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Myanmar: Inle Lake

The Inle Lake is nested among high hills is a site of great beauty. It is home to the Intha people. Their villages are built in the middle of the lake. The villages are surrounded by floating gardens of very high fertility. The Intha people are famous for their technique of rowing wrapping one of the legs around the oar to relieve and free arms for fishing. The mountains around the Inle Lake are a good area for trekking to the nearby villages of different minorities.

Evening in Nyaungshwe	Intha fisherman	Intha fisherman	Leg-rowing
Intha Fisherman	Leg-rowing	Leg-rowing	Leg-rowing
Leg-rowing	Leg-rowing	Stilts hut village	Typical house
Village near the lake	At the market	At the market	At the market
Cock fighting	Cock fighting	At the market	At the market
At the market	At the market	Woman	At the market
At the market	Cows at the market	Burmese bread	At the market
At the market	At the market	Boat parking	At the market
Bamboo	Village	Making cheerots	Making cheerots
Cleaning the water ways	Woman	Washing dishes	Washing
Floating gardens	Jumping cat monastery	Boat trip impression	Woman with boat
Old monk in the mountains	In the mountains	In the mountains	Grasshopper
Inle panorama	Stilts hut	Stilts hut	Village
Buddha	New temple	Top of a temple	Buddha
Water buffalo	Child riding a water buffalo	Water buffalo	Washing clothes
Washing at the river	Washing at the river	Buddhist nuns	Nuns collecting rice
Nuns collecting rice	Nuns	Ducks on the way home	Village near the lake
At the market	Burmese woman at the market	Child	Woman selling onions
Burmese woman	Burmese mercedes	At the market	At the market
Snake	Burmese woman	My Hotel - Aung Mingalar	Monk
Heavy loaded car	Harvesting sugar cane	Farmers at the fields	At the market
At the market	Burmese woman at the market	Burmese woman