Whether your preference is to call it Burma or Myanmar, the fact is that today’s Myanmar is an infinitely preferable place to the Burma depicted by George Orwell in “Burmese Days” and others who have written about the country.

All the same, here are 30 pictures that will make you want to visit Myanmar.

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