Woke up at around 5.30am with the incessant crowing of a cockerel near my bungalow. Managed to doze until 6.20 when my alarm went off. Met Fiona and James in the restaurant for breakfast at around 6.45, before heading off to the jetty area to meet our guide and boat, which we had arranged the previous day. The initial journey to Inle lake took us 1/2 hour, and then to reach to other end of the lake to our first destination of. took another hour.