Itinerary in the heart of Burma.

My travel itinerary surprised at least one: A sort of travel agency in Yangon to which I addressed a few weeks ago to know the prices of some short journeys (short ones ie 4-5 hours ) By car, to which I transmitted my itinerary and who had to wonder why after each stage I always returned to Yangon. The Burmese are very polite and very delicate to avoid susceptibilities. But I understood in the subtitles that the suggestion they were trying to suggest was to take a driver and trim on the road for several weeks. I know the roads of Burma, it’s nice at first and it’s an opportunity to see interesting things, but the plane saves a lot of time and a lot of energy. So a little road and a lot little of plane.

The itinerary in detail. The forbidden zones are in red (infographie of the site http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr – Ariane) in fact it is a bit all the border zones where one finds the ethnies which seek to gain a “certain” independence. And the red is well chosen because it pulls and it heats. So the west in the region of the Arakan of Sittwe and Mrauk-U, superb region, but closed,,

An orange zone along the coast is deprecated, except for an island of calm around the beautiful beaches of Nagpali, … ouf …, otherwise for this state of Arakan, it is the problem of cohabitation with the minority Muslim, the Rohingya which creates “tensions”. On the east side: Kentung, Hispaw and Mogok where I was also in 2016, closed in 2017, it also heats up between the army and the ethnic groups and Chinese neighbors start to grow and tense because the shots are sometimes poorly targeted , And in spite of the border, there are bullets passing through causing “collateral” damage. All this to explain if necessary that in this country there are also constraints of itinerary linked to the direction of the wind and the turbulences. Quiet, windless areas are in the center. So it’s a bit of a coincidence, but I did not foresee these places as a stopover in my itinerary, which is quite classical, because I will mainly try to meet Burmese and leave a little ruins , Vestiges and landscapes in the background without denying the interest.← Looking at this map of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I realize that it is much clearer than the one I have sketched, although it explains something else. Mapping is really a profession …