The most beautiful sight on the lake is the 'floating garden', a network of floating farms growing all kinds of flowers and vegetables in long rows, kept in place by thousands of bamboo sticks securing them to the bottom of the lake.
We were reassured early on that, despite there being a whole lot of water and no easy way to access the mainland, there are still plenty of pagodas... Some just little stupas floating in the middle of the lake. We decided to go on a minor trek through Myanmar's mini Angkor Wat, negotiating the forest landscape and bamboo bridges to find a series of crumbling shrines and temples, centuries old, with whole trees growing out of them. Quite a sight.
In the evenings we are back at our hotel, stranded (alas), and forced to watch the sunset from the balcony of our little room on stilts. Hard life. (Hilariously the whole time we have assume the Myanmar people are obsessed with sunsets as everyone keeps insisting we watch it wherever we are, but it turns out it's us who they think are obsessed and so they think we are very strange people who like looking at the sun the whole time!)
Now for 2 days rest. Bliss.
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