There are two types of silk; the thick weave with designs and the thin ones in plain colour. The silk woven designs from Inlay are the thinner ones. To weave a set of robe for a monk, it requires the fibres from 120,000 stems of the dark pink lotus. Now, scarves are also woven from […]
The native people, In-Thars, grow vegetables on floating islands which are collections of floating weed and water hyacinth. These floating islands can be cut, dragged by boats and ever be sold like a piece of land. Floating gardens can be found mostly in Kaylar, Inchan, and Zayatgyi villages.
In Se-khong village, there is a blacksmith workshop which produces knives and farming tools, sold at different 5 – day markets around the Inlay region.
The Golden Triangle is an area of around 350,000 square kilometers that overlaps the mountains of three countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. The Golden Triangle designates the confluence of the Sop Ruak River and the Mekong river, since the term has been appropriated by the region tourist industry to describe the nearby […]
