From “The Land of Smiles” to “The Land of Golden Pagodas”: Our Failed Attempt to Explore Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago
Our destination was Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago, also known as the Mergui Archipelago, a chain of some 800 islands stretched across nearly 400 kilometers between the southern ports of Myeik and Kawthaung. We end up being denied entry, but rediscovered an important gift that only comes from slow travel. The countries you pass through have voices, faces and heartbeats and a country’s greatest resource isn’t its beaches, or temples, or oil fields: it’s its people.