Word: sitakunda
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...traveling into the precipitous jungle hills bordering Burma to visit indigenous tribes (see Detour). But check on security: it was here insurgents took two Danes and a Briton hostage in February. (Soldiers freed them a month later.) You can also take a 20-minute motorcycle-taxi ride north to Sitakunda, one of the great graveyards of the sea. At first glance, it seems like just another coastal town on the way to somewhere else. But behind the row of one- and two-story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores of ships run aground, groaning as their...
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