We had a really nice day today. Our lady guide Hti met us at the hotel and we boated off onto the lake. Upon seeing the first leg-rowing fisherman we suspected that he might have been a hotel employee in costume but as the day developed and we saw more and more we were convinced it was authentic. The lake is very shallow (about 1.5m) by the look of it, although you cannot see the bottom for weed. The water is mostly clear and clean except near the villages and sh...

We had arranged for the hotel to provide a car and driver to transfer us to Inle Lake View Hotel this morning and all went well until we reached the town at the lake and the driver informed us that that was as far as he went and we had to get a boat across the lake to the hotel. As you can imagine, we were not too pleased and a long and confused telephone conversation ensued between driver, hotel manager, Madam and helpful passer-by. Manager artfully proposed tha...