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Interesting Facts about Inle Lake

  Inle is a 14 miles in length and 7 miles wide lake, part of the Shan Hills, the lake is bounded by the East Sin & West Lattmongkyawe, Shwe Maye Tint, Taungkhamauk, ShweInn Tein and Shwe O Daung Mountains. It is located 2.914 feet above sea level. According to geologists, Inle Lake is a dissolved lake formed by the melting of limestone. It is believed that the lake is 200 million. The lake receives water from numerous creeks and rivers flowing from many different directions, even from different states. But unfortunately according to the UNDP & FAO’s research in 1993 the lake level is decreasing 3.5cm a year. The people that lives on the lake are called Innthar. And there are many different stories behind the origin of them. One of them is from a book called “History of Nyaung Shwe Town” written in 1920, where they mentions that the Innthar ethnicity originates from people that came from Htarvai to work for the Shan Chief, Sao Sipha, and stayed at the Nanthae Village and ...

Inle Floating Gardens

Floating Gardens at Inle Lake The floating gardens and the floating villages are definitely one of the most interesting things at Inle Lake. One of the main reasons we welcome many travellers every year. The floating gardens are home for many different types of seasonal plants: Gourd, Bitter gourd, Bell pepper, Cucumbers, Different Flowers Species, Tomato are some of them... The Inle tomatoes that grow on these gardens are very famous all over Myanmar, specially because its taste and its durability. Bamboo poles hold the floating garden together to make sure they don't go to far or end up on the bottom of the lake. Have you ever visited the floating gardens? ရေပေါ်စိုက်ခင်းများ အင်းလေးကန်ရှိ ရေပေါ်စိုက်ခင်းများ နှင့် ရေပေါ်ရွာများ သည် စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းလှသည်။ သို့အတွက်ကြောင့် ပြည်တွင်း ပြည်ပခရီးသွားဧည့်သည်များစွာ နှစ်စဉ်လာရောက်လည်ပတ်ကြသည်။ စိုက်ခင်းများမှာ ရေပေါ်တွင် ပေါလောပေါ်နေသော သဘာဝ ကျွန်းမျောများပေါ်တွင် ရာသီအလိုက် ခရမ်းချဥ်သီးများ ၊ ဗူးသီးခင်းများ ၊ ကြက်ဟင်းခါး ၊ ငရုတ်ပွ ၊...