Fishing Escape Route

Inle Lake with its 22 km long and its width 11 km allows for different ethnic groups that live in shallow shores filled with water hyacinths and swampy rice fields. Most villages are built on stilts and the inhabitants make their living from fishing, agriculture, the making of silk, gold and daily markets which rotate throughout the different villages of the lake where the tribes go to sell their products and handicrafts accessed through the intrinsic and extensive network of canals linking its inner islands and peninsulas.
On a day trip aboard one of the elongated canoes equipped with huge engines of lawn mowers that are used as transport to ply its banks, it is easy to get an idea of ​​its extent and appreciate the lifestyle of these people Above all include images of people who make their living directly from the lake, so we see algae collected from the bottom, marisquean on its banks, the beating of the water with oars large catches being trapped in huge seine nets, although one of the most characteristic and bucolic images of this lake is to see the fishermen of the tribe Intha manipulate their huge wicker baskets of bamboo conical shaped pot and simultaneously push their flat-bottomed canoe with his staff and characteristic shape paddling, standing in the stern holding back with one leg and the other around the oar with which the boat moving. This strange circus balance technique allowed to have hands free to throw their gear in the art of fishing.
Apart from the busy morning market is the best opportunity that is the best opportunity to see most of ethnicities together and differentiate their main hues, the canoe trip takes in different channels and passages between stilt houses and plantations on looms stopping to appreciate its careful confection , goldsmiths and their management in the art of minerals and precious stones, the floating gardens where they grow and the temples and monasteries where they practice Buddhism. A fun and entertaining which is an attractive alternative to see and experience first hand the lifestyle of these people from the center of the country.

Practical Data

The people of the backpackers is Nyaungshwe which is about 3 km in the north end of lake. It is the town that offers more services and offers budget accommodation apart here is where most trips out on the lake. The AQUARIUS INN is the best choice in value, worth $ 15 double with all basic amenities. The options of staying on the lake are a bit expensive, since you can only stay in resorts or hotels expensive (of course is totally banned by the government throughout the country for a foreigner staying in a local house, eg, stilts .) Anyway if you want to give a luxury any cabin overlooking the lake does not drop below $ 60 the night, hopin HOTEL cottages in the nearby town of Kaung Daing are an option with pleasure If you go to Mandalay Inle Lake as we did the best option is to fly from Heho to Mandalay for $ 50 (45 min) and I shun the bus for 14 hours only covers the 340 km of bumpy road bad and separating the two sites.