Whilst visiting the array of temples in Bagan we were taken, as part of a small tour group, to this village - and what a nice hour we had looking around it ! It was like going back in time and though there were retail opportunities we never felt any pressure or experienced any hassle to buy anything - indeed we had loads of uninterrupted time to watch various crafts in action and take video of the what we might now perceive to be primitive engineering to make a myriad of useful products. Interesting to see how some parts of the world do still actually live their lives in a simple yet apparently happy way. I particularly enjoyed looking at some of the 'machinery' in use - foot treadled devices driven by belts; foot operated bellows to fire up small furnaces for metal work; mesmerising looms operated by talented ladies. Marvellous !

Do not waste your time its a trap! Rather visit the nice temples around the village. Everyone screams „look at the village“ as soon as you approach and offers you to look around and take you around. They will walk with you through the village and show you their huts first and towards the end you will be dragged from one shop to the next. And unfriendliness will grow as you refuse to buy anything. At the end of the forced „shopping tour“ they will show you their family and directly ask you for an immensely overpriced fee 10.000 kyat per person!!! We gave here 5.000 - the price is equivalent to an ebike for half a day!- and didn’t even take the money - we put it on the table- and she was still unfriendly and didn’t even say goodbye. Tourism at it’s worst- this is not how buddhists behave like!!!! Recommendation: there is nothing special to see, just skip it!