September 10^{th 2013}  – Lake Inle

The fields opposite our hotel are being cropped and the rice hung to dry

These two ladies have to carry their rice from the millers to their home

They stop to take a rest, and David helps the older women put the sack back on her head to carry again

This is the mill where the women collected their rice

Some people can afford a tractor however!

The brick chimney here is used as a crematorium

The pig in the Right hand shed has its’ sewage going into the pot in the middle, as does the toilet in the Right hand shed!

Chopping a tree down for burning fuel

Someone’s private house on the river

Another way to carry heavy loads

But a lift on the tractor would be easier!

Hotel staff going home

Workers going home after working in the fields

Our hotel bungalow on stilts – ‘Fine views and cuisine’  offered us a ringside view for the above photos and sunset below