The Pottery Village on Inle Lake in Myanmar
Inle Lake was populated with small villages, each with its own speciality. The next stop on our boat trip was the pottery village. The sign leading into the pottery village. A […]
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The Temple at the Top of the Hill (Shangri-La)
From a distance the temple on top of the hill looks like a vision of Shangri-La. Mr. Win herded us through the market and then we followed some village women up the many […]
The Weekly Market at the Village at the End of Inle Lake
The market in the village at the end of the lake was another amazing sight in this already amazing journey. Dried fish for sale at the market. Deep-fried triangle treats. […]
Arriving at the Village at the End of the Lake
We were headed towards the weekly market at a village at the end of Inle Lake and arrived to a boat traffic jam, filled with mostly locals and not tourists, just as […]
Introducing Mr. Win and his Boat Tour of Inle Lake in Myanmar
On a stroll along the lake our first evening there we were approached by several boat tour guides, and ended up choosing the most expensive one ($35) with Mr. Win. He was pretty convincing […]
The Main Market at Nyaung Shwe on Inle Lake
When the first thing I saw on our stroll around Nyaung Shwe was the food market, I was in there like a shot. We never located the food market in our three days in […]
The Monastery at the Edge of Town
The taxi that we had arranged to pick us up at the Heho Airport included a little surprise excursion into a temple at the edge of Nyaung Shwe, the main town on Inle Lake. The […]
How NOT to Fly Out of Mandalay
Myanmar doesn’t work like most countries in the world and it took us awhile to figure that out. After some bad luck with our initial hotel booking, we learned that the best way to […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Burmese Monks in the Shadows
On our way into Inle Lake in Myanmar we stopped at a monastery. The monks there were mostly children. Some were quietly studying in the shadows. But many were happily distracted, […]
Rice Wine & Green Tea on Inle Lake in Myanmar
I had originally thought that the bottles of cloudy liquid for sale contained some kind of fuel, as they were often sold next to bottles of gasoline. But on our boat trip down Inle Lake we stopped […]
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