Inle Lake teeming with holidaymakers

INLE Lake was crowded with holidaymakers on the Full Moon Day of Thadingyut yesterday, and souvenir shops have been recording high sales since Friday, the start of the five-day holiday.

“Local visitors have bought mostly local textiles. Foreign visitors have mostly bought silverware,” said Ma Myat Pan Ein of Ngwe Sin Tun Traditional Silver Wares and Textile Shop, located at the lake.

Traditional weaving of textiles with lotus fiber, silk and cotton hand-weaving, workshops of goldsmiths and blacksmiths in villages around the lake are popular with tourists and local visitors as well.

The Thadingyut holiday usually coincides with the annual ceremonial tour of Inle Phaungdaw Oo Buddha’s images, which is conducted for 18 days from 29 September to 18 October, and covers 18 areas of Inle region.

This is one of the significant ceremonies of Inle region, which is attended by local pilgrims as well as foreign visitors.

Since the time it was designated Myanmar’s first biosphere reserve and a natural world heritage site in 2013, Inle Lake has drawn more international travelers, with tourist arrivals increasing year after year.

Aye Min Thu

(Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)

Photo - MNA

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar