YANGON — Myanmar will give the green light to new hotels in its southernmost archipelago by the end of the year, officials say. The largely unspoilt Mergui archipelago comprises 800 islands in the ...

If you've never heard of the Mergui Archipelago, you're not alone. This cluster of 800 islands floating in the northeast corner of the Indian Ocean has been off-limits, off the grid and nearly off the ...

In the southernmost reaches of Burma (Myanmar), along the border with Thailand, lies the Mergui Archipelago. The archipelago in the Andaman Sea is made up of more than 800 islands surrounded by ...

Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar's southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints. Here hornbills break a primaeval silence as they ...

A chic, back-to-nature resort. Awei Pila, has opened recently in the remote tropical Mergui archipelago, off the coast of southern Myanmar and Thailand, offering exclusive seclusion and barefoot ...

We arrived in the Mergui Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean just off the southern coast of Myanmar, on a powerboat, following a bumpy two-hour ride from the port city of Kawthong. Tropical darkness had ...

THE Mergui Archipelago is taking off as a tourist drawcard. Here’s what you should know about the most popular of the islands. If you’re planning a trip to Myanmar, here’s what you should know about ...

The captain leapt up and bellowed down the deck: “Dolphins off the port side. A pod of them – a big one!” The other passengers and I had recently finished breakfast and were dozing in deck chairs. We ...

The life of Robinson Crusoe, or any other castaway for that matter, can’t have been exactly idyllic. The sands may have been golden, the waters azure, the island “delightfully unspoilt” – but what did ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For all of our evangelizing over pristine paradises and unspoiled beaches, we rarely, if ever, find ourselves in a position of ...