Things to see and do Nyaung Shwe

Around Inle Lake there are two vineyards. If the Red Mountain Estate is the closest, it is not necessarily the best production. Nevertheless, the location remains surprising, nestled on the heights of Inle Lake and taking advantage of the microclimate of the valley. Creating wine in a tropical country has not been easy! A bet largely won thanks to a passionate team and the help of French specialists. After a visit of the estate, you will be able to treat yourself to a wine tasting while enjoying the superb sunset view over the lake and the valley.

You may never have seen such beautiful vegetable gardens as those at Inle Lake. Floating and bountiful. Inle is almost entirely self-sufficient. The men work there with their families. From an early age, the boys fill the barges with mud and push them from the water to the waist to the gardens, creating a floating barge as they go, on which the vegetables grow vigorously. The speciality here is the tomato, which is delicious. Of course, you will not fail to taste it in many restaurants in the area.

Built on stilts like all the other monasteries in the region, this small monastery, still in operation, is famous for its teak thein, the consecrated room, and its oval openings, unique in their kind, which sometimes let you see the heads of the bonzillons studying. It is undoubtedly a very beautiful image to photograph or simply to keep as a souvenir, which shows all the charm of Burma. Near the monastery, you can visit a small pagoda, interesting for the interior decorations of its ambulatory.

Once off the boat In Dein reserves one of the most beautiful surprises of the lake. You have to take the long and wide covered stairs for almost a kilometre, bordered by a small market of local stalls. It crosses the swampy countryside to reach King Alaungsithu's zedi. At the end, the Shwe Inn Tain pagoda is enthroned. Very pretty, but it is not the one we come to see here. At the back, we must find the exit to stay stuck in front of the landscape. A forest of stupas that rushes by hundreds of all colors in the heart of the bamboo grove.

A lot of handicraft workshops populate the lake. During a pirogue excursion, your pilot will stop you wherever he wants. So don't hesitate to choose your itinerary according to your points of interest first with the hotel so that the message is transmitted to him because he doesn't necessarily speak English. Blacksmiths, goldsmiths, weavers, cheeroots factories, these cigars rolled by hand, the choice is vast. The most interesting according to us: the floating gardens, the cigarette factory, and the lotus factory. And if you like Burmese cats, the Inle Heritage!