Hammock time

Bye Bye Burma

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December 11th 2015
We'd been three months on the road by this point, so we decided we deserved a bit of beach time. We took a night bus down to Yangon from Inle Lake and then on to Ngwe Saung Beach, on the west coast. We weren't expecting a huge amount from Ngwe Saung - the guidebooks describe it as not quite the nicest beach in Western Burma, let alone competing with it's Thai rivals further down the coast. When ... read more

Asia » Burma » Yangon Region

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Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886) and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth wa... ... read more