Leaving Nyuangshwe Annette stops to buy from a bakery. An old wooden monastery a few kms north of Inle. A local shopkeeper at work at the wok. Bullock carts in the fields loaded up with hay to take back to the village Gorgeous rolling patchwork hills as we rode from Aungbung to Pindaya A loaded bullock cart The morning scene from our htlel looking across the lake at Pindaya. At the entrance to the cave pagoda, Pindaya’s symbol of an archer shooting a spider. The view down to Pindaya from the cave pagoda. Inside the cave where thousands of buddhas. In fact it was a maze of buddhas. Looking across the lake to the Pagoda on the hillside. We took a shortcut on a very small road which deteriorated into a track. And then got even worse, a deep creek crossing. Lucky we had the mountain bike. A pair of giant standing buddha take up half a small mountain. The next day we descended from the plateau back to the plains The road was rough an reasonably steep making for an enjoyable ride on the mountain bike. We passed a roadside stupa and posed for a time delay photo. This concrete pillar with 3 animated figures climbing took my fancy. Here is our hero. the daredevil motorcyclist who saved us by doubling me from the outskirts of Mandalay into the city to find 26” bike tyres.