by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
A natural extension of a man who has seen much and done much, of a life that escapes the box. He is currently writing his biography and has published several excerpts on his website. Collected here are various essays and poems.
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
Arakan State PDF Print E-mail The rust bucket which passed as a ship blew its shrill whistle, and the last scurrying sarong clad passengers hurried across the gang plank as we cast off from Sittwe in Arakan state before 6 am. Arakan state borders Bangladesh to the...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
Kachin state: In search of the amber earrings, and the story of one soldier who never went home. Kachin state was an area of Burma that had just recently opened up due to the cease fire signed in 1993 between the Kachin independence army, or K.I.A, and the Burmese...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
I had first seen the “Golden Rock Of Kyaik-to” in a painting at the Inya lake hotel and was told that no tourist could go there. The golden boulder was perched atop a solid granite outcrop, jutting out from the side of a mountain in Burma’s Mon...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
I woke up at 4:30 am to catch the flight on Myanmar air from Rangoon, capitol of Burma, to Sittwe in Arakan state which borders Bangladesh. Only 45 minutes later we arrived at the small airport with the crumbling blue sign proclaiming “Sittwe airport.” Locals pay the...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
In September 2000, Andrew Marshall a scotsman and I set out from Kunming China, travelling to the Wa autonomous region near the border with Burma in search of a fabled lake called Nawng Hkeo on the Burmese side of the border. This lake had not been seen by any...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
It is not that the mountains of Burma are more pointed than mountains elsewhere. If you were to look closely, you could see that nearly every one of them is crowned with a pagoda spire rising ever upwards. To the south of Mt. Popa, an eroded volcanic throat of...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
By Richard K Diran, professional gemologist In every trade and business where big money is involved, the unscrupulous will find a way of separating the naive and the greedy from their cash. Fake antiques, fake paintings, fake coins and fake gemstones. Here in...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
The north-western area of Burma is known as Naga land. Naga land had been off-limits for a half century, and the last comprehensive book on the Naga, the naked Naga by Christoph Von Fureh Haimendorf, had been published in 1939. The Naga were and probably still are, in...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
Although Burma herself is viewed and vilified, particularly in the west, as a pariah, the acts of kindness by the people themselves reflects a far deeper kind of cultural compassion. I have been a frequent visitor to the country for over 20 years and have been witness...
