Myanmar Geography

The geography placed as it between vast millstones,

from India it has received the religion, which more than any other factor has molded the people. 
From there also came the earliest impulse of civilization.

English colonial time

The influence of China was less,  this also has something to do with Buddhism and the English colonial times. Today Burma tries to open up to the tourism age and offer a outstanding cultural environment in places as Bagan, Mandalay, Yangon, Mrauk U, the Myanmar Himalayas, the islands in the Andaman Sea and countless of other places. 

Chinese joss house

Wherever you go you will see gorgeous pagodas and temples plus great people of about 130 different ethnic groups. Most of them are deep anchored in Buddhism. On successive occasions they have been called upon to resist with all its power the military aggression of the northern neighbor ; on one notable occasion it received through them a blow from which its civilization has never recovered ; and from time to time it has gone some way towards accepting the suzerainty of China. But the influence has been social rather than political. 

Myanmar country side

near the northern border

But the mountains which have hitherto preserved the nationality are no longer a protection. The sea had opened the flood gates of invasion, and under the political supremacy of colonial England people from India started to invade. 

Of these mountains which reach down like the fingers of a hand from the great arm of the Himalaya to make the country the first are the Arakan or Rakhine Yoma, known as the Mountains of the West.

Rakhine , Arakan at Gulf of Bengal

On one side of them there lies the sea (the Bay of Bengal) - on the other the Irrawaddy river. The habitable land along their               sea-swept threshold is known as Arakan or Rakhine the home of a great branch of the people. Just the right destination for great adventure journeys, in our site you find the right information for it. One of the very positive is, the country is very safe, almost no criminality and no mad terrorists around.

It runs some 2000 km (1300 miles) north and south.

 

Naaf River at Rakhine

In the west – east direction from the Naaf river on the Bangladesh border, to the Mekong the distance is about 900 km (570 miles).

This area is real beautiful and pure, unfortunately there are hordes of Chinese poachers coming in and cut all accessible trees, sooner or later no accessible forests left since in the whole north of the country extensive logging is under way to satisfy the Chinese and Indian market for quick cash.