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Inle Lake, in the west of Shan State, is the second largest lake in Myanmar. The shore and islands in the lake have small villages with houses on stilts, inhabited mainly by Intha (“sons of the lake”) people, growing vegetables on floating gardens and famous for their leg-rowing technique: standing at the stern of their flat-bottomed boats, one leg wrapped around an oar and propelling the boat with their leg. The lake is part of the township of Nyangshwe, located a few kilometres north of the lake. A boat trip goes past old villages like Indein with its crumbling stupas, impressive monasteries like Phaung Daw Oo Paya (the holiest religious site in southern Shan State), the many stupas of Aung Min Ga Lar Paya and the floating gardens of the Intha people.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Wed Dec 27, 2006
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