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| Yep we made it |
We were here only to catch another plane for similarly short hop to HeHo kick off point for visit to Inle Lake. This was the higher country and supposedly cooler.. It was a bit and thank goodness we arrived early in the day because the clockwork-like organisation faltered a little here. There was no sign-carrying taxi driver at the terminal and it was an hour's drive or thereabouts to get to the Hupin Hotel digs for a couple of nights.. Some gentle inquiries around the airport only elicited further confusion ... So found a type of phone booth to ring Thida our agents agent back in Yangon after many apologies we came up with a taxi only to be taken to the wrong Hupin .... In the township at the north of the lake rather than the Hupin resort on the lake. We negotiated a boat trip to the correct location and there were more apologies all round and the seven-dollar fare was eventually refunded. But the trip over to the much more up market Hupin was enjoyable and a foretaste of much longer on the water tomorrow.
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| Hupin Resort on the Lake |
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| Those long tail boats |
After lunch we were off to explore the local village.
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| Tempura vegetables and watermelon and pineapple juice |
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| Just man power to move heavy timber |
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| Drying Tofu |
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| Solar food drying |
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| The local School children learning English |
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| Making tomato boxes |
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| Not much safety gear here |
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| Unloading the tomatoes |
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| A petrol station for all those bikes |
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| The day's end Inle Lake |
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