a trip to inle lake
myanmar is not famous for fast wifi. my hotels 'free wifi' is a 56 modem. my browser recognize the bmp as 'no connection with server'...welcome tosouth east asia... :)
A taxi such drop us in inle lake...but the driver was told to drop us ome 30-50 km before...at a far away hotel...we insisted of getting to the lake...
The driver has some karaoke...onthe screen...
Many trucks were about to fall...over loaded...
Some monastery up oin the mountain...
The driver blowing the horn every minute...
And picking up locals who also were heading our way...
They were also restoring the roads at many places...that was good...the road conditions were not "tip top"...
More people to be picked up...
And dropped off...
Some song was played...that was a rip of the old coca cola song...or the opposite...
More people joining...
Omg,,,i reated a local with canides...she ust threw the trash out the window...
This kind of plastic paper...no wonder parts of south east asia is so dirty when the locals treat the nature as a trash can :S
Now all I see is trash..along the roads...
And somestrange duck boat...
More coca cola song...
And mountain in the horizon...
Omg..we are advancing to the mountain "high land"...
And we also got some flowers from some guy at the check point...
"entrance fee"...for foreingers...
But finally arrived...I heard that "inle" is a warp of the word "lein", which is a river in germany that is said to be equaly beatiful...
Tourist spot...many hotels...
But a pretty peaceful town...
And many locals who want to sell their boat service...
Somce truck trying to get out from a narrow T intersection...
And many tomatoes...from the floating gardens in inle lake...
And here is the river...someone blocked the road so its not possible to walk to the lake..as usual they want to keep it limited for taxi service..so that they can earn more money...
This guy offered 15USD for his service..
When we arrived a lady told us 35USD...not sure if her english was good or if she just teid to rip us off...but i got irritated and decided to go for the cheapest...
Omg a trashcan...I like...
Some houses has nice design here...
1usd is somcetimrs 960 myanmar money, sometimes 1000...many times its cheaper to use USD due to that the stores count it as 1000myanmar=1USD...
The cisty center...
And some cool designed stairs..."traditinal stairs" i was told...
And also the menu was interesting...
They had discount onmandalay beer...
Some local fish...
And the sun was setting...
I wanted to find a cashe today...
Omg...inlines field..pretty fun...
The lady who was in house arrest, and some other guy...many ppl have their pics on the wall...
This is where I stay...
Cool elephant on some doors...
The fake Wifi place...
I spent 2 hours trying to figur out their wifi, before I went to their kitchen and found their wifi hotspot wasnt working...
Next day...time to hit the lake...
Omg...harpune...illegal in the rest of the world...almost...
Not sure if he caught anything...
But it looked like something was onthe hook...
Some other guy doing the same...
And some trash in the river..as usual...
Many boats heading out to the lake..andmany boats returning...
This wasa the driver..he only charged 13 USD....probably ripping us off...but still the cheapest I could find...
Other tourists...
Here he comes...
Interesting engine...
More tourists...
And of we go...
here is the furthest you can walk, trying to arrive to the lake...
Omg...our boat was faster than many other boats...
And after some 3-5km we reached the lake...
I heard their fish net (A round one) is uniqie...but i also heard that they put out fake fishermen for the sake of the tourists....
Omg...clouds looking like the intro to "the simpsons":..
Many houses near the lake...
And people hitting the water with some log...they called that fishing as well...
Some chicken on the pole...
And monastery...
This was the first site...
They pretty much look all the same...
Money money..."if you want to be rich, start a religion"...
In taiwan they sell fake money, in tibet they sell butter, here they sell "gold leaf" for the religous to donate...
The lake seemed pretty big...
only men can access this part...
The river seemed connected withanother river....
And the market is only open today...among all the days of the week..I was told...
But it wasnt that special...
Some medicine...
And artefakts...
Andmunks buying meat...is that ok?
Lets continue...
This reminded me a little of bangkok...some tuk-tuk driver who dropped u off some stores...at this place they made clothes...
From some lotus flower...
They chopped it of and got some thread out of it...
And later onthey made textile...
And the coloured it...
And ofcourse they had a hugestore...
And accepted mastercard...
By somereasonI felt that these things were not made here...maybe madeina factory...
But their image was that it was hand made...
Next store was a silver smith...
It felt that they started to work, just cus entered...
Someother tourists...
ALso accepting card...
Nice place...I wanna build some hut like this home in sweden...
They change the poles when they get old...not sure how they quantify it...
This was a stop that we asked for...
Omg..some lady tried to sell things from her boat...
They had interesting things...just like in the market...
And bananas...
This is rings that ladieswearina regionsouthofinle lake...
Pretty heavy...
Their necks are pretty long...
The ping area in the middle is where these ladies come from...
Omg...eapongs...just like gurkhas, butnot that boomerang shaped...
It felt like htese girlsworked here just so people can take pictures...
And some souvenirs...
Omg...like girafe...
After 20 years they have 20 rings...
They had nice earings at this place...
And the same buddha statues as I got as a kid at the Mongolian Barbeque in Gothenbrgs, packhusplatsen...
Omg...i strechet out my neck pretty far I think...
Next stop...a cat temple...and ofcourse souvenir shops nearby...
Many cats...pretty cute...
Not sure why, but I think its a tradition that the munks handle cats...
Some were very small...
And some religious things in the middle of the temple...
And the history of buddhism...
Many tourists came here only for the cats...
The temple loked like a djungle hut...
Nesxt stop a floating garden...
Mostly tomatoes were planted here...
When harvesting one needs a boat...
Later on we headed back to the city...
Where they repared the road...
Omg...garbage in the river...
And some rum...or something...many people were selling this red liquid...
Creeks everywhere...
This was the next goal...a munk monastery...
Omg...bananas...
It was open..but no munk here..."come back tomorrow, he is not here..." they told me...NO WAY i thought...since my bus were about to leave insomehours...
Luckily the munk came...after some hour...
Omg...nice plave...
He showed us some picutures...on how the lake use to look like...I guess global warmning and impact of humans affected the lake, and formed it as it looks today...
Healso showed memany visitors...
And gave me his address so that I cansend him a postcard...
Omg...he evenhad a business card...so prefessional...
He also inisted that we should take a picutre of him...
And he feeded me with bananas...
And showedsome geocache pitures...
It was a pretty cool cache...on the desk near buddha...
So clever...this guy gets visitors from all over the world...and practice his english when ppl comes...several hundred foreingers finds thisremote monastery...due to this...
A brown box...who knew...?
With nice view over the valley...
And fragile decorations...
His buddhist flags were also special...not like in Buthan, nepal or tibet...
He was a really funny guy...
Liked to joke and imitate things...
He also let nearby farmers store rice in the entrance floor of his house...
A must visit if you are near inle lake...
More construction work...
And some school kids finishing school for the day...
People at the hostel were working by cleaning the fence...
We were directed to a cab,to catch the bus...heading to yangon...
Nice south east asia feeling here...
Omg...no helmet...just like the taiwanese east and south coast...
A map over middle myanmar...and some famous sites...
A blur pic of some lady sreaming religous words inthe bus for some hours...
And a nice train bridge...
We stopped many times...some other foreingers got a much nicer bus...i guess the travel agency wanted toearnmoremoney so thechargd a "nice bus" -price but gave us a crappy bus...some people were kicking in luggage in the buttom, to be able to transport more things...
I like to go by bus inthe night...
Omg...scania office...
Later in yangon ariport I found this owl...I think my parents has one at home...
I also had somelocal food at the airport...
pretty expensive for beeing in myanmar...but i guess thats common for an airport...
Interesting "Test flight"...I wonder where that plane is heading...
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