We had a slow and quiet morning today. No sunrise temples to visit, no early morning transport picking us up. Just a quiet morning. We made it for pancake breakfast before 10 and relaxed a bit more. Around noon we asked if we could borrow a couple of bicycles and then we headed through town and towards a small village on the westerns shore of the lake.
It was nice a quiet to bike around the countryside and look at people doing farm work, fishing or whatever they were busy with this afternoon. Going on fairly old but sturdy bicycles we made it in a slow pace to a sign saying "boat" and a man guiding us to his cousins boat. We paid 10.000 Kyat to have us and the bikes sailed across the lake.
After some 15 minutes we made it to the other shore, off loaded the bikes and drove into another small village. Only one restaurant made the decision for food quite easy. They served some of the best food we've had in a while including a really good fish curry. We waited a bit for the afternoon heat to drop before continuing towards Red Mountain Estate Vineyards. Located on a hillside with lake view and sunset it is pretty busy with tourist but we managed to get a good table, do the surprisingly good wine tasting of three white and one red wine from the estate. Also looking back at our travel experiences and realising that the last time we did wine tasting was in Canada in the Okanagan Valley. That's a lot of kilometres ago.
We just sat here on the hillside in Myanmar and enjoyed the wine, another couple joined us and we spent the rest of the afternoon talking travel plans and experiences with them. At 6 PM we headed back to our bikes and as the darkness came we did our best to make it back to town and our hostel.
And booked a full day boat trip on the lake tomorrow. Pick up at 7:30 at the motel.
It was nice a quiet to bike around the countryside and look at people doing farm work, fishing or whatever they were busy with this afternoon. Going on fairly old but sturdy bicycles we made it in a slow pace to a sign saying "boat" and a man guiding us to his cousins boat. We paid 10.000 Kyat to have us and the bikes sailed across the lake.
After some 15 minutes we made it to the other shore, off loaded the bikes and drove into another small village. Only one restaurant made the decision for food quite easy. They served some of the best food we've had in a while including a really good fish curry. We waited a bit for the afternoon heat to drop before continuing towards Red Mountain Estate Vineyards. Located on a hillside with lake view and sunset it is pretty busy with tourist but we managed to get a good table, do the surprisingly good wine tasting of three white and one red wine from the estate. Also looking back at our travel experiences and realising that the last time we did wine tasting was in Canada in the Okanagan Valley. That's a lot of kilometres ago.
We just sat here on the hillside in Myanmar and enjoyed the wine, another couple joined us and we spent the rest of the afternoon talking travel plans and experiences with them. At 6 PM we headed back to our bikes and as the darkness came we did our best to make it back to town and our hostel.
And booked a full day boat trip on the lake tomorrow. Pick up at 7:30 at the motel.
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| Lazy morning in bed |
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| Getting the bike ready |
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| On the road |
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| Small guy - giant hat |
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| The opposite |
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| In the boat with the bikes |
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| Speeding across the lake |
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| Safely on the other side of Inle Lake |
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| Cold drink |
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| Best curry in a while |
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| The bench |
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| View with the lake in the horizon |
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| Tasting notes - the Sauv Blanc was best, mixed impressions from the other wines |
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| Sunset and winery - not tried since Canada, looong time ago |
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