A view of Done Nyaung Hmine village in Kyunsu township, Tanintharyi region. (Eleven Media)

A fishing village has become the latest excuse to visit the Myeik Archipelago after the local community began welcoming visitors this week.

A view of Done Nyaung Hmine village in Kyunsu township, Tanintharyi region. (Eleven Media)

A fishing village has become the latest excuse to visit the Myeik Archipelago after the local community began welcoming visitors this week.

A visitor sits above a blanket of clouds at Cloudy Villa in northern Shan State. (Cloudy Villa / Facebook)

What locals describe as “the cloudy sea” can be seen from a handful of resorts and viewpoints on Sapphagon Mountain in the northern Shan township of Nawnghkio.

A view from a monastery at Twin Taung, a crater lake near Monywa in Sagaing region. (Photos by Dominic Horner)

The little-known lake craters near Sagaing’s Monywa are absolutely gorgeous.

The Muse town border gate leading to China, where our writer’s dreams to become outrageously wealthy from thanaka sales were crushed within days. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

And other predictable lessons our writer learned in Ruili.

Typical scenery along the route from Ywangan back to Nyaung Shwe. (All photos by Marie Starr)

Two days of soaking up some of southern Shan state's most beautiful scenery. 

Enjoy palm toddy wine amid the realm of the toddy tappers near Bagan. (All photos by I Love Travelling / Facebook)

Platforms perched at the top of toddy palm trees are probably the best places to enjoy Myanmar's traditional tipple.

This photograph taken on January 18, 2020 shows tourists watching the sunset in Bagan. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)

While the tourism ministry says they are free to travel without restrictions, most bus companies are saying no to foreigners and some hotels are asking for extra documents.

A fisherman on Inle Lake in 1996 and boys on the lake in 2019. (Visit Myanmar and Ben Frederick respectively)

Local know-how, helping people travel further, deeper and better, is nothing new.

In Search of Myanmar: Travels Through a Changing Land by James Fable, illustrated by Chuu Wai Nyein.

UK writer James Fable visited some stunning places and gained some memorable experience over his two years in Myanmar. Now he has written about it.

The deserted beaches and turquoise waters of Tanintharyi Region are as far removed from the racket of the city as you can imagine.