Inle Lake Leg Rower

The rower are somehow a trademark of Shan State.

There is probably no place on earth where they use this technique to maneuver boats and it is indeed amazing how the balance this on the water since that is also a moving surface. On top of it they work with the fish-trap when balancing at the same time.

Creating floating gardens.

 

The farmer pull up the silt and grow vegetables on it. With this method they can harvest 3 times per year.

Inle Lake on located on the Shan plateau about thousand meters above sea level and they have a very unique technique to produce aquiculture which actually makes them real famous and 3 harvest per year. That produces one of the real wealthy part of the country.

Actually it is not far away from the golden triangle.

which is the main opium and drug producing part of the whole but that has nothing to do to with drugs which are mainly made by Chinese and not by Myanmar’s. The Chinese drug lords are just paying their private armies to be save on their drug business. Now what have the locals to do with is? They receive the weapons from the Chinese criminals and get money; since there is no much work available in the area anyway they take it.

All this stuff is related to Chinese criminals and not to the Myanmar State. Now who started all this? The English, who squeezed the Burmese during colonial times to do opium poppy growing and made lots of money by selling this opium to the Chinese, and produced tremendous profits to the crown, means the English drug dealing queen.

The country has plenty of ethnicities which is reflected here since the majority of the populations are Intha which migrated from the south around Bago to this area after they had enough from the continuous war between Thailand and Burma. 

Here they live on houses made from bamboo on stilts and travel around by boat. Their technique for fishing is more practical to row while standing to throw the fish trap they position themselves at the back and wrap the other leg around the oar.