View post: Two Replica Star Wars Fighters To Be Displayed at Major U.S. Museum I HAD BEEN ON THE RIVER for only a few hours when I encountered the raft—a basketball-court- size hulk of bamboo poles ...

In its heyday in the 1920s, the fabled Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. transported millions of passengers each year along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar (formerly Burma) with a fleet of more than 600 vessels.

Responding to luxury traveler demand for historic tours of Myanmar via the Irrawaddy River, The Strand Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, is now offering journeys on the waterway via the new The Strand Cruise.

Over the last 14 years, waterbirds in Myanmar's Irrawddy River declined by 60% to 90% depending on the species. Scientists working for Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Manfred Hermsen Foundation ...

The driver swerved around pedestrians, motorbikes and mules as our hired SUV sped through Mandalay on a hot July day. Riding in the back seat, I gripped the headrest in front of me and hung on for ...

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the 21st century still living in stilted teak and bamboo homes, their livestock grazing nearby as they wash clothes or bathe in the river, taking clay ...

“You see those dead trees?” the village leader asked me, gesturing toward an island in the Irrawaddy River here in central Myanmar. The low-lying island was so far across the river that I could barely ...

SAMBOR, CAMBODIA — It’s 5:30 p.m., and several tourist boats linger in the middle of the Mekong River. A blood-orange sun casts a warm glow across the milky brown water, making it the ideal time to ...

Numbers of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekong River have risen from 80 in 2015 to 92 in 2017, according to WWF-Cambodia. The WWF team has found other signs of improvements in the Mekong ...

7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, crossing river. Taken by Frederick Weedman 1944 It was on the 24 February 1945, that the 7th Battalion, the Worcestershire Regiment attempted to cross the ...