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Promoting Responsible Travel to Burma

  1. Traveling in Burma

    Posted by Emma Larkin
    / May 30, 2011 /
    Countries governed by military dictatorships are not generally renowned as prime holiday destinations, and Burma is no exception. Unless you’re o­n a pre-organized package tour, there is nothing easy or relaxing about traveling through Burma. Take, for example, o­ne of the most basic transactions necessary o­n arrival in a new...
    Posted in Travelers
    Topics: bureaucracy, electricity, freedom of press, health care, internet, transportation
  2. Pindaya Cave

    Posted by editor
    / May 16, 2011 /
    photo: Lazak
    Posted in Photos
  3. Ceramic Pots on the Beach

    Posted by editor
    / May 16, 2011 /
    photo: Lazak
    Posted in Photos
  4. Coconuts

    Posted by editor
    / May 16, 2011 /
    photo: Lazak
    Posted in Photos
  5. Colonial-Style Houses

    Posted by editor
    / May 16, 2011 /
    photo: Lazak
    Posted in Photos
  6. Guiding the Blind

    Posted by Christoph Amthor
    / May 15, 2011 /
    Photo taken in 2006 on the compound of a pagoda. (photo: Amthor)
    Posted in Photos
  7. Two Children on an Elephant’s Back

    Posted by editor
    / May 13, 2011 /
    The photo, taken on June 2nd 2010, shows two children in a Karen village on the back of an elephant. They told a KHRG field researcher that they earn money to support their families by hiring out the elephant, for example to carry firewood. What first might look to the...
    Posted in Photos
    Topics: child labor
  8. “Holiday” in Burma

    Posted by Bart Copwell
    / May 11, 2011 /
    For most people, running down the street while avoiding marching troops, clouds of tear gas, and randomly fired bursts of machine guns would hardly qualify as a vacation. While it wasn’t relaxing, my trip to Burma turned out to be a fascinating look at a society where the tension between...
    Posted in Travelers
    Topics: freedom of assembly, Yangon

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