Here is the link to my third and final New Zealand Herald travel article on Burma / Myanmar, this one all about Bagan. Bagan – a temple-filled plain, bordered by the Irrawaddy River and ringed by jagged mountains – is regarded as the premier tourist destination in Myanmar. Nobody is really sure of the…
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What Makes Myanmar’s Inle Lake So Remarkable – Part 2 In My NZ Herald Series + 25 Favourite Photos
Cage-net fishing, Intrepid tour of Myanmar, Inle Lake. Part two of my New Zealand Herald series of articles on Burma / Myanmar was published this week, this one on what makes Inle Lake so remarkable. Located in central Burma, this is a place where everything is floating – floating villages, floating markets, floating…
My NZ Herald Myanmar Series Part 1: Yangon’s Crumbling Colonial Architecture & Chaotic Streets, Incl. 30 Favourite Photos
The Shewedagon Pagoda Yesterday the New Zealand Herald published part one of my three-part series of travel articles on Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Thanks to Intrepid Travel, Flight Centre and Student Flights, I had a 15 day Intrepid tour of what is really the last undiscovered country in South East Asia. The tour began…
Reflections On My Myanmar Adventure + My Top 40 Photos
I’ve just got home from my first ever adventure in Burma / Myanmar, a place I’d long wanted to visit but which has been closed off to the outside world for so long. It is cliche to see new places and tell everyone what a contradiction of old and new they were, of rich and…
My Upcoming Adventures In Myanmar With Intrepid Travel
In a little over seven weeks I will be on a plane to a place I have never been before and more than that, a country which has been virtually closed to the outside world for as long as many of us can remember. I figured it was time to go somewhere new and to…