Myanmar54 Inle Lake Jumping Cat Monastery

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Myanmar
INLE LAKE
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Nga Phe Kyaung (Jumping Cat) Monastery
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Inle Lake is a freshwater lake located in the
Shan Hills in Myanmar. It is the second largest
lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of
44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the
highest at an altitude of 2,900 feet (880 m).
During the dry season, the average water depth is
7 feet (2.1 m), with the deepest point being 12
feet (3.7 m), but during the rainy season this
can increase by 5 feet (1.5 m)
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Nga Hpe is a wooden monastery, which was built on
stilts on Inle Lake, Myanmar just north of Ywama.
The monastery was famous for its cats, which
were trained by the monks to jump through small
hoops.
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A rather impressive collection of Buddha statues,
some very old indeed, and representing a wide
variety of different styles. Most, but not all,
are quite small statues albeit usually displayed
on lovely carved wooden (mainly) pedestals
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Just as impressive as the Buddhas themselves are
the tall, highly ornate, wood-and-mosaic
pedestals and cases built for the images. Such
pedestals are the specialties of Shan and
Northern Thai Buddhist art and those at the
monastery are over 100 years old
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The Nga Phe Kyaung is the biggest and oldest
monastery in Inle Lake.
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It is a beautiful wooden structure that was built
on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s.
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The monastery itself is meant to have been built
in the mid 19th Century and is an entirely wooden
building built on stilts right over the water. As
usual in Lake Inle you have to arrive and leave
here by boat.
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Off the main hall there is another section with
maybe 20 or so handicraft/souvenir stalls. But
unlike most other places in Myanmar you don't go
through the stalls first before you get to the
Paya or Kyaung itself
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2014
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Sound Hlaing Win Maung - Birds enjoing
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