Hopefully this is the last time I will have to post photos separately from a blog. So I will keep this one short and only cover the trip up to Inle Lake yesterday and trust that the internet will be better in Mandalay….I mean it should be, right?
Anyway, finally an earlier start! We headed out at 7A for the 1 hour drive down to Phekone to the jetty to catch our boat to take us up the river to Inle Lake. The jetty area itself was somewhat – what is that word we are using these days? – oh yes, rustic. And dirty. Yes, rustic and dirty.
But once we got underway on the river it was stunning. The weather was absolutely perfect. And riding along on narrow pathways through rice paddies on the lake was just breathtaking.
In that southern area power boats were actually rare compared to all the smaller paddle boat versions that the local farmers use to get around. Those are extremely flat and low to the water and the people crouch on the very, very end …it’s amazing.
And they live in tiny, little houses floating above the water.
And along the way we stopped at the Khaung pagoda complex…which was simply stunning in a very Siem Reep, Cambodia sort of way.
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