Inle Lake - Day 3

Our last day on beautiful Lake Inle and I was lucky enough to be at the front of the boat for the 1hr ride to the south west to visit what VJV described as the “unknown” Inthein Pagoda complex!

The early morning light was once again very flat. 

I badly over-exposed this image but in a weird way I like it.

We had to go through quite a long inlet in which they'd built some kind of lock system to control the water and it was rather run - like shooting rapids.

Then our route took us past a school and through the village, the covered walkway up was again lined with stalls.

This man was more than happy for me to photograph him working.

The complex which comprises 1,054 stupas, most dating from the 17^th and 18^th centuries and in different states of disrepair.  It is a very atmospheric place and you can wander around among the stupas.

Actually the crumbling old ones looked much better to us than the ones that had been restored as all restoration work has the same appearance, irrespective of its original style and design.

On the way back down we bumped into some more tea towel heads.

Then all too soon we were back in our little dragon boat heading back to Nyaung Shwe to pick up the coach for Heho Airport so we could fly to Yangon (Rangoon) - not looking forward to it!