Zayatkyi Travel Guide

 herzog63 Says:  I love the clicking sound that the looms in the big room made as the ladies worked in the same traditions of times gone by. They were so intune with what they were doing! Sadly their pay is very,very low. 

 herzog63 Says:  Some of the designs that were done on the looms were very intricate and so beautiful. Some of the designs took 2 ladies more than a week to make enough fabric for one longyi! 

 herzog63 Says:  To get between the small villages all of the locals own one of these small canoes. It would be fairly easy to find someone to take you around for a very cheap price. This house here must've been a house for workers or a house the a couple of families lived in. No cars in the... 

 herzog63 Says:  There are a few different shops that are only accessable by boat. You will be taken to one of them if you hire a boat from Naungshwe. No pressure to buy anything and they are very willing to bargain.This picture is the silver shop that we stopped at. They also have... 

 herzog63 Says:  It was very cool to watch a hunk of metal being pounded on by 5 guys that were all in synch with each other pounding away on the Red Hot hunk of steel! And of course they were barefoot with bits of the molten metal falling onto their feet! OUCH! I don't think that their... 

 herzog63 Says:  All over the lake you can see weed gatherers. It is used to build floating gardens and also to add to the size of the property. It also serves a double pupose of keeping the boating lanes clear of motor tangling weeds! 

 herzog63 Says:  Here you can see that the boat is almost finished. I got different answers on what a boat cost but somewhere between US$400 and US$600 plus the engine. 

 herzog63 Says:  These guys were using the big saw cutting these big timbers by hand. It looked like very hard work. One guy pulled from the top while the other guy pushed from the bottom. Whew!!Building a boat is quite a process as everything is done with hand tools! 

 herzog63 Says:  Pwezagon is another of the idyllic Inle Lake villages. People seemed to be in another time. They were very friendly! As we motored through their canals the older people greeted us with a Mingalaba or the kids ran out with a Hello. 

 herzog63 Says:  I don't remember the name of the Monastery but it was quite beautiful. There are a few similar Monasteries on the lake. 

 herzog63 Says:  Near the village of Kela there were several long boats gathering weeds. So there must of been more floating garden construction going on! It seems to me that some day Inle Lake will dissappear from the continued construction of Floating gardens. 

 herzog63 Says:  I saw so many very young kids rowing the boats! The parents seemed to be quite patient waiting for the little ones to row their way through the canals. It was quite cute! 

 herzog63 Says:  I really enjoyed the homes fo the area even though I didn't have an opportunity to visit any but the small children would always come running out and say Mingalba or Hello as I rode by in my boat. It was so nice to see. 

 herzog63 Says:  These floating gardens are over about 20 feet of water. When I was told that I asked my boat driver "Really"? He knew that I thought he was stretching the truth so he took one of his 12 foot long oars and stuck it into the lake all the way up to his shoulder. And he didn't...