January 29
Really, this is an insane number of pictures for one day.
Today’s program: “Inle Lake/Nyaung Shwe. Breakfast at the hotel then go sightseeing by boat to the Intha people who mostly inhabit the lakeshores and floating villages, including a chance to see the leg-rowing fishermen, the floating gardens, built up from strips of wather hyacinth and mud and anchored to the bottom with bamboo poles. Then continue to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, a weaving village of Impawkon, and Nga Pe Chaung monastery which was built 15 years earlier than Mandalay Royal Palace. Transfer back to Golden House Hotel and overnight in Nyaung Shwe.”
Breakfast at the hotel in their back garden looking out over families doing the wash.