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Burma's Mergui Archipelago: Is tourism a force for good?


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Burma's Mergui Archipelago: Is tourism a force for good? As resort developers sense the money to be made in Burma's Mergui Archipelago, Nigel Richardson sails around its 800 islands and realises what is at stake
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Tourists on boats by the U Bein Bridge in Burma Photo: Fotolia/AP

In Biggles Delivers the Goods our eponymous goggled hero flies north over the Andaman Sea on a mission to thwart the Japanese: “To the right, the horizon was defined by a long dark stain that was the forest-clad hinterland of Lower Burma. Below the aircraft, like a string of green beads dropped carelessly on blue velvet, were the islands of the archipelago, lonely, untouched by civilisation…”.

Beyond the guard rail of the yacht I was sailing on lay the same islands – still lonely, still largely untouched by civilisation though from sea level they resemble not so much beads as fin-backed clumps of rainforest rising vertically from the blue. This is the Mergui Archipelago, a chain of islands (800 is the round number generally agreed on) scattered across the Andaman Sea, just where the Malay Peninsula breathes in to create its hourglass figure.

Continues here:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/riversandcanals/11050725/Burmas-Mergui-Archipelago-Is-tourism-a-force-for-good.html

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