Burma on the Mend – January 2012

by Gregg Butensky » 8 February 2012 at 8:03 pm

Last year, as we prepared to leave Bangkok for Rangoon, my girlfriend Bo contemplated bringing her rollable luggage. My foster daughter – who is from Burma but was then living in Thailand—laughed. “You can’t roll your luggage in Burma—the sidewalks are too broken!” That’s not the only thing broken in Burma, I thought to myself. […]

The Burma Travel Boycott and the Founding of Ethical Traveler

by Ethical Traveler » 13 June 2011 at 8:06 pm

It’s one of those common fantasy questions. If you could spend half an hour with any person on the planet, who would that person be? At any time during the past two decades, I would have answered without hesitation – Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. […]