going back home after market day. Shan State is home to many different tribes & ethnic groups with their own cultures and languages53 views
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walking through the town of Nyaung Shwe at dawn. already lost of people around, everyone is going to Inle Lake for the festival53 views
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Inle Lake filling up with boatloads of people. thousands of people & the many tribes of Shan State come for pilgrimage at this time (the town of Nyaung Shwe was packed for the festival with fairs, food stalls - excitement was in the air everywhere)53 views
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the town of Kalaw. it's an old colonial British hillstation, about 4500 ft above sea-level. the temperature's nice and cool, and its a quiet and charming little place52 views
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lunch at a small charming Nepalese restaurant in Kalaw. we ordered a bottle of local "wine"51 views
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Chuck & I at the hotel overlooking Kalaw51 views
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hmm, which way is Bangladesh from here?51 views
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chuck sitting in the car we had rented while i'm taking photos51 views
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women lined up on the roadside to collect alms, just before entering Inle51 views
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as foreigners, we had to pay a special fee to enter the Inle area51 views
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Intha fisherman on Inle lake rowing standing up with one leg51 views
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local transportation with a tractor engine50 views
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we were on our boat on Inle Lake at 5 am. this day was the culmination of the Phaung Daw U festival, which takes place here over a period of 20 days, and is the biggest festival of the year in Shan State50 views
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the leg-rowing boat competition has started. the Intha men (who live on Inle Lake) row standing up, with one leg. each of the procession boats has people playing music, drumming, singing while the rowers row away in unison with their legs50 views
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birds all hanging out50 views
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walking around hilly terrain with baby strapped in front, big basket of goods in the back and an umbrella in your free hand. in the US you'd probably be reported to child welfare agencies for "endangering" your baby like this49 views
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men working in the hilly plateau while a train passes by49 views
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here comes the barge that everyone's been waiting for. shaped like a mythical bird, it's carrying 4 buddha images from the 12th century (except over the years, devotees have been plastering them with gold leaf so they're shapeless lumps now)49 views
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doing laundry. there are many of these villages on the lake. since the lake isn't deep (although it's big), houses are built on stilts and people have floating vegetable plots and gardens49 views
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all kinds of stalls had been set up on the pagoda grounds in the lake for the festival. there were thousands of tribal people here49 views
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weaving silk on Inle lake49 views
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one of the field workers smiling after our driver had given her some paan48 views
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