It's a short flight of about 90 minutes from Yangon to Inle Lake and it's worth a window seat. Myanmar is a predominantly rural country ... It's not all fishing and farming; there's a bird sanctuary ...

Myanmar has an abundance of gorgeous natural attractions just waiting to be explored. Reaching these destinations is becoming more convenient as infrastructure and transportation steadily improve ...

Residents such as Daw May Lwin had terrifying escapes when their houses on scenic Inle Lake collapsed around them after the ...

And then there’s Inle Lake. The mountain valley lake in Myanmar ... small (six-room hotel), art gallery and Myanmarese cat sanctuary. Myanmar is expensive for travellers.

Each year around 200,000 foreigners and one million locals visit Inle—a vast, serene body of water surrounded by verdant hills. Many criss-cross the lake on small wooden boats to visit stilted ...

Inle Lake is one of the prized possessions of Myanmar, laid out like a glassy ... The tour calls at Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda, the lake's main sanctuary, which contains five sacred Buddha images ...

Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary (WS) contains Indawgyi Lake ... cook stoves and community managed eco-tourism, are underway. Within Myanmar, the most similar site is Inle Lake. Located in southern ...

At present, eight parks in Myanmar -- Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary, Khakaborazi National Park, Inle Lake, Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park, Meinmahla Kyun Wildlife Sanctuary, Natma Taung National Park, ...

Forty years ago when Yin Myo Su was a child, she would regularly wash in the waters of Inle Lake, in Myanmar’s Shan State. Not any more. “Today, the lake is dying,” says Yin, better known as ...

INLE LAKE (AFP): From a gently rocking boat, Nyunt Win tends a floating tomato crop in the cool water of Myanmar's famed Inle Lake, nestled in the Shan Hills and once the country's most popular ...

Between 1992 and 2009, the portion of Inle covered by floating farms increased by 500 percent, according to a report from Myanmar's government. And the area under cultivation has only expanded ...