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DAY 17 INLE LAKE Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch Board a long-tail boat for an insider's view of life in releases the net, and with some luck, a fish is this unique region. Community villages and farms caught. To scare the fish, so that it touches the perch over the waters on stilts and float on pads of net, a pole is used in the other hand to stir the reeds and earth. Observe the leg-rowers and visit water near the net. the local handicraft villages (silk weaving on wooden handlooms, cheroots making and a Known widely as fine craftsmen, the Intah blacksmith shop). Pass endless floating gardens excel as silversmiths, blacksmiths, carpenters where fruit and vegetables are grown. and as weavers of cotton and silk. Visit the landmark Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, 5 The farmers have also developed some sacred Buddha Images, Ngaphaechaun Monastery, interesting skills. They use floating mats woven known as the “Jumping Cat Monastery” because of dried reeds and grass covered with mud to the resident monks have trained their cats to leap grow crops. These mats are as long as 196 feet, through hoops, and the silk weaving work of art of but very narrow, so that they can be easily Inle. worked from a boat. The term gardener gets a new meaning with some Inthas towing this Around and on the lake live the Intha, one of 'land' behind them and selling off slices Burma's ethnic minorities. The Intha are skilled according to the needs of their customers. fishermen with a unique fishing technique. A conical trap made of bamboo or wood with a net Overnight: Inle Princess Resort – Private Lake inside is thrust into the water. When the fisherman View Chalet feels (with a string) a fish caught in the net, he