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Inle Lake is one of the most famous
places in Asia,
unfortunately or fortunately
-it
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.
Inle Lake has 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 in Inle
Lake Myanmar, Burma.
The
Gulls of Lake Inle fly overhead, many are sitting on the whitewashed
railings. The waterway widens into open water as it enters Inle 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 Inle Lake Gulls in flight follow tourist boats tossing up food into the
air.
Other
water fowl can be seen as Inle Lake is one of the three fresh water lakes in
Myanmar serving as wildlife sanctuaries for breeding of water birds and
resting places for migratory water
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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.
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The
Phaundaw Oo has been revered by
Buddhistsfor eight centuries and is
one of the principal shrines in
Myanmar.
During the 3 day Phaundaw Oo Pagoda
Festival Royal Ceremonial Barge Inle
Lake Myanmar |
The five Buddha Sculptures totally
covered with Gold Leaves |
This
resplendent and well-maintained
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 expedition
to the
Malay Peninsula. |
Leg-Rowing Intha Boat Race
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The
three-day festival held annually in
October at the end of the
Buddhist
Lent is an event of national importance. Four
of the five Buddha images are
carried on royal ceremonial barges
past other main pagodas on Inle Lake. This
religious occasion draws participants
and celebrants from all over the country
to witness not only the royal barge
procession but also the leg-rowing Intha boat races. |
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Inle Lake floating garden
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Inle Lake Preparing Floating Garden |
Inle Lake Floating Garden - Myanmar |
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 bed
with bamboo poles forming
the ‘floating |
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gardens’ 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,
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Oxcart on the road between Heho and
Inle Lake -
On the road between Heho and Inle
Lake - Myanmar
House on the road between Heho and
Inle Lake - |
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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 Inle Lake 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 Lake Inle.
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