| Burma -- Links |
| (in progress) |
| Travelogues |
| Tales
of Asia -- Myanmar -- Gordon Sharpless' (of Cambodia Today fame) travelogue of his 2000 trip to Burma. Interestingly enough, his trip was the same length as mine and followed almost the same path! |
| Burma Pages -- Backpacking in the Golden Land |
| -- Bernard Heiser's photo travelogue of his 5-week trip in late 2000. |
| Doug Burnett's Travelogues |
| -- World traveler Burnett's recap of his February 2001 trip to Yangon, Bagan, and Mandalay. A bit naive at times (eg. "Yangon reminded me of India [...] with essentially none of the problems."), but still informative. |
| Photography |
| Burma: Grace Under Pressure |
| -- Flash-based site by Geoffrey Hiller with photos, text, and audio collected during a 3-week trip in 2000. |
| Ayeyarwady: Myanmar/Burma Photo Gallery |
| -- A lot of photos from all over Myanmar, from self-described "Myanmar freak" and professional photographer Goto Osami of Japan, who at last count has been to Myanmar 7 times. |
| Burmese Days |
| -- Dutch traveler and photographer Alex Sievers' gallery of wonderful photos from Burma, in a nicely laid-out site. The rest of his site is well worth checking out as well. |
| asiaphoto.com |
| -- Freelance travel writers and photographers Annemarie and Holli Hollitzer's section of their site devoted to Burma. |
| Politics |
| Burma Project |
| -- Part of soros.org, best place to go for the latest Burma news, with a good links page as well. Click on the "publications" headings for extensive bibliographic listings of books on Burma. |
| Free at Last |
| -- TIMEasia.com's special feature on Aung San Suu Kyi and the current political situation in Burma, on the occassion of Suu Kyi's May 2002 release from house arrest. Includes an archive of the magazine's interviews and stories about Burma dating back 6 years. |
| Free Burma Coalition |
| -- A good place to start with respect to the various political actions and boycotts involving Burma. |
| The Irrawaddy |
| -- Online journal focused primarily on Burma, with in-depth articles and interviews. |
| Myanmar.com |
| -- Official site of the SPDC (Burma's ruling military junta), fairly useless beyond its retro "Heaven's Gate" web design, with assorted strange links to sites like "Why did U Khun Sa's MTA exchange arms for peace". |
| Travel Information |
| Passplanet.com |
| -- A lot of good tips and "backpacker" info here, from other travelers. |
| Burma Tour |
| -- An as yet unfinished part of the se-asia.com site, with travel information and other useful things, like an introduction to numbers in the Burmese script. |
| Yangonow |
| -- Travel and cultural information, as well as essays on Yangon (primarily), from Japanese expats living there. Includes among many other things a guide to Yangon fortune-tellers and an illustrated step-by-step recipe for making mohinga. |