So all good things must come to an end. Our G Adventures group flew into Yangon from the closest airport to Inle Lake, the very strangely named Heho Airport. On the way back to our hotel from Yangon airport, we passed the house of Aung San Suu Kyi. In the 1990 elections her NLD party won 81% of the seats in Parliament, but the results were nullified, as the military refused to hand over power, resulting in an international outcry. She had, however, already been d...

"This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about" said Rudyard Kipling over a 100 years ago. Still true today and it is with a sense of wonder we discover the quirks and differences that makes Myanmar, as it is known today, so different from other parts of South East Asia.First indicator is transport. Our taxi from Yangon airport to our hotel has the driver on the right hand side, but then we quickly see that traffic drives on the right too. It seems so ...