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 ...

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 ...

In its heyday in the 1920s, the fabled Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. transported millions of passengers each year along the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar (formerly Burma) with a fleet of more than 600 vessels.

KYA HNYAT, Myanmar -- To the residents of Kya Hnyat, a village of thatched-roof huts more than 700 miles up Myanmar's Irrawaddy River, the arrival of the Avalon Myanmar must seem like the coming of an ...

“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 ...

In 2015, Avalon Waterways is introducing two new 36-guest Suite Ships on the Mekong and the river cruise line’s newest destination, the Irrawaddy River. Both new all-suite ships – the Avalon Siem Reap ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fishermen in the Irrawaddy River have been fishing cooperatively with dolphins for generations. Photo: Alex Diment. Drifting down the moonlit ...

After decades of decline, this dolphin population is bouncing back. River dolphins in the Mekong river near Kratie province in the northeastern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The number of critically ...

Indonesia’s fisheries ministry is working with a conservation NGO to draw up plans prohibiting fishing gear considered dangerous to critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mahakam River in ...

Three endangered freshwater dolphins have died within 10 days of each other, alarming conservationists in Cambodia. The death of a third healthy dolphin in such a brief period indicates "an ...