Inle Lake... Have water will travel.

February 20, 2012

Inle Lake, located in the central eastern region of Burma is a placid body of water about 13.5 miles long and 7miles wide.  It is home to dozens of villages and a wide variety of local cultural diversity.  For the few days that I was there I stayed in the northern town of Nyaugshwe.
I had only planed to be in the area for a few days and at that I was only going to be out on the water for a day but that was cut short due to health issues that required me to instruct my driver to head back to the hotel.  For this reason the images from the lake are fewer than expected.
That said, who needs photos from the middle of the day anyway...


In the early morning light the mist lays low on the water.






















It isn't long before the tourists are racing toward the lake in their hired long boats.

Goods are transported like everything else via long boats.

Fisherman have been plying the waters the same way for hundreds of years.

Locals make there way feeding the gulls as they go.

We pass water farmers harvesting weeds from the lake bottom.

Village life on the water is much the same as on land... children go to school, crops are planted harvested and taken to market.

People have jobs in much the same way that they do everywhere, I visited a textile factory where they were making lotus cloth.

Back on land there were a few images I couldn't leave out.

A field of garlic blossoms.

Buffalo boys.

Boys playing on a wall next to the road.

A uniquely shaped paggoda. The only one of it's kind in all of Burma