I heard Tony speaking to the Commonwealth Club (on a podcast) recently, and he mentioned wanting to go to Burma.

I've been married to a Burmese woman for three years now, and I went to Burma for the first time last year. Wow. I've been around a bit, and Burma takes the cake for "most different place".

In the village where my wife is from, I was the first white guy in 25 years. I know this because they remember the LAST white guy. No TV, no electricity, and little wealth among most people - and also little poverty, outside the cities.

And the food... is very different. Not at all like either Indian or Thai food, unlike people sometimes think. While I was there, my wife came back to the house, carrying what I can only describe as something that looked like a birch branch. Pluck all the leaves, boil the leaves, and you have lunch - which tastes like boiled birch leaves.

Wonderful people, very friendly (though not so friendly gov't), many fabulous sights, and a wide diversity of things to see in the country itself (it's really 7 or 8 countries stuck together through history).