UPDATED Covid and tourism In 2019 Covid19 appeared in China and rapidly became a pandemic. It spread to every country in the world (except, apparently, Turkmenistan). Now, three years later, ...

A river cruise along the great waterways of Southeast Asia is a wonderful way to see rural life in many countries without having too big an impact on the environment ...

Watch our video of the Mergui Archipelago The eight hundred islands in the Mergui Archipelago are mainly limestone and granite with hills covered by thick green tropical forests. Some islands ...

Cooking classes are a popular tourist activity in South East Asia and A Glimpse of Mandalay is one of the best. But it's much more than cooking. A glimpse of ...

Pho Win Taung cave complex A view overlooking part of the Pho Win Taung Buddhist cave complex in northern Myanmar. Pho Win Taung, Pho Win Hill, is a Buddhist complex ...

The Mergui Archipelago lies in the Andaman Sea off the coast of southern Myanmar. How it all began It was a dark and stormy night in the Mergui Archipelago in ...

The Chindwin River The Chindwin, at 1200km, is the largest tributary of Myanmar's chief river the Ayeyarwady (2200km) and for a long distance near the source it flows through mountain ...

(This post has been updated.) Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, is Myanmar's largest city with a population of 6 or 7 million. It was the capital of Myanmar (Burma) from ...

The Vietnamese cyclo is a three-wheel bicycle taxi introduced to Vietnam by the French in the colonial period. There used to be thousands of them on the streets of Saigon ...

Check out our Gokteik Viaduct video. Pyin Oo Lwin (originally Maymyo) was the summer capital of the British in Burma and they built the railway to link it to Lashio ...