December 27, 2013 @ Inle Lake, Myanmar



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