Inle Lake Five Day Market

The Bazaar has it's name because the place where it happens shifts in in this interval.

At Inle Lake the Five Day Market is a very interesting spectacle where all local tribes gather around the lake in their particular dresses. This events are very important since they are the way to buy the every day goods needed, in the part of the world are no grocery stores with a suitable assortment. 
As you can see it at the pictures people come even from far with boats, ox carts and some with cars and trucks. It also functions as a news exchange and other things, internet and newspaper is only available in the big hotels for the tourists.

For the local people who have usually no money it's a hard living, imagine when you get sick, because of this remoteness you better get a excellent travel insurance when "roaming" around here. 

People living around the lake are Shan and Pa-O, the first are around since they can think and the second came a few hundred hundred years ago from south Myanmar to escape the ever lasting war's between the Thai and the Burmese.

The products to trade are not very diverse, it's agricultural, vegetable, rice, flowers, pork and chicken and consumer goods which slowly trickle in from Thailand and China or are carried up from Yangon by truck. 

The mainly women at the stalls wear black clothing together with some other of strong colors, many smoke local made cigarettes which are enhanced with various herbs and add-on's.