Myanmar Feature

Explore Pagodas. Slip off your shoes and stare slack-jacked at Bagan's staggering spread of 2,200 untouched 11th- and 12th-century pagodas.

Sweat it Out. Spicy curries, giant chili-soaked prawns, and piquant salads help you beat the heat.

Travel Back in Time. The turn-of-the-century colonial buildings that line Rangoon's The Strand stand just as they did during British rule.

Be a Trailblazer. Burma is like China in 1979—cut off from the Western world but on the verge of changing rapidly.

Know Kindness. Burmese locals will welcome you warmly and the hard-sell experienced elsewhere doesn't exist.