Responding to luxury traveler demand for historic tours of Myanmar via the Irrawaddy River, The Strand Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, is now offering journeys on the waterway via the new The Strand Cruise.

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the 21st century still living in stilted teak and bamboo homes, their livestock grazing nearby as they wash clothes or bathe in the river, taking clay ...

WHY IT RATES: As river cruises increase in popularity, travelers should be aware of unique river cruise experiences in Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia with Rainforest Cruises. -Alex Temblador, ...

The driver swerved around pedestrians, motorbikes and mules as our hired SUV sped through Mandalay on a hot July day. Riding in the back seat, I gripped the headrest in front of me and hung on for ...

The Irrawaddy River dolphin is known as Cambodia's living treasure, but it is believed there are only 89 left in the country. They are found in the Krâchéh region and swim in the river. But those deep ...

“You see those dead trees?” the village leader asked me, gesturing toward an island in the Irrawaddy River here in central Myanmar. The low-lying island was so far across the river that I could barely ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma's pro-democracy opposition, has called for a halt to a massive Chinese hydropower project on the Irrawaddy river that has alarmed environmentalists and added to a ...

Numbers of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin in the Mekong River have risen from 80 in 2015 to 92 in 2017, according to WWF-Cambodia. The WWF team has found other signs of improvements in the Mekong ...