Misty morning

Big Myanmar breakfast

Early start selling

7ish in the morning

Home office, see the bed and kitchen in the back

Canal to Inle Lake is busy in the morning

Soooo cold

Locals heading to the lake

Fishermen are out early too

So as the delivery guys

Inle Lake is a fashwater lake in the middle of Myanmar

The sun is out!

I love blue sky

Densely inhabited by many different tribes

Most transportation on the lake is by small boats

I am sleepy too

Morning groceries shopping

So pretty!

A local market serves most common shopping needs

Mom & baby

Cow-cart to transport goods

Local woman with a smoke

Woman shopping for groceries

Maret held daily but the location of the event rotates

Through five different sites around the lake area

Each of them hosting an itinerant market every 5th day

Chip like appetizer

Less touristy than I expect

The people of Inle Lake called Intha

Some 70,000 of them live in four cities bordering the lake

Done shopping

Looking for their *ride* to go home

Thaung Tho Market

Rocking in my new sunblock or thanakha

Even though the sun is out it is still COLD!

Glad that the weather turns better

Power supply to some of these villages on the lake

All these tourists

Continue our way south

Me & Chris

Our captain is very young, think 19 yo

Simple houses of work and woven bambook on stilts

Garage for boat

Lotus plant

The villagers are largely self-sufficient farmers

Checkpoint (or bath point) to the south lake

Hmawbe Bridge

Fun way to cross the river

Takhaung Mwetaw Pagoda

On the south bank of Inle Lake

The south lake has become available for tourists only in 2003

Pa-O guide and entrance fee to the south lake is no long needed

Pagodas in the water

A very golden Buddha housed in bling bling

Built in the 15th century with 236 stupas

FF @ Takhaung Mwetaw Pagoda

Reclining buddha

Buddha @ Takhaung Mwetaw

FF adopts a temple

Very detail temple

Golden pagoda among many stone pagoda

Who is doing laundry?

Rice whisky factory

Interesting process

Baby bathing

The lake is covered by reeds and floating plants

There are about 200 villages around the lake

Bath time for elder brother

Thai female tourists rocking in platform shoes

Taung Tho Kyaung

Sankar village

This area still remains untouched nature and atomospheres

Many people living there keeping in their own life styles

Kids in the village

Piggy greeting

Glad to know they are not adopting to tourist yet

Seem like each family in the village have a pig

Also known as underwater pagoda ruins

One new among the old

Pass by Takhaung Mwetaw Pagoda on the way back

Sunbathing

Inle narrow channel

Not sure what he is doing

Beida (water hyacinth) clogs up the smaller streams

Huts on the water

Women doing laundry

Kids bathing in the channel

On the way home from harvesting weeds in the lake

Gone fishing

Farming on the shore

Old and new Hmawbe Bridge

Getting ready for shower @ checkpoint

Lumber transport

Temple on water

Transporting ramus

Larger boats fitted with single cylinder inboard diesel engines

I think this is for drying fishing net

Pretty temple

Long stretch of channel between the south and north lake

I like this purple house

One of the 200+ villages on and around the lake

Another village on the lake

Bath time

Royal Palace Restaurant

Extended power line

Walkway to bathroom

Big boat with 20+ locals

Another tourist restaurant

Myanmar Treasure Resort

Rest area for birds

Would be cool to do a homestay on the wayer

Small bridge

Big bridge

Aung Mingalar Pagoda

The unique fish net used locally

Win Yadanar of Kayan (Padaung) Tribe

Tilted hut

Village with power and metal roof

Brushing teeth, bath, laundry are usual activities on the lake

These roofs are made of weed

The floating garden beds are formed by extensive manual labor

Lumber removed on the hills surrounding the lake

Nice reflection

A floating tomato garden on Inle Lake

Local fisherman

Distinctive rowing style standing at the stern on one leg

Wrapping the other leg around the oar

Signature leg rowing pose

From early morning to late afternoon

The net does not get into the water, how to fish?

Father and daughter

Father and son

DHL

Errrrrr

Gas station

Kyaut Phyu Gyi Pagoda

From 7:30am to 4:30pm

Overnight VIP bus to Yangon

Dinner stop

$22 USD dinner included