Myanmar Part 4

I have been stalling putting this post up, partly because there are so many pictures but mostly because I am not sure how to do justice to this part of our trip. It was amazing! Thursday morning we flew to Heho and then drove on the main highway, (which would be a backroad in America) to the jetty on Inle Lake. From there I think I will just let the pictures do the talking. This was a little monk with his lunch.

This makes herding cows easy, just ride the cow or water buffalo. After this picture we saw farmers using oxen to till their rice paddies.

Once we got to the jetty we got in a boat like this one and rode down the river to the lake.

The river was lined with homes like these, all built on stilts.


Inle Lake is famous for these fishermen. The deepest part of the lake is only 15 feet deep, and there are lots of plants growing in it. The fishermen row around looking for fish and then stick the net over the top of them. They then let the net down and slap the water with their paddle to scare the fish into the net and they can pull it out.



We even got lawn chairs and umbrellas on our boat.

This is a town built on the lake, nice power poles. The greenery is floating and lines the streets um.. waterways.




This is restaurant where we ate lunch. It was Italian restaurant built on stilts. These girls were just playing on their boat.



In places the lake has been dredged so it is not so deep and this was a rice paddy that had been built up.
Another Town on the lake with bridges connecting the clusters of buildings.

In this town the people weave. They worked in cotton, silk, and other materials but they can start from scratch and make beautiful fabric, it takes forever though.

These are the dyes for the fabric.


and part way through the dying process.









Our hotel was also built on the lake, kind of out in the middle and yes all surrounded by water. The rooms are all bamboo huts built on stilts and connected by boardwalks. Yes those are mosquito nets, but the mosquitoes were not too bad.




This was the hotel lobby, drive up by boat.



Breakfast on Inle Lake.

That is us in our bamboo hut.

Leaving the hotel.

We were in Inle Lake two days the second day was just as cool as the first so look forward to Myanmar Part 5.