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information without mud sling politics. Burma and the rest of the world don't understand each other most of the time, but this has political reasons. Here are excellent pictures and videos of great Burmese people and nature. Our website is somehow visually oriented with lots of pictures taken and collected over more than a decade including old shoots from Anglo Burma times and before. Burma has a great nature to explore and is a ideal exotic travel destination, in the north the extensions of the Tibetan Himalayas and all the way down into the Andaman Sea via the Mergui Archipelago to the southernmost tip at Kawthaung opposite Ranong in Thailand.

Burma teak, Burmese rubies and jade

in form of jadeite. There is also a very interesting and creative music scene, this means classic or folklore music and modern pop, in between are all variants. Burmese girls are well known not only since Kipling, also today there are plenty of very pretty girls, most of the time wrapped up in long costumes and traditional longiys.

about 2000 km (1300 miles) long, from the lofty mountains of the Burmese Himalayas in the north to the tropical waters of the Andaman Sea at Kawthaung, the former Victoria Point opposite Ranong in Thailand.

From east to west Burma is about 900 km (570 miles) from the Naaf river on the Bangladesh border to the Mekong river at the border to Laos. A horseshoe of mountains extending from the Tibetan Himalayas forms the natural mountain border of Burma with Bangladesh and India in the west, with China in the north and northeast, and with Laos and Thailand in the east and southeast. Where the three borders of China, India and Burma meet is the Diphu Pass, a strategic important point. Mountain streams from these slopes flow south to make the twin-rivulets Meikha and Malikha, which later conjoin (just above the Kachin capital Myitkyina) to form the Irrawaddy River.

Mount Hkakaborazi (5885 meters or 19296 ft.), is the highest peak in Burma and South East Asia, lies in Naungmong township, Kachin State, at the very north of Burma. The snow peaks of the northern Burmese mountains would be a ideal place to ski, they have been explored by several British adventurer, the military, nature lover and botanists during Anglo Burmese or colonial times.

Those few adventurers to the northern mountain jungle of Burma did the first research about plants and wildlife in Burma. Unfortunately in present days 20xx plenty of

fortunes hunters from China destroy the fragile eco system after they were stopped to do so in China. Tree cutting by Chinese denudes and destroys northern Burma.From north to south, three Burmese mountain systems with tropical jungle dominates the geography. On the west side its the Arakan or Rakhine Yoma, on the east side the Bago Yoma and further north the Shan Plateau with the beautiful Inle Lake. The mountain ranges divide the country into three parallel river valleys, the

Burmese Irrawaddy,

the Sittang and the Thanlwin River. The blue mountains also form the natural border to southern Thailand all the way down to Kawthaung.

At all this places you will find nice Burmese people as you can see in the photos and videos. The Irrawaddy valley is more or less the center. The great Burmese Irrawaddy River river flows through three different climatic region : the Kachin heights in the temperate north.

The Burmese dry belt starts at the old capital Mandalay down to the ancient Pyu capital Pyi (Prome) and empty the brown waters through the flat Irrawaddy river delta around the former Burma capital Rangoon into the Andaman Sea. The Burmese Andaman Sea is part of the Indian Ocean.

Burma was conquered by the British colonialists

in the 19. Century and they been there until independence in 1948. In 1990 the country's name was changed to Myanmar (which means all national races and is a expression already used before the British declared the name Burma) to better reflect all the diversity of ethnic groups. The country is also known as the "Land of Pagodas and Temples" and "The Golden Land" since golden pagodas are almost everywhere in the country.

Burma has approximately 45 million people who are divided into over 130 recognized ethnic groups. Burma has borders with Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand and the Andaman Sea is on the Westside. Burma is famous for jade, ruby, pearls and all kind of other gems, plus the famous Burma teak.

The landscape of Burma is very divers, from the snow capped mountains of the Burma Himalaya, pristine beaches all along the west coast and on the over 800 islands in the Andaman Sea, most islands are concentrated in the Mergui or Myeik Archipelago. Plus the lowland plains with the

Mount Popa with 1518 meters in central Burma, very close to Bagan is an extinct volcano with a Monastery and pagodas built on the top, the best view is from another close by hill, its a real landmark in the central Burma plains. Bagan attracts plenty of cultural interested people as a unique temple and pagoda city with a magnitude easily matching the Pyramids of Egypt, Maya Temples and similar. Probably the best trip in the country is a combination of Mrauk U, Bagan, Mandalay, Rangoon, Inle Lake and after relax at the one of the beach resorts on the west coast or south Burma.

Further east are the Pindaya Caves on the Shan plateau close to Lake Inle. Limestone caves in the hills are home to thousands of 6000 Buddha images, statues and sculptures. Not far away is the famous Inle Lake with floating villages, monasteries, floating gardens and the "leg rower". Inle lake is at 700 meters above seas level and home of the Pa-O tribe and the Intha, the Intha migrated from Mon State to this area a couple of hundred years ago.