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Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Day Seven – Part Three: From Pindaya To “No Room At The Inn” In The Middle Of Inle Lake, 9 November 1998

Inle Lake at dusk

Three hour drive to Nyaungshwe (via Heho – school kids stop)…

Heho bullocks

Kiddies in Heho

Nyaungshwe

Cheroot leaves

…then along canal (20 minutes), then through [Inle] lake at sunset – beautiful (40 minutes)…

Boatman Tintzaw

…to Golden Island cottages, who had dumped our booking so we cunningly found Shwe Inn Tha hotel instead (smaller quieter, “better”) – found bugs and lost in one room – seemed to be winning fight in another. Dinner very good, especially the gefilte fish (curries also good).

After dinner we seemed to have beaten the bugs but the night singers and early morning boats make sure we didn’t sleep too much.

The photographs from this part of this day are pictures 27 to 49 in this Flickr album – click here or below:

01 We make loads of new friends on the road to Pindya BM_1998_J06 (11)

A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below:

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Placeholder & Links, 2 To 24 November 1998

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Day Seven – Part Two: Twixt Kalaw & Inle Lake – Countryside & Pindaya Caves, 9 November 1998

Bathers near Pindaya

Drove through beautiful countryside – more photos and pens and saw Pa’O people on the way. [Also a] Danu village –where they grow rice, etc.

…then Pindaya – photograph bathers in the lake [see headline picture] – Danu? people. Then then Pindaya caves to see 8000 images of Buddha – explore caves.

The singing nuns of Pindaya – on our way down Daisy made a small offering to these young nuns and they spontaneously (and unexpectedly) started singing to her

…then to umbrella factory –> Pindaya for lunch at Kyainlite Restaurant for steamed duck and wind chicken and ABC Stout at last!!!!

In those days, Daisy might look at a kitchen like this, yet still eat there

The ABC Stout saga had been run for much of our visit. I had read that this brew, which I had never tried before, had been a major thing in Burma before the Second World War and was still produced locally. I was keen to try it. Kyaw struggled to find it for us, until this place. In the end, I had to admit that it beat the stouts that I knew well – Guinness and Mackeson, only by dint of tasting more like rusty nails than its better-known counterparts. Kyaw looks a little disappointed in the above picture.

The photographs from this part of this day are pictures 01 to 26 in this Flickr album – click here or below:

01 We make loads of new friends on the road to Pindya BM_1998_J06 (11)

A placeholder piece which shows the full itinerary and has links to the albums of all our photographs for this trip can be found by clicking here or the link below:

Journey To Burma (Myanmar) & Langkawi Via Kuala Lumpur, Placeholder & Links, 2 To 24 November 1998