"The hinterlands of Burma have mostly been inaccessible to foreigners since World War II. All travel in Burma was confined to a regular circuit in the central area. While interesting, this central area did not contain most of Burma's best birding sites. As a result, our knowledge of the birds of Burma is quite poor. However, in the last few years, Burma has begun to open up its more remote areas to tourism. In 1995, we had a superb reconnaissance trip to the areas covered by this tour, which we followed up with a tour in 2000. We'll be following the 2000 tour route with some modifications and adding a couple of sites for what will be a superb birding adventure.

Political Background : Before the British Colonisation, the ZO race remained undistrubed and enjoy her Fundamental freemdom and no foreigner dominated the ZO country and the ZO inhabitants therein. But after the British Coloniser ruled over India for a hundred years and Burma for fifty years; they also started invading the ZO country from different corners and atlast, the Britsh also subjugated the ZO people and devided the country with the people living therein into three different segments. Eastern ZO country was kept under Burmese Administration, Western ZO country under Bengal and central and northern parts under Assam, in 1890.