I have long believed that the best moments in travel are those that are unscripted, the chance encounters or sudden disruptions that send you on an unexpected course and allow for the most memorable discoveries. On our recent trip to Burma, or Myanmar, that is exactly what occurred. Myanmar has the lure of the forbidden: the country was cut off and off limits for decades. The generals running Myanmar didn’t want foreign influences coming in or reports of their human rights abuses getting out. An...