Cigar Making

Inle Lake, Myanmar

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November 20th 2006
Inle Lake - Nyaungshwe The next stop on our Itinerary was Inle Lake via Kalaw. The fifteen hours our bus ride took from Yangon was horrible. While I was sat on my sweaty broken seat, despite my nudges I had a smelly Burmese guy drooling in his sleep on my left shoulder and to my right I had a speaker blasting out some Burmese Techno crap right down my ear making sleep for me impossible. A few ... read more

Asia » Burma » Mandalay Region » Inle Lake

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Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886) and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth wa... ... read more