With over 800 islands to explore, journeying to the Mergui Archipelago ,Myanmar offers a unique area both above water as well as below. credit: Will Strathmann | The Golden Land Myanmar

Journey with us along Myanmar’s Nam Mao River 🚣‍♂️ From around 1200, the Shan people (a Burmese ethnic group) began to expand their territory, eventually covering areas of modern-day Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and China 🗺 This polychromatic map depicts the convergence of three Shan states – the area is marked with green towns and bordered by multicoloured mountains 🎨⛰ During in the late 1880s, British colonial authorities began to impose geographical borders between regions in Myanmar – politic