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“Please don’t walk around after dark,” Mohan, the village chief, tells us as he shows us around in the late afternoon sun. “We had an elephant come through last night.”

A cool afternoon breeze ripples through the swaying palm trees overhead, blowing north out to sea where calm waters gently lap against the rocky foreshore. A group of laughing children…

If you travel to Myanmar, deep into the country’s arid, central Magway region, along the sacred Irrawaddy River, you’ll come to the tiny township of Myaing, where something very special is brewing.

Read all about Myanmar’s very first community-based tourism project in Myaing, newly opened to visitors last year with support from Intrepid Travel.