Water world.

I spent a few days at Inle Lake in Myanmar.

Surrounded on two sides by mountains, about 70,000 people live and work around, on, or in the water. Their adaption to this aquatic life is quite something and although the place is on the tourist map, local people go about their way of life as they have done for 600-years, which includes:

- Leg rowing: standing-up, fishermen balance on their long, low boats, rowing and steering with one leg. This keeps both hands free to work the nets and fish.

- Creating floating gardens: over centuries huge floating islands have been developed on which they grow crops - mainly tomatoes. They build them from weed harvested from the lake and anchor them to the lake floor with long bamboo sticks. This enables the 'land' to rise and fall with water levels and for them to row between to harvest crops.

Inle Lake is another Myanmar one-off.