Myanmar 61 Inle Lake Nyaung Shwe & Padaung women

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Myanmar
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INLE LAKE
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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.
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The nearest airport is Heho Airport which is
35 km away. There are flights from both Yangon
and Mandalay. Yangon is 660 km away by road,
Mandalay 330 km
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Inle Lake is in the heart of Shan State, which
has been the location of much of the civil and
political strife over the last two decades.
Political imprisonments and disappearances are
common. Nyaung Shwe is a small town at the north
end of Inle Lake. One can take a walk to nearby
villages and countryside and find the ruins of
the old monasteries.
Yadana Man Aung pagoda
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Yadana Man Aung pagoda
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Yadana Man Aung Pagoda is situated in Nyaung
Shwe. Built by Nyaung Shwe Saw Bwar Soe Maung
(Chieftain of Shan) in 1866, this Pagoda is
famous for its Shan traditional architecture
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Local taxi
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Euphorbia milii (crown of thorns, Christ plant,
Christ thorn)
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Euphorbia milii (crown of thorns, Christ plant,
Christ thorn)
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The poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
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Nyaung Shwe
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Nyaung Shwe
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Nyaung Shwe
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Nyaung Shwe is also the starting point of the
trip into the Inle Lake.
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Floating village
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Golden Island Cottages Hotel
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Golden Island Cottages Hotel
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Iwama village, Padaung women
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The Kayan are a subgroup of the Red Karen people,
a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar. The
Kayan consists of the following groups Kayan
Lahwi (also called Padaung), Kayan Ka Khaung
(Gekho), Kayan Lahta, Kayan Ka Ngan. Kayan Gebar,
Kayan Kakhi and, sometimes, Bwe people (Kayaw)
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Padaung (Yan Pa Doung) is a Shan term for the
Kayan Lahwi (the group whose women wear the brass
neck coils). The Kayan resident in Mae Hong Son
Province in Northern Thailand refer to themselves
as Kayan and object to being called Padaung.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s due to conflict
with the military regime in Burma, many Kayan
tribes fled to the Thai border area. Among the
refugee camps set up there was a Long Neck
section, which became a tourist site,
self-sufficient on tourist revenue and not
needing financial assistance.
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One of the most striking of ethnic groups is the
long necked Padaung nationals living in the Shan
State. Their unique attractiveness is their well
acclaimed brass rings on the women's necks.
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There are two  kinds of Padaung- one puts rings
on women's necks called "long-necked Padaungs"
and the other, without rings on women's necks
called "short necked Padaungs."
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Interesting to note is how Padaung women put the
rings on their necks, a tradition passed down
from their great grand parents to this day.
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At the early age of five or six years, the spiral
brass rings are put around the Padaung girl's
neck. More neck rings are added every four years,
up to nine times until the age of (45).
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The Padaungs live in a single house or hut, and
most of them are farmers and hunters.
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There are still many Padaung women stuck in
Burma, although they live in areas of the country
deemed unsafe for tourists to travel
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Unlike normal accessories, these rings are for
life and may only be removed with the direst of
results. Adultery among Padaung women has always
been punished by the removal of the rings, a fate
almost literally, worse than death. This is an
unusually cruel punishment as the cervical
vertebrae has become deformed after years of
wearing the rings, and the neck muscles have
atrophied. Unless she wishes to risk suffocation
the unfortunate wife must pay for the infidelity
by spending the rest of her life lying down or
try to find some other artificial support for her
neck
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Bronze and silver bracelets also cover the womens
legs and arms, a custom likely to remain
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The neck rings however, may very well become
extinct within a generation or two as younger
Padaung women are beginning to refuse to fit the
rings around their children's necks.
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By the last round, the rings will weigh about (5)
kg. This custom of neck rings has attracted a
great deal of interest.
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2014
Sound Saung Zaw Win Maung - A walk on
the floral bridge