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03 Nga Phe Kyaung Monastery, also written Nga Hpe Chaung, is famous as the Jumping Cat Monastery. It is an attractive wooden monastery built on stilts over Inle Lake at the end of the 1850s. To while away time in the monastery, the monks of Nga Phe Kyaung have taught a few of the many cats living with them to jump through hoops


                                                                                                                               Jan Schonebeek © Asiaphoto.nl