My Cruise to Burma and Southeast Asia

Come Aboard My Cruise to Burma and Southeast Asia

"This is Burma," Rudyard Kipling wrote more than a hundred years ago, "and it will be quite unlike any land you know about." Yes, indeed, Mr. Kipling. Yes, indeed.

Burma has been on my radar for years. I've traveled or cruised to every other country in Southeast Asia, but this one destination had eluded me. My hesitation was equal parts philosophical opposition to the brutal military regime -- which had its fist clenched around everything, including the tourist industry, for 25 years -- and a nervous tickle about personal safety.

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