Khaungdaing Nyaungshwe

... the Shan states so it’s not so humid anymore and I guess the lakes also cools down the area a little bit. I arrived here in the morning and didn’t do much special on the first day but there was a cool older traveller from New Zealand on same plane with me and we agreed to hire a motor boat with a driver for the next day and go see some villages on the lake shore. This village where we, and everyone else, are staying is a few kilometres away ...

Ho Pone,

There very newly lime cave and stalactites and wonderful,there no one of tourists and a few of local been ,very easy to go there if you are in le lake you can get it day return.3 Km far from Taung gyi,there you can make it two places ,the first is Kekku,and second is here Ho Pone lime cave.

... lake..,mean the small lake,

So there we have the bigger lake in here Burma,
There you can go by flight is so short and if you get taxi you will get snap shot of locals and event ceremony. Inle, Inle, Inle lake is nature and more much scenery of other part of Burma.It's settle high level on 1380 mtr,and the lake wide 17 mtr,and long 34mtr,if you have chance like a bird you can see bird eye view see lake like ...

... do a trek that would take us to Inle lake. Ahhhhh the trip in bus to Kalaw! Ten hours in a regional, broken down, noisy as hell and overly loaded bus, where instead of seats we had to seat on lousily coushined benches, overlaping one with the other because we didnt fit, with people sitting on the floor and on the roof. Sounds horrible? Now picture it driving though a bumpy, narrow and meandering dirt road.

Finally in Kalaw ...

... butterflies, hills and many people and children. It was a nice ride (no dust) even though the road was a bit bumpy. I think these bikes have more comfortable seats. Along the way an old man who spoke no English tried to talk to us. It ended up he was motioning to the very posh Inle Princess Resort. We gave him one of our bottles of water. We ended up riding to the resort gates and were offered a tour, but declined. Before ...

... met an extremely aggressive sales woman who we dubbed the Dragon Lady. She demanded that I look at all of her rooms after looking at one of them. I kindly informed her that I needed to get my bag at the other guest house and I would return if I liked her place better. She aggressively continued her hard sale and I had to shoo her off like an annoying beggar. We ended up returning to her hotel anyways since the one we had ...

... We're not sure exactly how we ended up staying here, but are we glad we did. It was like lifestyle of the rich and famous, especially as we had the entire resort to ourselves with god knows how many staff attending to our every need. The place had beautiful bungalows perched on stilts over the lake, with massive views, private terraces, antique wood carved furniture, jacuzzi tubs, etc. Each bungalow was connected by a series of docks leading across the water and to ...

... deck that see-saws along the deep worn grooves of the dusty roads. My evenings are spent at local monasteries, the teak solid-wood floors being hard to sleep on, but for no extra charge include being awoken at 6am to the chanting of the young monks just metres away on the other side of the room. Surely, there is no better alarm clock. The final afternoon, I arrive exhausted at Indein, a town near the shore of Lake Inle. Here, further ...

... all worthwhile. Though some have been restored and a few more are still undergoing restoration by craftsmen, its the vast field of unrestored ones outside the pagoda that really capture the imagination. Wandering amongst them was an eerie experience, the only sound was the tinkling of bells hanging from the tops of many of them, this combined with the melancholic feeling arising from seeing so many once venerated buildings almost sent a shiver down my spine. The next ...

... it would be processed into whiskey. In a little over two hours we got to an unknown town on the shore of Inle Lake. Our young guide negotiated a water taxi back to our town, and in another hour we were back at the Gold Star retrieving our luggage and checking in to a new room. We got some medication into Debbie, and by the evening, she had enough strength to share pizza and beer al fresco near the hotel. Over breakfast the next ...