Since 1996 the Myanmar government has sponsored a campaign ... We putter slowly toward a distant spit of land crowned with a golden stupa: Eya village. The last village on the Irrawaddy.

Myanmar is a land of old history and rich traditions; it has thousands of pagodas that are the spiritual hearts of the nation ...

Climbing a small, scrubby hill behind the little riverside town of Mrauk U, a dreamy landscape reveals itself, of centuries-old stupas wreathed ... the western corner of Myanmar, with poor ...

However, the magnificence of the stupas stretching out in a 60 mile radius cannot be denied ... which was discovered by some workers when the railway was being built in the area in the 1930’s. Myanmar ...