Today we left Kalaw and were on our way towards Inle Lake. We however did a bit of a detour and had a stop at Pindaya and the Shwe Oo Min Natural Cave Pagoda.

This pagoda is different (and certainly not a pagoda in the literal sense) – it consists of system of natural caves, that are interconnected and stuffed with thousands of Buddha statues and images. For a change there is no grand architecture to be described here – it is all about the (somewhat) surreal atmosphere inside the caves. I’ll stop here and let the photos talk for themselves …