Time to say goodbye to the jewels of Bagan, and we departed for the airport in our most different taxi yet - a horse drawn cart. Cool. Next stop: Inle Lake, and immediately we met a couple of other travellers - Burak and Seb from Turkey, to share one of our most expensive taxis yet from the airport. Inle Lake had an nice relaxed feel to it - lots of life on the water. Floating villages, houses on stilts, fishermen paddling in a unique way with their leg (as in the photo), freeing up their arms to put out traps or string out nets - I cannot believe they are able to balance on one leg on the end of a canoe! We took a canoe ride through some of the smaller canals amongst the reeds and watched how local life went -children hanging out by the water, playing football, feeding pigs, mothers doing laundry and dishes, people washing themselves etc etc. Along with it though there were lots of hellos and big smiles.
We met a few travellers in our guesthouse - some of them we'd met before in other places on the road, and we all ended up going to a small pizza restaurant called Min Min's. Well, Min Min's apparently had only been open for 2 months, and Min Min himself was a modest and generous (!) man - and very proud of his new brick pizza oven!! The pasta was good and eventually, when we tried it, his pizza was great, but the main attraction were his cheap and excellent cocktails! Capirinhas and Mohitos were just 80 cents (40p), and after a few very generous ones we were definitely all quite merry. The next morning most of us had stories to tell of either some drinking injury, getting lost on the way home, or feeling very ill with even a few of us throwing up! But it was an excellent night out. * Mush
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