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As we approached the other end of Inle Lake, and eerie calm settled. Our guide has turned off the motor again and is not rowing towards our destination, which I suspect is not very far away. There were rows and rows of houses on stilts on the lake. In contrast to the houses in Nyaungshwe which are all built on land, these houses are built entirely on the lake bed itself. Fortunately, it is a shallow lake so it is not really that difficult to build here. This place was something reminiscent of the floating village of Chong Kneas on the Tonlé Sap in Cambodia, only this one looks much better organized so it was much less depressing.
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