Myanmar 62 Inle Lake

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Myanmar
INLE LAKE
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Inle Lake is found in the Shan State in a valley
surrounded by lush green mountains. The lake is
freshwater and is home to around 70,000 people
who mostly survive through fishing and farming
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Inle Lake, Nyaung Shwe Village
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This is Burma, wrote Rudyard Kipling. It is
quite unlike any place you know about. How right
he was more than a century later Myanmar remains
a world apart
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The Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda of Inle has five small
Buddha images that were discover in 1359 in a
cave, and by now so often covered with gold leaf
that they have lost all original features. Every
year in September, four of the five make a round
of twenty villages of Inle region with great
ceremony, carried on a golden barge crested with
a Hintha bird on its prow and escorted by a
hundred small boats. The fifth is never removed
from its shrine after 1974 when on their rounds,
the barge suddenly capsized in clear weather and
all five sank to the bottom. Only four were
recovered and when the pilgrims came back crying
their hearts out, they saw to their amazement
that the fifth was already back on the shrine,
dripping wet and with a weed clinging to the
side. The spot where the barge overturned is now
marked with a pillar with a Hintha bird at its
top.
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In Se-khong village, there is a blacksmith
workshop which produces knives and farming tools,
sold at different 5 - day markets around the
Inlay region.
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Metal work in Burma is regarded as an honourable
occupation, associated with strength, integrity
and courage. This respect is echoed in folklore
where an ancient spirit guardian called the
Mahagiri Nat, Nga Tin-de, or in English, Mr.
Handsome, is thought to be the most powerful of
all such spirits of which there are many.
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Nga Tin-de was a blacksmith of incredible
strength who was eventually killed by a jealous
king and his army. Folklore reports, He wielded
two hammers with his left hand he held a hammer
weighing 25 Viss and with his right he held an
iron hammer of 50 Viss. When Nga Tin-de worked
his smithy and rained blows against the anvil,
the whole city quaked and trembled.
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Most of the boat tours on Inle Lake stop in one
of the cheroot cigar making workshops where you
can learn about the making of Burmese cigars.
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Ywama village
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Ywama village Restaurant
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Hotels Nyaung Shwe
Ywama village
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Ywama village Pagoda
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Ywama village
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Ywama village
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Ywama village
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Ywama village
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Ywama village 5 day market
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Market scene
Thanaka
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Ywama village Fifth day market
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Ancient Aung Mingalar Pagoda Iwama
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Ywama village, canal in front of Aung Mingalar
pagoda
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Ancient Aung Mingalar Pagoda On Inle Lake
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Ywama village
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The water hyacinth, a plant not native to the
lake, also poses a major problem. It grows
rapidly, filling up the smaller streams and large
expanses of the lake, robbing native plants and
animals of nutrients and sunlight. At one time,
all boats coming into Nyaung Shwe were required
to bring in a specified amount of water hyacinth.
Over the past twenty years, large-scale use of
dredges and pumps has been employed with some
success in controlling the growth of this plant.
On a smaller scale, public awareness education
and small-scale control have also been successful.
Water hyacinth
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In addition to fishing, locals grow vegetables
and fruit in large gardens that float on the
surface of the lake. The floating garden beds are
formed by extensive manual labor.
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The farmers gather up lake-bottom weeds from the
deeper parts of the lake, bring them back in
boats and make them into floating beds in their
garden areas, anchored by bamboo poles. These
gardens rise and fall with changes in the water
level, and so are resistant to flooding.
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The constant availability of nutrient-laden water
results in these gardens being incredibly
fertile. Rice cultivation is also significant.
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
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Foisoreanu
2014
Sound Myanmar traditional song (Moe/Rain)