Inle Lake

We stayed in a village called Nyangshwe and in a really nice hotel called Princess Garden Hotel which was just on the edge of the small town we stayed in.

This town had a main drag where a few restaurants were. There is a good place in the Lonely Planet called Linn Htett which did a really great menu of local Myanmar food which essentially is a curry with lots of different accompaniments. There is so much food you can share. It was all pretty cheap too for a restaurant. It was busy with tourist as it was a LP recommendation. Definitely worth it.

We found a few other nice restaurants which sold BBQ meat and veg. We liked one called x.

One night we went to Owl & x which we knew would be more expensive but it was quite busy and we fancied something a bit more sociable. We had a delicious beer cocktail here which was beer with orange and tamarind. Then we got chatting to the waiter who told us about a new pub opening. This is not common for Myanmar as they have restaurants or beer stations so this was definitely a Western influence coming in. It was a reminder to us that progress was coming so if you do want to see Myanmar in it's unspoiled state then you need to go soon! The pub was actually pretty hipster inside so it was nice! The cocktails were very cheap too. About £1 for a mojito!

We took a full day boat trip around the lake. The best thing to do here is to plan your own route otherwise you will just get taken around the usual tourist haunts and shops. We felt a bit shipped through but there are so many beautiful spots that you do not need to go to every shop there is.