Travelers to Myanmar have to change their clocks upon arrival - half an hour back, if they are coming from Thailand or Laos to the east. In some ways you feel that thirty-minute difference in Myanmar, ...

Referred to as Myanmar by the military junta, Burma is being hailed as "the next Thailand", a country seldom visited at present but one that promises to eclipse its neighbours in popularity. It’s dawn ...

While most people flock to countries like Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam when they’re looking for a Southeast Asia adventure, there’s one destination that they’ll be sad they overlooked. Dotted with ...

This Black travel movement is no joke. We’re out here touring the world in record numbers, like never before. One look at social media and you can see us living it up in Miami, wandering the streets ...

There's an old joke I heard a few times during my recent travels around Burma. Each retelling differed slightly, but it basically went something like this: It was around 2004, and George W. Bush, ...

A series of events has helped draw the world's eyes to Burma over the last year — and for once it's not all negative attention. The release of political leader and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi ...

There aren’t any,” says the hotelier with an embarrassed laugh when I ask about the best tourist attractions in Burma’s new capital. That’s no surprise, really. Naypyidaw–the name translates as “Abode ...

BAGAN, Myanmar — Mr. Aye has a round, aged face and a wide, betel-nut-stained smile. Like many Burmese, he punctuates his speech with giggling, which can be alarming to a Westerner. “Just three years ...