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Apart from places in Nyaungshwe, there are a number of places and villages in and around Inle Lake that will make your visit to Inle quite interesting and worthwhile. You can see the way of life of Intha which are quite adept to the environment of Inle Lake, their culture and custom as well as daily life of ordinary people of Inle Lake. You should hire a boat for the whole day and should plan in advanced for the trip and make agreement with the boatman when hiring the boat. Make sure the boatman agrees to the whole trip before agreeing the boat fee.
Khaung Daing
This intha village in the north-western shore of Inle Lake is especially well known for hot springs nearby. Khaung Daing village can ……
Inleh Bo Teh (Middle of the lake Official Guest House)
The name Inleh Bo Teh means “Official Guest House in the middle of the lake”. This place used to be ….
Nga Hpe Chaung
Nga Hpe Chaung Jumping Cat Monastery, Inle, Shan State
Nga Hpe Chaung village is famous for the Kyaun Khon Kyaung (Jumping Cat Monastery) in the village. The abbot at this monastery at Nga Hpe Chaung Village trained the cats to jump through the hoop …..
Ywama Village and floating market
Ywama (meaning main village) Village is famous for its daily floating market. There are other floating markets in other villages around Inle Lake but the floating market in Ywama is the largest of all. Sadly ….
Floating market in Inle, Shan State
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Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda
Phaungdawoo Pagoda stands in front of the main boat landing in Ywama. This Pagoda in Ywama is famous among locals as well as tourists visiting Inle Lake. Considered the most sacred pagoda in the whole southern Shan State …..
Phaungdawoo Buddha images in Inle Lake
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Nam Pan Village
Village of Nam Pan is situated to the south of Ywama village. The whole village is situated on the stilts over the water, which is a traditional way of building houses …..
Inle floating gardens
Inle is famous not only for its leg rowers of boat, but also for its unique style of aquaculture. Inthas live not only on the lake; they also live off the lake. Inle Lake provides them with food – fish from the lake as well as vegetables from its famous ….
Inphaw Khone Village
The village of Inphaw Khone, situated to the west of Nampan village, is famous for its traditional weaving workshops. This village, due to its weaving industry, is a popular stopping place for tourists. The weavers, most of who are young girls, skillfully weave …..
Intein (Indein) village
West of Ywama is the Indein (Intein) Village. Indein (Intein) in Burmese means shallow lake. True to the name, the village of Indein (Intein) is situated in the shallow part of Inle Lake. The village can be accessible by boat only during rainy season and winter, and cannot be reached by boat during …..
Maing Thauk Village
On the eastern side of the Inle Lake is Maing Thauk. This village is the place of colonial era Fort Steadman whose remains now are a few crumbling gravestones near the orphanage. The village of Maing Thauk is built on both land and water, on stilts. The two halves of the villages are linked by a 450 meter long wooden bridge…..
Editor’s Note: Many of the above information has been obtained from our reference book Lonely Planet Guide to Myanmar (Burma)
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You should be careful when you visit villages and pagodas in Inle lake. The souvenir sellers are quite annoying and assertive. Once, one of my blogger friend was forced to buy a souvenir from them. She was visiting Phaungdawoo Pagoda. There are already a lot of boats docked at the pier (most of them the boats of the souvenir sellers) so their boat cannot be docked at the main pier. They had to dock to another boat and walked over other boats on the way to the pagoda. People on these boats (souvenir sellers) helped her by holding her hand. She was very thankful to them, until she was forced by them to buy a cloth from them. They open said that the reason they help is because they want to sell their clothes. Otherwise they won’t help her, they said. She was very angry and disappointed. So next time you visit, please be very careful.
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