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| Floating village - only way to get around is via boat |
February 28, Wednesday Inle Lake, Myanmar
After our visit to the pagoda, people from our group filled 8 boats that wanted to stay for the “sunset tour” with our photographer,
Jay Dickman. On our way to the photo location, we stopped to travel through the small canals of a floating village
of about 600 people/100 families.
They had mostly bamboo houses, a few made of wood. They make their living with agriculture and
fishing – a fairly simple existence, according to our guide. The village has a monastery with 50 monks and a
school. The crops include tomatoes,
taro and other things. They farm
on floating islands – long channels of vegetation in the water with the “land” greenery tied/staked down via bamboo poles. She
said without the poles, the land would float away.
We saw lots of birds – a
flock of ibis, storks, white herons, a woodpecker and some kind of
raptor.
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| Typical bamboo house in floating village |
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| Coming home from school |
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| Some homes are wooden - water is piped into a communal tap from the mountains |
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| Bamboo house |
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| Getting through the canals can be tight |
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| Many use human power, not motors |
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| Rows of "floating land" for farming - anchored by bamboo poles |
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| Spraying recently planted tomato plants |
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| Many egrets, herons and ibis |
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| Half a dozen storks grazing in the fields |
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