Burmese Days : The people of Inle Lake

Inle Lake in the Shan-State of Myanmar at an elevation of 900 m is a large and very shallow  freshwater lake that provides a living for about 100.000 people who live on the lake shore or in houses on stilts. They farm the lake by fishing with their characteristic long-boats that they propel using an arm and wrapping a leg around the oar and farming the many man-made swimming islands. Living on Inle Lake

                                                              Fisherman with the famous one-legged rowing technique

                                                   with a fish trap