Day 145. Kalaw - Taunggyi via Inle lake
An easy day on the bike today. It is beautifully fine and the dual carriageway is perfect. Our morning drive was 1.5 hrs and we arrived at Lake Inle. We traded the bike for a longboat and set off for a day of sightseeing. The lake itself is quite beautiful and with a background of hills looks a real picture. The lake is now a very popular tourist attraction with many villages dotted around and also in it. Innit. We saw traditional fishing going on with men in their dugouts setting nets then splashing the water with a paddle hoping scare the fish into the net. When they are setting the net they need to use two hands so to propel themselves the jam the end under their armpit then move the paddle back and forth by wrapping a leg around it. Amazing, so they are setting a net and paddling while balancing in one leg! Another really interesting thing was men collecting boatloads of weed from the lake bed. Their piles are so big and must weigh a ton. They then take the weed to...