Burma - where the 21st-century world has barely intruded

Why go?In the three years since Aung San Suu Kyi announced that she would welcome “responsible tourism”, Burma, a country that many avoided at her request, has become one that everyone wants to see. There are some extraordinary sights: the wonder of Pagan’s plain of a thousand temples, the leg-rowing fishermen of Inle Lake, and the glittering gold stupa of Rangoon’s Shwedagon Pagoda.