Picture credits: Flickr/Travel Aficionado It’s been in the air for a while, buzzing among the Southeast Asian traveler’s enclave, and making the day of many resolute overlanders. We all knew that the Golden land of Myanmar was changing. After the liberation of Aung San Suu Kyi, punk rockers storming the streets of Yangon, and everyone...

Burmese Light - Impressions of the Golden Land by Hans Kemp and Tom Vater Visionary World, 2013 ( buy on Amazon ) “Impressions of the Golden Land” is quite an apt subtitle for Burmese Light as this book literally brings to the table (a coffee-table, to be precise) two kinds of impressions. The visual impressions...

Picture credit: Hans Kemp/Burmese Light Visionary World from Hong Kong is about to release "Burmese Light" , a pictorial travel book assembled by photographer Hans Kemp and travel writer Tom Vater . The project is an attempt to capture the current changing situation of Myanmar, a country that, despite its troubled past, is making waves...

Moral dilemma: there's a country with wonderful sites you'd love to see, but your tourist dollars might end up in the pockets of a military regime. Should you still go? That's the central theme in this New York Times article: Visiting Myanmar: It's Complicated . Since the nation has made small steps toward political reform,...