Day 10 - Monks, monestries and the U-Bein bridge

We had a nice late 9am start this morning. Our first stop was to a working Monestry. We were shown around where they make their food and told about how they have donors to pay for their food and time in the Monestry. This was a huge Monestry with over 1000 novices and monks. We watched their ceremony where they carried their pots to get donations. They all lined up in the street around within the Monestry to watch the procession of them all. They were all ages and sizes. We were also told of the youngest novice monks who wore white instead of the burgundy. 

We visited a teak Monestry too with intricate wood carvings. 

Just before lunch we all got onto horse drawn carts (two in each cart) and were ridden around Inwa stopping off in a few places before finally stopping for lunch including the leaning tower. The carts were very bumpy ! 

After lunch we went to Amarapura. Here we visited another Monestry before making our way to U-Bein bridge. A few of us decided to do the boat option which meant we had a boat take us to the central point. Here we got off and walked along so,ex of the bridge. Along the way we met a lady with a basket full of owls. We saw someone else pay her for two owls and we discovered that you can pay to take an owl and release it. Four of us decided to do this. On the way back to the boat we was hundreds of ducks swimming on the lake. It was a right unusual scene ! 

Getting back in the boats our driver took us to a great point in the lake so we could get fab photos of the sun setting. To finish the tour of the day we saw an elephant dancing. No not a real one - two people inside one ! 

As we have an early start next day to travel we decided to have snacks in our room and read, so we popped off to the 'grab and go' to pick up crisps etc.

Snack, read, sleep.......