Burma: A Blink At Burma
Myanmar conjures images of sickening military rule and repression. But the purr of Burma, as the country was formerly known, paints a different picture entirely. Suzanne Wright cruises Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River, glimpsing the beautiful Burma at this Asian nation's heart.
I had to blink several times to be sure my eyes weren't deceiving me: yes, there was a flotilla of multicoloured lanterns – 2,003 to be exact – bobbing on the surface of the Irrawaddy (now known as Ayeyarwady) River under an inky night sky in Burma.
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