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Myanmar Travel Guide–Visiting and Photographing Burma

Submitted by David Cardinal on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 02:13

For six years we’ve been traveling to and photographing the wonders of Myanmar (also known as Burma) and have collected a good variety of information on visiting. Much of it is in articles we’ve written for our website or other publications and much more of it is found in sometimes hard to find books on the country, its history and its people. To help prospective visitors and those who are merely curious about the country we’ve assembled links to all the information together on this page to make it a convenient resource.

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Burma: The Land That Time Forgot

Burma: The Land That Time Forgot 

Sunrise in Bagan, Myanmar
Nikon D2H
Processed using Photokit Color
 Just the name Burma conjures up images of hot jungles and bitter conflict. One of the most deadly theaters of WWII Burma was a place much in the news and on everyone�s mind in that period. Then, renamed Myanmar and taken over by a virtual lynch mob of generals who have suspended elections after placing their elected president under house arrest the country has increasingly become a throwback to a different time.

Unlike neighboring Thailand and China, Myanmar has largely been left out of the Asian economic boom because of its insular and repressive government and backwards economic policies--amplified by a US trade embargo. The result is a country with many modern issues but set in a nearly historic backdrop.

Visiting Burma (Myanmar)
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