COUNTRIES

Beautiful mountain scenery around Kalaw, where we started a 3-day trek to Inle Lake, one of the main tourist attractions of Myanmar

A young woman was making simple brooms from these plants

Our guide took us to this house for lunch

Life in a village

"The Three Musketeers"

People don't mind being photographed and often are happy to have a picture taken

Riding a Water Buffalo, frequently used as livestock in southern Asia

Buffalo enjoys being in water, not being sprayed with water

Woman manually harvesting grain

Ploughing her field the traditional way

This girl was working with a hoe

January is the middle of dry season

2 girls we met on our way

This man carried his cargo for 5 hours to sell it in a village and make some money

Women apply thanaka paste made from ground bark

Boys showing off in one of the villages we passed through

Children are always happy to pose for photos and like to see them afterwards

Boys carried firewood necessary for cooking. Children don't have much time to play

Collecting chili peppers

He was digging out ginger and even gave us one piece (and didn't expect anything in exchange)

Threshing peanuts after drying them in the sun

Walking dusty paths on the second day. It was around 30C and sunny all day, which is the norm in January

2 months after the end of the rainy season, only well adapted plants remain green

Rice fields after harvest. Burma was the world's largest exporter of rice but now accounts for just 0.5%

Rice covers about 60% of the cultivated land area and accounts for 97% of total food grain production

Children in this village asked for empty water bottles

These shy boys didn't ask for anything

Morning fog on the third and last day of our trek. We slept in Hte Thein Monastery and were woken up at 5am by singing monks

That's the way I like to travel!

Looking back on the dusty road leading to Indein, where boat was waiting for us