[Leica] Inle Lake

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

This is a great series, Howard.  I have often wondered what powered those 
long boats.  Thanks for the details.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:58 AM
Subject: [Leica] Inle Lake


> Hello again,
> On day 6 we again braved the turmoil at Mandalay airport and flew to Heho 
> airport to take the one hour drive to Nyaung Shwe jetty to take a long 
> boat into Inle Lake. The lake is 900 meters above sea level, 22km long and 
> 11km wide. What is most impressive about it is the ecological balance. 
> Despite the population, the water is clear, the fish taken from the lake 
> are edible, and vegetables are grown on floating islands of peat. Really 
> quite wonderful.
>
> Here is the Nyaung Shwe Jetty. I really like the painterly effect in the 
> early morning. I am going to get a painter friend of mine to commit the 
> scene to canvas.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/NyaungShweJettyw.jpg.html>
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> http://tinyurl.com/ceu4ncx
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> Travel in Inle lake is by long boat powered by two cylinder two cycle 
> engines with large fly wheels and long propellor shafts sticking out the 
> back of the boat.
> They are noisy and they are  fast! And some of them are smokey!
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/LongBtMotorM9w.jpg.html>
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> http://tinyurl.com/cvmb72a
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BusyCornerM9w.jpg.html>
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> http://tinyurl.com/cu7c9ru
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/SmokeyBt990w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bvguxkj
>
> Inle lake is famous for its fishermen who row standing up and catch their 
> fish with baskets, plunged down in the shallow lake.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/Inlelegrowerw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/carphoc
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/FishCaughtw.jpg.html>
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> http://tinyurl.com/c9asq73
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> At every jetty there are a group of boys ready to happily help you out of 
> your long boat. They don't seem to want a tip and just do the job for the 
> fun of it.
>
> Here are a couple of the young helpers:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BoatBoyM9w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/bn77f8o
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/BoatBoy2M9w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/btpzu2c
>
> We visited a silk factory on stilts at Indain village and watched the 
> grandmas spin the silk into thread. This was M9 country - with the 50mm 
> summilux Asph.
> I got down on the floor with the grandmas to take these portraits.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/SilkSpin39w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cnbfcxm
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/SilkSpin29w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/c7p7h6l
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/SilkSpin19w.jpg.html>
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> http://tinyurl.com/cchcv29
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> We were enchanted by Inle Lake. Were we to visit Burma again, we would 
> arrange to spend less time in Mandalay and more time at Inle Lake.
> It was really a very enchanting experience.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Burma2013/InleReflect9w.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cacpbyo
>
> Please look large.
> All C&C most welcome.
> Howard
> (off to Pender Island today and humming bird country where the internet 
> speed is not so good)
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