Deep in the Waterways of Myanmar
by Nicholas Walton
Laughing and leaping across puddles as wide as jacuzzis, the children seem completely unfazed by the torrential rain as they scamper through the tiny village of Sitthaung, a line of foreigners following in their wake. Water gleams off their umbrellas as they wind their way across rice paddy dykes and around ambivalent water buffalo. The kids are obviously very excited; tourists are rather rare on the further reaches of this mighty waterway, especially here in tiny Sitthaung, a village of only 25 stilted thatch homes, but a new river cruiser from Orient Express is reaching further into Burma than ever before.
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Laughing and leaping across puddles as wide as jacuzzis, the children seem completely unfazed by the torrential rain as they scamper through the tiny village of Sitthaung, a line of foreigners following in their wake. Water gleams off their umbrellas as they wind their way across rice paddy dykes and around ambivalent water buffalo. The kids are obviously very excited; tourists are rather rare on the further reaches of this mighty waterway, especially here in tiny Sitthaung, a village of only 25 stilted thatch homes, but a new river cruiser from Orient Express is reaching further into Burma than ever before.
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Beyond Doorways Travel designs custom travel for individuals, families and small groups. We are certified as a Verified Travel Consultant by the Airlines Reporting Corporation .We are passionate about meaningful, uncommon, out-of-the-ordinary travel experiences. In 2008, we began to ask our friends and colleagues to share their travel stories with us, and with those first stories launched the online editorial site. Since then, we've featured micro-enterprise in East Africa; hiking the Camino de Santiago; climbing in the Dolomites; a Greek wedding in Venice; volunteering in Haiti; urban walks in Hong Kong and London; Northern Ireland; the waterways of Myanmar; an Indo-Fijian wedding and more.
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