Month: February 2016
Posted on February 28, 2016
Thanaka: The Light of Myanmar
If you go to Myanmar, you will see people with a paste that looks like face paint on their faces. It is actually called “thanaka,” and it is much more than face paint. People have used thanaka in Myanmar for …
Updated on February 24, 2016
Golden Sunsets in Bagan
For years, I have dreamed of Burma. In my imaginings, it was a land outside of time: golden temples, untouched hillsides, mysterious histories, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner under house arrest. But there were always reasons not to …
Updated on September 1, 2016
At School in Cambodia
On my second trip to Cambodia, fourteen years after the first, the temples of Angkor still astounded. The scale of the vision, the intricacy of the architecture, the skill of the artisanship. For five hundred years, Cambodia controlled …
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