Inle Lake filling up with boatloads of people. thousands of people & the many tribes of Shan State come for pilgrimage at this time (the town of Nyaung Shwe was packed for the festival with fairs, food stalls - excitement was in the air everywhere)45 views
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a floating church44 views
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a mangrove forest in the lake44 views
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chilling out with Myanmar beer, a long leisurely lunch by the lakeside. Yangon has many lakes, and wide tree-lined boulevards - such a green old-world city44 views
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sign in Burmese - one of the most incomprehensible scripts we've seen, all squiggles44 views
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young novice monks44 views
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one of the field workers smiling after our driver had given her some paan44 views
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a woman from the Pa-O tribe - they wear only black44 views
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riding a bullock - standing up!44 views
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we were on our boat on Inle Lake at 5 am. this day was the culmination of the Phaung Daw U festival, which takes place here over a period of 20 days, and is the biggest festival of the year in Shan State44 views
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doing laundry. there are many of these villages on the lake. since the lake isn't deep (although it's big), houses are built on stilts and people have floating vegetable plots and gardens44 views
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all kinds of stalls had been set up on the pagoda grounds in the lake for the festival. there were thousands of tribal people here44 views
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weaving silk on Inle lake44 views
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