The "Road To Mandalay" cruises the Ayeyarwady River which flows over 2,000 km from the Kachin Hills in the North to the Andaman Sea.  Stretching for over 1,930 km from the North Himalayan region to the South tip of the Tenasserim region, which faces the Andaman Sea, Myanmar (Burma) borders India and Bangladesh to the North West and West, China and Laos to the North East and Thailand to the East and South East.