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Myanmar travel, Inle lake resort,
Inle lake Myanmar, golden island cottages,
Inle lake, lake Inle, Inle lake hotels,
Inle lake hotel.
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- Inle Lake is one of the most interesting
places in Asia,
unfortunately or fortunately
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depends how you look at- almost no one knows this. Inle Lake can
easily match Venice in terms of beauty and being unique and different at the
same time. There is no Palazzo but unique pagodas
and villages built on stilts right into the
lake, giving a somehow visual pleasure and
-very important- the people don't try to rip you off like the Italians do in
Venice. You maybe know the price range in Venice -ice-cream 3 scoops 12 dollars-
etc. or lousy spaghetti with a cockroach in there, so that you have some
meat etc. this is standard in Venice and Italy, luckily not at Inle
Lake Myanmar Burma.
Moving through the channel towards to lake the
Gulls of Lake Inle fly overhead, many are sitting on the whitewashed
railings. The waterway widens into open water as it enters the lake proper
about 20 minutes later.
Progress along the Inle Lake is indicated by the
white mileposts sited at regular intervals, protruding out of the Inle Lake
carrying circular red discs with the distance covered marked in miles on the
approach side and the mileage from the opposite direction shown on the
reverse side of the disc. Boats carrying locals, visitors or tourists
overtake your boat or speed past coming
from the south, creating tiny swells
in their wake and causing sprays of water to hit the people in your boat at
Lake Inle.
The Gulls follow tourist boats
tossing up food into the air.
Other water fowl can be seen as
this one of the three fresh water lakes in
Myanmar
serving as wildlife sanctuaries
for breeding of water birds and
resting places for migratory water fowl, in addition to forming the basis
for
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Together with the unceasing throng of the
faithful, we walk to the top attraction and
main sight of Inle Lake, the Phaundaw Oo
Pagoda on the canal bank.
This
pagoda houses five Buddha images so
heavily overlaid with gold leaf
placed by devotees so as to make
their original shapes
unrecognizable. These images were
brought back by King Alaungsithu in
the 12th century from a |
- Inle Lake floating garden
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Some boats are engaged in
bringing up silt, mud, weed
and other decaying
vegetation from the lake
bottom, scooping them up in
a coarse basket attached to
the end of a pole.
These are matted or woven
together and anchored to the lake |
Floating Garden Myanmar |
Floating Garden |
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bed with bamboo
poles forming the 'floatinggardens' on which tomatoes,
cabbage, cauliflower, peas,
beans, fruits and flowers
are grown. The technique
brings up to 3 time
harvesting per year. |
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Inle Lake is reachable from Yangon and Mandalay by flying to Heho,
Oxcart on the road
On the road
House on the road between Heho and
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then by road a
distance of 35 km (22 ml) to Naungshwe on the northern tip of Inle Lake (if
you are on your own you will always find a taxi at the airport). By road
from Yangon to Inle Lake it is a distance of some 660 km (400 ml) and from
Mandalay
it is about 330 km (200 ml).
By rail to Inle Lake first proceed to Heho and then motor the 35
km. From Taungyi, capital of the
Shan State it is just a 30 km (19 ml) motor
trip to Inle Lake. Naungshwe, a small town, is the main
settlement on Lake Inle. This is where to begin the Inle Lake excursion as motor
boats for hire will take the traveler around the Inle Lake to places of interest. Starting out through a straight narrow water pathway, the terminal portion
of the Nankand Canal, with cultivated land on both banks hemmed off on each
side by bamboo poles and wooden railing. A few houses on stilts, small
banana groves, some ducks, swine, and a water buffalo or two can be seen on
both sides of channe.
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Inle
Lake pictures are the
reflection
of a unique environment in a
remote corner in Asia.
Slowly this place come onto
the international tourist
radar and everyone who comes
here is mesmerized from the
totally different
environment and living of
the Intha People who row
their boats with the legs,
raise floating gardens on
the surface of the lake and
doing other things we only
can marvel. There are a
couple of excellent hotels
around the lake, but the
real thing is in the lake,
that's Golden Island
Cottages, read
more. |
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A bit further down
the southern outflow of the
Lake is the mysterious and
almost forgotten old pagoda |
Sagar Shan State Pagoda |
Every ethnic group has it's
own wear, gear and style,
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world of Sagar
often in black and very
colorful, especially at the
5 day markets
around Inle Lake. |
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The Inle Lake
leg rowers are legend, it's a miracle how
they can hold
balance in this situations as seen here in
the Inle Lake Photos and
pictures. But its not only
this famous leg rower, its the whole
situation at the Inle
lake. With the villages on stilt built into
the shallow lake up in the heights
of Shan State Myanmar, a ideal place for
great Myanmar photo shots, read
more.
Also the
monasteries are built into the water so are
several hotels and
cottages, like the "golden Island Cottages"
right in the middle of the lake.
A good base
for a Inle Lake tour are the golden
Island Cottages. Operated as a cooperative
of the Pa-O people, who offer a excellent service and
interesting trekking tours
into the hills around
to have a look into the Pa-O settlements
with great sceneries and possibilities
for excellent Inle Lake - Myanmar photo
shots.
The Inle Lake environs offer a deep insight into
living in the past, everything
is basic including the transportation on the
water buffalo and the ox-cart
under the heavy blossoms of the rain tree.
Most people have
no engine on their boats or canoes, means
everything
goes quite slow, but that's the natural pace
here in the Shan highlands. Padaung people
with the famous "long neck women"
and their brass rings. |
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