"A large mountain lake in a well preserved landscape. Several ethnic groups use the lake and its shores as their central landmark. The cultural traditions of numerous villages around it focus on the lake and have distinctive features: - internal navigation, fishing and commerce; - floating vegetable gardens installed on artificial rafts. - distinctive housing shapes and types. - annual Buddhist fezstival on the lake. The symbiosis and ecology of the lake, its shores and its villagers constitute a genuine instance of cultural landscape."
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List
Postcard 1
Inta fishermen standing at the stern on a slender boat, rowing with one leg on Inle Lake, located in the heart of Shan State, 1500m. Thanks to Gowan from South Korea who visited Myanmar.
Postcard 2
Inle Lake - famous for unique leg-rowers, sprawling lake, floating villages and floating vegetable gardens. Postcard mailed in an envelope from Myanmar.
Postcard 3
Fisherman in Inle Lake. Thanks to Ray of Hong Kong.
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