OK, we know it’s been a while now and we are very behind with the blog, so in answer to the people who suggested it should be our new year’s resolution to update it more often we have decided, new year, new start (well, almost)! Here is our Myanmar missive and we will be going back and adding the missing bits (Tibet, Nepal and India) as and when we get the opportunity to do so. So, to Burma (or the Union of Myanmar to give it its current name) - a place we discussed visiting long and hard. Do our tourist dollars support an illegal and corrupt government? Should we listen to the leader of the opposition party, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently under house arrest (illegally, apparently) after winning the last ‘free’ election
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