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Just tripped over this on YouTube... Nga Phe Kyaung monastery on Inle Lake, Myanmar is better known as Jumping Cat Monastery because... well, you'll see [click to continue…]
If you need help organising domestic flight tickets and hotel bookings within Myanmar, I can recommend Radiant Tours - they did a great job of helping me when I visited Burma [click to continue…]
Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi turns 64 today - and is still in prison. Her recently republished book "The Voice Of Hope" provides a superb recap of who Aung San Suu Kyi is and why she has sacrificed her family and freedom in the hope of a free Burma. [click to continue…]
I'm heading off tomorrow on a scuba diving liveaboard trip to Burma -- if you're interested in finding out more, you can read about it on my dive blog Divehappy.com. UPDATE - there's now a 3 part trip report about my Burma dive trip - follow the link for part 1. [click to continue…]
Pascal Khoo Thwe’s autobiography is a classic “truth is stranger than fiction” tale, describing how a dirt poor Burmese mountain boy improbably fell in love with the writings of James Joyce and eventually found himself studying at Cambridge University in England
The second of Travelhappy’s Thailand Writer series. This week, Phil Thornton, author of Restless Souls, about the Karen of Burma and the uneasy border between Burma and Thailand
Every Friday, a new photo of amazing Asian people and places here on Travelhappy. This week: Burma’s holiest shrine, the Shwedagon Pagoda
If you’ve been watching the news, you can’t have failed to have heard about Cyclone Nargis which has killed at least 15,000 people in Myanmar this weekend and left hundreds of thousands homeless. The country was a mess before the cyclone hit thanks to the military junta, but now 5 provinces are a bona fide [...]
My article on the ancient Buddhist temples of Angkor, Bagan and Sukhothai, “The Legacy”, has just been published in Asian Geographic magazine.
With current events in Myanmar moving towards a major confrontation between the military junta and the people, Thierry Falise’s French language biography of Aung San Suu Kyi is an important reminder of her role in the country’s hope for democracy to be restored
As Myanmar’s military junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to another year of house arrest, the publication of her biography is an apt reminder of both her personal and political struggle
It’s like something out of Harry Potter: a gold spired monastery clinging to the top of Mount Popa, a craggy finger of rock towering 700 metres above the surrounding Myingyan Plain.
The New York Times recently ran a great article by Jane Perlez documenting her visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma) in search of the exotic foods described by George Orwell in his classic novel Burmese Days
There are plenty of great books about Myanmar (formerly Burma) - here’s a few that I’ve enjoyed and inspired my recent visit
The little known Chaukhtatgyi Temple in Myanmar’s capital city Yangon has one of the biggest and most graceful Reclining Buddha statues in South East Asia
and way too tired to write anything coherent, except that it was fantastic. I took lots of semi-decent photos (erm - maybe) which I’ll be adding to travelhappy over the next week. In the meantime, check out my posts about the run up to going travelling in Myanmar. I’m off to bed…
Travelling is exciting, but it can also cause a lot of pre-trip apprehension about venturing into the unknown. Here’s 6 tips for dealing with the fear and getting over it so you enjoy your travels
Applying for a Myanmar visa in Bangkok is surprisingly straightforward if you know where to go. Here’s some tips on making it easy on yourself.
Don Gilliland’s travel blog has some bewitching photos of Myanmar, capturing some of the spirit of Myanmar people as they go about their everyday lives
Restless Souls provides an eyewitness account of the world’s longest running civil war being fought by the Karen tribe against the Burmese military junta which has largely been forgotten by the outside world
Peter Olszewski’s memoir of a year spent living in Myanmar is a fascinating, intimate personal account of day to day life in this politically tormented country
Myanmar is no ordinary travel destination which can be easily visited - it needs some thought and planning to explore one of the most mysterious South East Asian countries to the West
I seem to be doing a lot of travelling in South East Asia and Australia this year. This is where I’ll be going in 2007
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Despite the brutality of the ruling military junta, Myanmar (Burma) is still a fascinating place to visit and the Burmese people are very welcoming to foreign guests
Ostensibly an attempt to retrace the physical origins of George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days, Secret Histories is actually a superbly concise and deeply scary history lesson in the fate of pre and post-colonial Myanmar.
If you want to explore modern day Myanmar, AirAsia have now started budget flights from Bangkok to the country’s former capital Yangon
With backpacking in South East Asia so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that some of these countries are still governed by extremely repressive regimes
