There are few destinations on Earth that rival the untamed wilderness and primal seclusion of Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago. Captain Thomas Bruning knows this all too well. Since leaving his job as an ...

YANGON — Myanmar will give the green light to new hotels in its southernmost archipelago by the end of the year, officials say. The largely unspoilt Mergui archipelago comprises 800 islands in the ...

In the southernmost reaches of Burma (Myanmar), along the border with Thailand, lies the Mergui Archipelago. The archipelago in the Andaman Sea is made up of more than 800 islands surrounded by ...

If you've never heard of the Mergui Archipelago, you're not alone. This cluster of 800 islands floating in the northeast corner of the Indian Ocean has been off-limits, off the grid and nearly off the ...

Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar's southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints. Here hornbills break a primaeval silence as they ...

Where the Indian Ocean rolls toward Myanmar’s southwestern coast, a lacework of 800 islands rises, fringed with shimmering beaches of no footprints. Here in the islands of the Mergui archipelago, ...

In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014 photo, a woman belonging to Moken tribe, nomads of the sea, carries her child as she steps out of her canoe on Island 115 in Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar. Isolated for ...

A chic, back-to-nature resort. Awei Pila, has opened recently in the remote tropical Mergui archipelago, off the coast of southern Myanmar and Thailand, offering exclusive seclusion and barefoot ...

We arrived in the Mergui Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean just off the southern coast of Myanmar, on a powerboat, following a bumpy two-hour ride from the port city of Kawthong. Tropical darkness had ...

THE Mergui Archipelago is taking off as a tourist drawcard. Here’s what you should know about the most popular of the islands. If you’re planning a trip to Myanmar, here’s what you should know about ...