Myanmar: Can Myanmar’s ‘Lost World’ Survive Tourism?

May 3, 2014 | Denis D. Gray, The Seattle Times
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Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar’s southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints.

Here in the islands of the Mergui archipelago, hornbills break a primeval silence as they flutter through soaring jungle canopy. Pythons slumber on the gnarled roots of eerie mangrove forests. Only rarely will you spot the people who live here: the Moken, shy, peaceful nomads of the sea.