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To Myanmar With Love

Gill Pattison paints a picture of Yangon's art world

To Myanmar With Love - tomyanmarwithlove [630]

Visiting crowded city apartment buildings and quiet rural back lanes, Gill Pattison discovers Myanmar's up-and-coming artists.

Destinations: Burma | Yangon
Topics: Culture | Art
To Myanmar With Love

John Buckley drops his pants in Yangon

To Myanmar With Love - tomyanmarwithlove [630]

Ready for a pants-free lifestyle? Join John Buckley as he learns how to wear the traditional Burmese longyi.

Destinations: Burma | Yangon
Topics: Culture
To Myanmar With Love

Ma Thanegi hungers for ethnic noodles around Yangon

To Myanmar With Love - tomyanmarwithlove [630]

When I am too lazy to cook, I stroll out to the shops in my neighborhood, where I can get oodles of noodles from dawn until midnight. This is one advantage of living in Yangon, the country's largest...

Destinations: Burma | Yangon
Topics: Culture | Food | Traditions

Raise a Glass to Aythaya Wine

Natnapha Thanatharakit - the_orient [430]

Myanmar Vineyard has been making Aythaya wine since 1997, among Buddhist monasteries on the slopes of Aythaya's Taunggyi Mountains, in Myanmar. Be sure to include a tasting in your tour of Burma.

Destinations: Shan State | Pagan | Nyaung U | Nyaungshwe | Inle Lake | Sagaing | Mandalay | Amarapura | Bagan | Yangon
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Women & Travel | Traditions | Culture | Food | People | Agriculture | Nature

Burma

Michael McDonell - mmcdonell [329]

"Fear Is Very Much A Habit" -Aung San Suu Kyi, 1996 She's 21 and speaks English very well. She studied in the university that is now closed. They all are. Closed for more than 18 months and no one...

Destinations: Burma | Yangon
Topics: Culture | Travel | People

Raise the Bamboo Curtain: A Journey into Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam

Steven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,770]

The travel documentary Raise the Bamboo Curtain opens with a beautifully filmed sunrise sequence of ancient temples and fishermen quietly casting their nets into a tranquil Asian river. With jarring...

Destinations: Burma | Yangon
Topics: Culture | Literature
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