Running through the city center is a rail line connecting Loikaw to Kalaw, two major tourist towns in the area.

Twenty minutes from the city center is another popular destination with tourists, Loi Maung Taung Pagoda.

[7] Furthermore, cabbage, cauliflower, potato, corn and sesame grow in abundance due to the favourable climate conditions.

Merchants from Naypyidaw, southern, and western Myanmar who wanted trade with the highland farmers and ethnic tribes in Pinlaung were required to traverse the dangerous winding roads of Elephant Mountain (Sin Taung) and cross the Paung Laung River by boat.

[8] Then, Myanmar's former government contracted P.T.Waagner-Biro Indonesia together with Supreme Group of Companies to construct an expansive steel truss suspension bridge to span the river.