We took an eight hour bus overland from Bagan to Nyaungshwe and Inle Lake, which gave us more opportunities to see the rugged, mountainous terrain of Myanmar, and glimpses into Burmese culture. Inle lake will undoubtedly go down as the most beautiful place we visited in Myanmar. It is a huge lake which has numerous inlets on which communities have lived, and continue to live, as they had for generations. The streets are waterways, where all transportation is by boat. We passed children boating to school, and mothers paddling to pick up their children after school; vendors selling their wares on the waterways, and workers going about their day to day tasks, along with many taxis transporting tourists like ourselves. It is the land of houses built on stilts, to adapt to the water levels that
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