Yangon has to be one of the world's noisiest cities.

Correction: Myanmar has to be one of their world's noisiest countries.

You'd think that given the relative isolation of Myanmar, there would be an equally relative degree of silence, calm and peace and quiet. Not so. This current trip is really...

“Myanmar politics are the most complicated in the world,” said Daw Kong, director of the Kachin research and information network, as we settled down for tea and conversation on a hilltop near the Chinese border.

After three weeks in the small pocket of northern Myanmar held by the Kachin...

DAMN, it's been hard to keep my mouth shut. 

As you probably know by now, I love to babble about my travels - where I've been, where I'm going, the dirty details of my latest existential crisis. 

But my trip to the far north of Myanmar had to be kept secret.  I didn't have a Myanmar...

Im not sure if you guys have been keeping tabs on whats going on in the
news. Aside from Britney Spear's meltdown (although I hate to admit,
but I have been sucked into it as well), there are more pertinent
things that have been overshadowed by such pop culture and voyeuristic
"news." Burma (a.k.a....

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