In Far-Flung Myanmar, a Land of Contradictions

It is strange how some of the world’s most retrograde authoritarian states end up being such inadvertent conservators of both their country’s architectural heritage and vast tracts of wild, unspoiled nature. Of course, it was not their leaders’ intention to distinguish themselves as environmentalists or conservationists, but by so abjectly failing to develop viable economic engines, they nonetheless had this providential effect.