"Inle Lake" Ana.k's photos around Inle Lake, Myanmar

A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Inle Lake, Myanmar by TravelPod blogger Ana.k titled "Inle Lake" Ana.k's travel blog entry: "I can't decide which place in Burma I liked better: Bagan, or here. Not being particularly keen on ruins, and my experience of Inle having been heightened by the trek from Kalaw, I might have to say that Inle Lake is my favorite place in Burma, if not one of my favorite destinations on this entire trip so far. An lake with no shoreline, covered along the edges by villages and monasteries on stilts, locals moving about, conducting commerce, and generally living on canoes paddled (if by men) in an interesting method using their feet, this place really is, for lack of a better word, like a modern day Atlantis. Of course, using the phrase 'modern day' to describe anything in Burma should be taken with a grain of salt, but that's how people here have lived for several generations. Our experience in this region started with the much recommended trek from a neighboring mountain town called Kalaw. The trek goes through extremely scenic Burmese mountain villages and farmland, areas inhabited by a number of different ethnic minority tribes. Originally we'd wanted to do a two-night trip, but we ended up being short on time and had to opt for the one-nighter. To cover the same amount of distance in less time, the first leg of the trek required a taxi ride over a one lane dirt road through farms and fields of yellow flowers to a resting ...