Myanmar: Is Mergui Archipelago Tourism a Force for Good?

Aug 26, 2014 | The Telegraph
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Beyond the guard rail of the yacht I was sailing on lay the same islands – still lonely, still largely untouched by civilisation though from sea level they resemble not so much beads as fin-backed clumps of rainforest rising vertically from the blue. This is the Mergui Archipelago, a chain of islands (800 is the round number generally agreed on) scattered across the Andaman Sea, just where the Malay Peninsula breathes in to create its hourglass figure.