Inle Lake markets

Every day there is a local market in a different place  towns around Inle Lake, to which tourists get by boats. This year, we were in two different places looking at how life goes on  in the fair, and each time it was a great pleasure to get to know the lifestyle of these people. The markets strong...

Life on Inle

Life on Inle lake is busy as ever. More than one hundred thousand Myanmar people live on the lake and of the lake. We wrote a lot on this subject in December 10, 2011. Have a look at those three entries. This time, we took a lot of pictures again, but we do not want to get you bored with them! An ...

Nyaungshwe

And again airborne! This time the local airline Air KZB took us to the place we know - Nyaungshwe, because we had been there in December 2011. The town of Nyaungshwe has a special place in our hearts, because it was our first encounter with authentic Burma, and Lake Inle for which tourists come her...

Mingun

Up the river Irrawardi we went by a rented boat (two decks for just two of us) from Mandalay to Mingun. The cruise lasted one hour. The most important pagoda there is Mingun Paya  which was to be the largest in the dawn, but the king Bodawpaya died before he finished the construction. An earthqua...

Teak Bridge U Bein

Not far from Mandalay lies Amarapura - also briefly the capital of Burma in the nineteenth century - which has an interesting tourist attraction: a wooden teak bridge U Bein. It is said that it is the longest wooden structure in the world - 1200m. It was built in the mid-nineteenth century, in orde...

Mandalay Hill

On the Mandalay Hill  we were admiring a great monastery and people working at its renewal. From the hill we could enjoy a beautiful panorama which confirmed the enormity of city with more than one million inhabitants.   We are leaving out the names of the monasteries, temples and stupas, because ...

Mandalay and its life

Mandalay on the Irrawaddy River is the second largest city in Burma. In the nineteenth century it was briefly the capital of the country. The city has about a hundred workshops making votive gold flakes. This job involves many hours of ponding a plate of gold, until it become a very thin flake. The...