20 July 2012 An air-conditioned bus from Inle Lake to Bagan costs 16,000 Kyat per person. We took a 7:00 AM bus from the Nyaung Shwe Junction, which is located about 25 minutes from the town of Nyaung Shwe. Since we were staying at the Aquarius Guesthouse, we had to arrange our own transportation to […]
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July 19, 2012 Once we were back in Nyaungshwe we checked into our very budget hotel, The Aquarius, and rented bicycles from a shop two doors down. We bicycled around to the East side of Inle Lake. Our destination was Kaung Daing Village, which is famous for hot springs and making tofu from yellow split peas.
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July 18, 2012 We spent the 18th at Shwe Inn Tha, which offers luxury bungalows on Inle Lake. It was raining the whole day, so instead of trying out the swimming pool we used the internet near the lobby and attempted to get some work done, despite the incredibly slow internet. It was nice to
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July 17, 2012 The next day we took another boat trip on Inle Lake to visit some of the less touristy places. Once again, it was the things that were not on the itinerary that were the best experiences. When we booked our boat trip at Smiling Moon we were given the options of doing
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16 July 2012 There are no shortage of places where you can hire a driver for your boat tour of Inle Lake. You can also hire a guide along with your boat driver, but we didn’t realize that at the time. Fortunately for us, our boat tour turned out great with just a driver! We
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July 15, 2012 After checking into Teakwood Guest House we slept for a few hours. (We paid $35 for a deluxe room with AC at Teakwood.) We did not want to miss breakfast, which ends at 9am, so we made sure to wake up and get ready by 8:30am. After breakfast we got a leisurely
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14 July 2012 Our original plan was to break up the trip from Hsipaw to Inle Lake into two days. First we would take the bus back to Mandalay and spend the night in Mandalay and then take a different bus the following day to Inle Lake. However, once we found out there was a
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