Island  to  visit  near  Ngwe  Saung

May of the islands that doe the coast around Ngwe Saung – a five-hour bus ride from Yangon – have adopted newfangled names in the years since Myanmar began promoting tourism in the mid-1990s. Just an hour by boat from lover’s Island, located on the southernmost tip of the tourist map, the islands formerly known as “North Island” and “South Island” have been transformed into the catchier Bird Islands, respectively. And, just as there are not any romancers populating Lover’s Island, Bird Island is replete with all sorts of aquatic life, none of which can fly.