Myanmar 59 Inle Lake Shwe Inn Tain Pagoda

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Myanmar
INLE LAKE
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Shwe Inn Tain Pagoda
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Inle Lake is found in the Shan State in a valley
surrounded by lush green mountains. The lake is
freshwater and is home to around 70,000 people
who mostly survive through fishing and farming.
The quaint village of Indein on the western side
of the lake is accessed by a winding river that
is too shallow to use late in the dry season
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Nyaung Oak (Under the shade of Banyan trees)
Monastery has a nice, old moldering complex of
shrines and stupa at the bottom of the hill. At
the top is Shwe Indein reached by a long stairway
with over 400 wooden columns. From the hillside
there are great views across the lake to the hill
in the east.
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Covered stairway to Shwe Inn Thein Paya
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Indein is one of the small villages of Inle Lake
located on the western bank of the lake. A
Buddha image has enshrined at a whitewashed
stupa, which is on the summit of a hill .
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Below the stupa around the hill are cluster of
hundreds of ancient stupas most are ruins
overgrown with bushes. The pagoda hill is quiet
and calm.
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One could feel the pleasant cool breeze with the
sweet rings of the bells hanging at the umbrella
of the stupa
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Mesmerizing view from pagoda hill release the
fatigue and refresh everybody who ascend to the
peak.
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A Pa O woman
The former princedom of Shan today constitute the
largest state in Myanmar, situated in the
northeast of the country. A fascinating feature
of this area is the number of different ethnic
peoples that live in the state. The ethnic
majority here is the population of four million
Shan, though they actually call themselves Tai or
Dai, the word 'Shan' having been derived by the
British from Siam.
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Like many other ethnic peoples, the Shan were
driven out of their home in South and central
China by the Tartars, and they migrated to
South-East Asia
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The Shan settled in Myanmar, but later Myanmar
kings and the Kachin drove them out of the north
to the northern mountains
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Their close relatives, the Thais, often refer to
the Shan as Tai Yai ('big Thai'), and the Shan
call their land Muang Tai rather than Shan State
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The Shan also settled in the north of Thailand,
the Hanoi region of Vietnam, India's Assam and
the Chinese province of Yunnan
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The second largest population is that of the Wa,
who belong to the Mon-Khmer people and speak
various dialects of the Wa language. An estimated
one million Wa live on the Myanmar border with
China and in China itself. Once they were greatly
feared, although they lived in the remote
mountains.
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The British adventurer Sir J. George Scott
undertook the first perilous expedition to the Wa
region in 1893, and until well into the 1970s the
Wa were known to stick human heads on poles in
order to improve their harvests
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