Leg-rowing fishing boats, blue crystal water merging with deep blue sky, quaint workshops and floating gardens, you are at the Inle Lake of Myanmar.
Every tourist wishes for a boat trip on this beautiful lake and what they see always exceeds imagination.
Despite the weather in other areas, the Lake is mostly quite pleasant for hanging around.
Official data mentions that the lake is about 116 - 120sq km, yet it hardly defines the lake’s boundary due to the high water level and thick aquatic plants growing around the shore.
A boat trip here is a great leisure to the souls and eyes, beside unique leg-rowing boats, you will be surprised by lively colors – blue, pink, green, purple - the lakemen use to paint their houses and boats.
Chatting with the locals at their weekly markets, pagodas or workshops of silk, cigarettes, blacksmithware and silverware is such a pleasure, when they openly tell you about their lives and the traditional way of fishing or planting vegetables without chemicals.
To the Southwest of Inle, you will arrive at Indein, a great hub of hill trekking.
Should you feel that traveling is all about living next to the locals and see their living, trekking from Indein to Kalaw or back will be the most excellent way.
Many families living in Indein, Kalaw and Nyaungshwe have become brilliant trekking guides, along with whom you will have a rare chance to spend several days in rural villages with local people, visiting their very ancient monastery in the forest, or admiring their gardens and textile hamlets.
More than a lake for sightseeing, Inle Lake and the surrounding are such a little world, where you can enjoy the real life of Myanmar people.
As a result, more and more tourists are rushing over this place for a trek before taking the popular boat trips.
- Food & Drink
- Travel Guide
- Activities
- Recommended Tours
1. Food & Drink
Burmese food is delicious, a cuisine that highlights local delicacies as well as Indian and Chinese influences.
In Golden Rock, which is a popular day trip destination from Yangon, its cuisine also carries strong tastes and flavors, with the tendency to have several accompaniments - be they soups, boiled vegetables, herbs or dipping sauces and pastes.
Tea leaf salad (laphet thoke)
Tea leaf salad is the most popular Myanmar food. The sour, bitter leaves are mixed with cabbage, tomatoes, nuts and peas.
Tea leaves are so important that the best tea leaves are saved for fermentation and the rest is for tea-drinking.
The dish is served in a large bowl and can be eaten as a snack, appetizer or main meal.
Mohinga
Mohinga is a typical noodle soup in Myanmar. It is comprised of fish-based broth, rice noodles and boiled egg, flavored with lime juice and dried chili to enrich the dish flavor.
It can be eaten to any time of the day or night, especially at breakfast.
Several variations of topping are available, you can choose between deep-fried crispy veggies and boiled egg.
Shan-style rice
Shan rice is squashed into a disk and served with fish and garlic oil, leek roots, raw garlic and deep-fried pork rinds.
Rice is an important ingredient in Myanmar cuisine and the dishes vary from region to region.
Shan-style noodles
Thin, flat rice noodles are served in peppery broth with marinated chicken or pork meat.
The dish is topped with chili oil and pickled veggies. This simple but pleasantly delicious dish can also be served “dry”, in which the broth comes in a separate bowl.
2. Travel Guide
Inle Lake is a 13.5 mile (21.7 km) freshwater lake in the township of Nyaungshwe in the Shan State of Myanmar.
Floating Markets, the pagodas of Indein and much more - the area around Lake Inle in Myanmar. offers many exciting attractions for nature lovers and explorers.
3. Activities
Boat trip at Inle Lake, enjoying the pass-by floating gardens of cucumber, bean and tomato, visiting and shopping at silver, silk and local cigarette workshop.
PHOTOGRAPHY TOURS
Photography tours all year round; visiting in September, when lotuses bloom; visiting in October when unique boat races take place.
TREKKING TOURS
Trekking in Kalaw hills, from two to four days, before or after the boat trip.
RELAXING
Staying at a deluxe resort on the lake for several days.
M.I.C.E. TOURS
M.I.C.E. tours, walking and biking tours.