"Dancing fisherman" - Myanmar

Sometimes we ask, how tourism changes the untouched countries and those who travel know, that tourism is very powerful at bringing changes into the lifestyle of any country like Myanmar, which opened its borders to tourism only 6 years ago. Well here is this touching picture of a fisherman on the Inle Lake, the second largest lake in this country. It seems to be a pretty impressive shot from the boat passing by, while the fisherman is doing his job. The ugly truth is, that this man realised, it is financially better to be posing for the tourists, than fishing and selling in the market. He is floating right at the place, where the river channel enters the lake - that means all the boats coming from the town called Nyaungshwe have to go pass him. Some people are disgusted by this fact, me being a photo hunter, I loved the dance he did for me and my lens. Must be even more beautiful while sunrise and a fog lying lazily above the surface. I was pleased to give him some change and truly, I saw sparkle of happiness in his wrinkly face – he was so pleased, he was spoiling me with even more beautiful “dances”. Fisherman or a “posing dancer” - he has to feed his family and I know the poverty in this country is still a big issue.

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