Buying snow Inle Lake

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Buying snow Inle Lake

Getting there: As always in Myanmar, the easiest way to get to Inle Lake is by bus. We chose to take a day bus because the night bus drops you off in Inle Lake at 3am which just sounded terrible. For this trip we were actually in a minivan, usually about 12 people in this type of vehicle. It was a little tight but still fairly comfortable and the driver made several bathroom and food stops. Lunch: the skinniest chicken leg ever! This little cutie was next to us at our lunch stop. We also stopped for snacks and at a small market next to a rest stop where you can buy some souvenirs if you are interested. Yummy snacks. Most of the bags of chips in Myanmar have Snow White on the label. The local winery in the area of Inle Lake. We bought a bottle of their honey wine. All I can say is it tastes interesting. Local market at one of our food stops. The trip took about 10 hours so be sure to have a good book with you or some way to pass the time. You will get some nice views out the window which helps pass the time a bit. Inlay Palace Hotel: We found the nicest hotel. It is technically in the village of Nyaung Shwe just north of Inle Lake. We booked the Inlay Palace Hotel and were beyond satisfied. The rooms are lovely, they have a rooftop restaurant with a great view and the staff is amazing! One example: one night we asked for some boiled water so we could make some instant noodles for dinner saving a bit of money one night. Instead of just handing us a water boiler they actually took us up to the restaurant and made our noodles for us restaurant quality and made us some lovely tea all for free. They were happy to do it. The staff at Inlay Palace really make it the best place to stay in my opinion. The breakfast included in the room price is also excellent! The food just keeps coming. Every morning you will get eggs any style with toast, butter and jam. In addition, some days you will be brought lovely pancakes and other days you will be brought traditional Shan local ethnic group noodles with a fried egg on top. A few mornings we also got fruit and pound cake! Just enjoy it. This is the way to see it. All hotels and tour companies in the area can arrange this for you. This tour is private in a traditional boat that looks a bit like an oversized canoe with a motor in the back basically a glorified lawnmower motor. The boats are quite comfortable and come with blankets if you get chilly and umbrellas if you need relief from the sun. On your tour, first you will pass some homes built along the waterway that leads from the village to the main lake. Then you will pass through a bird sanctuary. Bird watching is a popular activity in Inle Lake if you are interested. At the mouth of the lake you will see the fishermen. Fishing is a major industry in Inle Lake. The fishermen use a combination of nets and what looks like a type of fishing basket. They balance standing on one end of their boat, often paddling with one leg to get enough power to move through the thick vegetation. There are several floating shops selling various souvenirs. The prices are the same as the markets and the vendors are happy to bargain so I recommend buying something to help the locals and for a fun experience. Weaving Here they weave silk, cotton and lotus thread. The lotus thread is made from the fibers of the pink lotus flower the white, red and purples ones do not contain fibers. It takes 4, lotus blossoms and 1 month to make a single lotus scarf. Extracting the fibers from the lotus stem. Rolling the fibers into thread. Spinning the thread into thicker, stronger thread. Floating Market You will also visit the floating market now a land market and pagoda. Here is a great place to buy some souvenirs and snacks. These are mini scallion pancakes and they are delicious! Glenn was too tall for the market. We met some lovely little kittens in the market too. We ordered tomato soup. Inle Lake is know for tomatoes which are grown in the floating gardens seen later in the afternoon. This soup was the freshest and best tomato soup I have ever had!!! Floating Gardens Inle Lake has been the victim of an invasive species of plant, the water hyacinth. It was taking over the lake until the locals found a way to use it. As the floating plants grew thickly together, they found that it was actually sturdy enough to add some dirt and then farm on these floating areas. Now they are knows for growing tomatoes, cucumbers, various other vegetables and flowers. Unfortunately, what no one tells you is that all of the trained cats died several years ago due to an illness outbreak. They have a new generation of cats at the monastery now but we could not get a straight answer of whether or not they would be trained to jump. Without the cat show we found the monastery to be a let down and really it can be skipped. Yummy snacks Most of the bags of chips in Myanmar have Snow White on the label. You will see daily life on the lake, everything on boats. During your tour you will visit several artisans. Silversmith Blacksmith Weaving Here they weave silk, cotton and lotus thread. Extracting the fibers from the lotus stem Rolling the fibers into thread Spinning the thread into thicker, stronger thread. All in all the tour was amazing and the perfect way to see and experience life at Inle Lake. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like Loading Leave a comment Cancel reply. A travel and lifestyle blog. Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed. Through Arden's Eyes. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Design a site like this with WordPress.

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Buying snow Inle Lake

Inle Lake was another interesting stop in my tour of Burma — but the core and highlights of the trip were still to come. Four Englishmen are talking about their childhood homes: One claimed to have lived in a shoebox in the middle of a road. The houses and shops and, e. What looks like grass on the shore in these pictures are mostly plants floating in about six feet of water. These ladies were harvesting flowers that had grown in those floating garden rows you can see in the background. The fishermen at Inle Lake are famous for their unusual foot-paddling technique. They balance on one foot on the far end of their flat canoe-like boats and wrap their other leg around a long wooden oar. Fishing with their traditional cone-shaped net-traps required them to see and capture their prey in the clear shallow water, so the foot-paddling kept hands free to deal with nets and fish, and allowed much better vision down into the water. Now small gas motors get them out to their fishing grounds, and nylon nets have made those cone-nets mostly obsolete, but foot-paddling is still the norm while actually out there fishing. This guy was after some sort of shrimp or crawdad. Notice that he has traps instead of nets. In the distance are some of the hydroponic farm plots in the middle of the shallow lake. Everything is done by hand on old wooden looms and other primitive equipment. The place does a unique process to make lotus flower stems into thread which the then weave into cloth. You watch every step of that being done by the few dozen ladies buzzing around the place. A few of these images are from Indein, an hour or so upriver from the lake. The place is being completely refurbished. All those elegantly-crumbling relics are being encased in concrete and plaster and painted gold. We saw this in several places all over the country. A young monk at a Shwe Yan Pyay monastery, a few miles north of the lake on the way to the airport in Heho. A few blocks from the airport was a restaurant, of sorts, which served only soup and beer, and had guys there who would give you a massage while you ate and drank. I just had the soup. We saw a handful of these ladies — from the Padaung tribe — near Inle Lake. Powered by Photocrati. This entry was posted in India and Asia , Photography , Travel. Contact or Follow: jeff at jeffcotner dot com. As this site surely implies, in the past year I've resumed one of my teen-years hobbies: photography. My skills may not have advanced much in the last 25 years, but the capabilities of modern cameras are indistinguishable from magic. You live and learn. But now I've had the pleasure of explaining in English to More Today was my first-ever mountain bike race. I even bought a one-day racing license. Ned Barnett made me do it; it gave him one more opportunity to demonstrate his biking superiority over me. The race was called 'Fat Chuck's Revenge' More I love this story. In , my dad was 'pipelining' i. My then-teenaged mother hopped in a car with her soon-to-be mother-in-law and sisters-in-law and they all headed out for More The northern Guatemala town of Flores sits on a tiny island in the middle of lake Peten Itza. The buildings today are mostly a Spanish colonial style, but underneath the 'modern' buildings and streets -- somewhere -- are the More

Buying snow Inle Lake