Burma’s great river, the Irrawaddy, runs from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean – and the best way to explore it is on a cruise, says Gill Charlton Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

I HAD BEEN ON THE RIVER for only a few hours when I encountered the raft—a basketball-court- size hulk of bamboo poles bound together with vines. I’d never seen ...

Luxury hospitality brand Belmond, formerly Orient Express, has offered glamour and grit on Burma’s Irrawaddy River since 1996 with its 50-year-old German river cruiser Road to Mandalay.

Sunrises dazzle in the morning river fog. Sunsets do the same when filtered through smoke rising from the burning stubble of rice fields. You find pleasant splashes of color everywhere during a voyage ...

Joseph embarks on an Irrawaddy River adventure from golden pagodas to colorful markets, from working villages to frenzied cities where unimagined new sights, sounds, smells and emotions capture ...

Delft University of Technology's Thom Bogaard (R) and Rolf Hut (L) have been showing students in Myanmar how to build low-cost instruments to monitor the behaviour of the Irrawaddy River. At its ...