Inle Lake, Myanmar

We took an eight hour taxi ride to Inle Lake from Bagan.  We left at 9 pm.  It was the craziest ride.  It was a straight shot on one street that twisted up and down a mountain.  At 3 am, the belt that goes around the a/c and the power steering broke.  We were stopped on the side of the road for 30 minutes but our driver was eventually able to fix it.  We arrived at Inle Lake around 5 am the next morning.

After checking in our hotel that was located on the lake, we had a quick breakfast and then set off.  You had to hire what was basically a taxi boat to get around.  We traveled throughout the lake and witnessed  first hand how the locals depended on the lake.  They bath, brush their teeth, clean their laundry, clean their animals, play, and fish in the water. 

 There were some water buffalo cooling off in the water and some kids were climbing on top of them and diving into the water.

We also got to see the long-neck women.

I loved this place. 

The next morning we went caught a plane back to Yangon and shortly thereafter we caught a flight to Bangkok.