Behind the temple ruins of this ancient Myanmar city, lie tales of drama and inspiration Over 2,200 Buddhist ruins vie for attention in the fields of Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan. Each seems to ...
Announcer: Welcome to "Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope," where you join us as we accept the world's invitation to visit. Ha ha ha! Rosendo: Today on "Travelscope," I cruise through Myanmar, the land of ...
Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham and George Orwell wrote extensively of Burma’s colonial past. Its complicated present amid magnificent temples, life-sustaining rivers and 135 distinct ethnic groups ...
It's hard to imagine that there are people in the 21st century still living in stilted teak and bamboo homes, their livestock grazing nearby as they wash clothes or bathe in the river, taking clay ...
The earthquake leaves over 1,700 dead. "All temples and pagodas have collapsed," says a Mandalay resident, the country's second-largest city and the most devastated by the earthquake. In the heart of ...
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May in Pagan is low season for good reason. The relentless sun bakes its temple-strewn plain into a shimmering illusion of a chess gameif chess had 2,217 pieces, rather than 34. At midday even mad ...