One-legged rowing

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One-legged oarsman

One-legged rowing is an endemic form of locomotion on the waters of Inle Lake in Myanmar .

The rowers from the Intha people stand with almost artistic skill with one leg on the small platform at the stern of their wooden boat. With the other leg you grasp and move the oar. This gives them at least one hand free to do useful work. The fishermen on Inle Lake make particular use of this.

At the Phaung Daw U-Fest , boats with up to a hundred one-legged oars are used. They pull the barge with the Buddha statues from one village to the next and organize exciting boat races on the final day of the festival.

gallery

  • Rowers
  • offspring
  • four
  • Women's festival boat
  • Boat races
  • Hundreds
  • Fisherman with fish trap
  • Fisherman with net

literature

  • Wilhelm Klein: Burma (= Apa Guides. ). Nelles, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88618-991-0 , p. 244.
  • Andrea Markand, Markus Markand, Martin H. Petrich, Volker Klinkmüller: Myanmar. (Burma) (= Stefan Loose Travel Manuals. ). 2nd completely revised edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6147-5 , p. 357.
  • Martin Schacht: Instructions for use for Burma - Myanmar . Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-27628-3 , pp. 171f.

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