a country which has bee vandalized by the British colonialist for almost 200 years before WW2. Luckily
the
country
started
to wake
up at
the
beginning
of the
19xx but
it still
took
until
2011 to
see some
substantial
progress
and
tourism
could be
a means
of
recovery.
The
country
is well
connected
to all
major
capitals
in Asia
via
Rangoon
Airport
and has
plenty
of good
hotels
at the
interesting
places
in the
country,
that
includes
excellent
beach
resorts
at
Ngapali,
Ngwe
Saung,
Chaungtha
and
elsewhere.
Also
major
travel
destinations
such as
Rangoon,
Mandalay,
Inle Lake,
Bagan
etc.
have
enough
above
average
accommodations,
the only
real
problem
is
electricity
and very
unhygienic
environments
outside
the
bigger
hotels
and
restaurants.
Very
often
Burma
news
today
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| Bagan Temples and Pagodas |
about
the
country
are
negatively
dramatized
from the
BBC and other "Western Media", the
front
end of
the old
colonial
master
and
other
media
and
publications.
The
Anglo
Burmese
relationship
never
was a
good one
since
the very
early
colonial colonial times since the English considered themselves as the master the other should follow, partly they even do it today although they are a secondary country, they just don't know it, or maybe don't want to know it.
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| Burma - Myanmar map |
Burma, just behind south Asia Indian peninsula has always been an exotic country that enriched the world with monuments of Buddhist religion and very diversified ethnicity.
Already in the first centuries of our era some mighty political systems have been existing within the boundaries of today Burma. This was Lower Burma or Mon State and Central or Upper Burma with the Pyu and the coastal areas at the Bay of Bengal which was then Arakan, today Rakhine.
The continuous process of developing cities, agriculture, architecture and art lead to impressive monuments we still can see today, although decay and fire wiped out many of them there is still an amazingly rich cultural heritage including fine arts of the middle ages of our dimensions.
Although Burma has great influences from India in terms of religion, philosophical and linguistic it developed in its own way and created new arts and culture. The ideological basis of Indian art and culture was based on Hinduism and Buddhism, next to Christianity and Islam, one of the three rough world religions which developed in north India.
During the first centuries of our era the religious and philosophical teaching of Buddhism spread over all countries of the Far East and South East Asia and was an important factor of the development of China, Japan and all countries of Indochina. Buddhism found its most active adherents in the circles of the ruling and privileged society. They not only patronized the new religion, but demanded their own way of propagation, popularization and consolidating. All this happen over several hundreds of years and most history of that time is still buried in the darkness of the past.
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| Ancient Pagoda from 14 Century at Pyay |
It was in India during the time of the third ruler of the Mauryan dynasty of King Ashoka and
King Kanishka, the third ruler of the Kushan Dynasty (2nd century CE), in Ceylon, in the 3rd century CE and the Japan of the 7th Century, Tibet in the 7th Century in Burma (Anawrathas; 1044-1077), in which all this somehow settled and started new developments.
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