can be found north of Bhamo, but nowhere else in the Ayerrawaddy valley."