Google maps: Inle lake, Myanmar / Burma
Burma is beautiful but hectic and dusty, so it is so unexpected to find yourself in a peaceful and tidy place. Inle lake is not just a lake but the whole ecosystem with its indigenous people, way of living and culture. The lake might be only 2-4 meters deep or even less but it is a centre of everything here. The houses look fragile suspended over the water on wooden poles, fishermen continuously patrol the lake by leg-rowing (unique local skill) in search of the best catch, even schools, pagodas and monasteries are built on water, not to mention floating gardens - vegetable plantations with their roots freely suspended in water (delicious tomatoes). This is one of these places you hear off or watch on Discovery but somehow doubt it is real that people can live this way. They not only do but have the biggest smiles in Burma too - but this might be also thanks to no dust and milder weather here...
Burma is beautiful but hectic and dusty, so it is so unexpected to find yourself in a peaceful and tidy place. Inle lake is not just a lake but the whole ecosystem with its indigenous people, way of living and culture. The lake might be only 2-4 meters deep or even less but it is a centre of everything here. The houses look fragile suspended over the water on wooden poles, fishermen continuously patrol the lake by leg-rowing (unique local skill) in search of the best catch, even schools, pagodas and monasteries are built on water, not to mention floating gardens - vegetable plantations with their roots freely suspended in water (delicious tomatoes). This is one of these places you hear off or watch on Discovery but somehow doubt it is real that people can live this way. They not only do but have the biggest smiles in Burma too - but this might be also thanks to no dust and milder weather here...
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