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Myanmar

3 places
Myanmar, long sealed off by isolation and military rule, kept a gilded, devout, deeply traditional world where longyi-wrapped monks and thanaka-painted faces fill the streets and thousands of ancient temples still stand. The Irrawaddy runs the length of it, from Himalayan foothills to a vast rice…

The Centre (Bagan, Mandalay & Inle)2 places

BaganPoint · ●●●●○A dusty plain beside the Irrawaddy studded with thousands of brick temples and pagodas built by the kings of a medieval…
Inle LakeNature · ●●●●○A calm highland lake where fishermen row standing on one leg, wrapping the other around the oar, and whole villages of…

The South (Yangon & the Coast)1 place

YangonTown · ●●●○○Myanmar's largest city, a humid sprawl of mouldering colonial mansions and busy tea shops gathered around the vast…