Burma/Mayanmar has opened up to tourism in the last year or two and record numbers are now visiting this beautiful, mesmerising country. All visitors to Burma will visit the ancient kingdom of Pagan ...

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 ...

563-483 B.C.: Life of Gotama, the Buddha, in India. c.300 A.D.: Indian traders bring Hindu religion and culture to Lower Burma, which is inhabited by Mons and Pyus, both peoples of Mongolian race who ...