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...rent: a tropical island in the Andaman Sea, covered in primary rain forest and fringed by coral reefs. Current occupants: hermit crabs, several varieties of snake, geckos, bats, rats, shrews, birds and the occasional sea turtle visiting the beach to lay her eggs. Going cheap at $100 a year...
That is all about aesthetics: restaurants lack name signs to avoid any suggestion of commercialism. At Amanpuri, chilled bottled water flows freely at poolside and on the beach. A floating dock in the Andaman Sea is supplied with towels and water. Beach sand is sprayed with cold water so it is not hot to the touch. Such gestures clearly impress the class of repeat visitors, dubbed Aman junkies. Bernadette Tyrrell, a 33-year-old London stockbroker, has splashed out at Amanresorts seven times with her husband, an oil trader. "We all have nice houses," she says...
...great temple cities, 800-year-old Pagan (see Detour), lies alongside the great Irrawaddy River in the central west. Upriver is the cultural capital Mandalay, in the east stunning Inle Lake offers towns on stilts and floating island farms, and peerless beaches fringe the Bay of Bengal and countless Andaman Sea islands...
...catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats along the Mekong. Other, less adventurous souls simply sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe simplicity of Ko Phangan, an island free of electricity, where beachside huts go for as little as $1 a day. Travel from one idyll to the next...
From Mandalay in the central plain to Moulmein on the Andaman Sea, Burma burst into flames last week, the spark provided by protest and bloodshed, the oxygen by rumor. In Sagaing, a city of 70,000 in the center of the country, security forces opened up with shotguns on a crowd of 5,000 that was converging on a police station, and 31 people were reported killed. In the suburbs of Rangoon, the capital, three policemen were reported to have been beheaded by enraged mobs. Word of mutinies by military units in the north and east flickered through the country...