I went to Myanmar a year and a half ago. Easily the most valuable thing I brought with me was my iPhone, loaded up with iTravel, a free app that downloads entire countries worth of Wikivoyage entries for offline viewing (Although I spent most of my downtime reading Orwell's Burmese Days).
If you're trying to make a point about the uselessness of paper travel guides in the modern world, you couldn't pick a better destination than Myanmar. Since the opening of the borders to foreigners in 2012, the economy and the state of technology has been advancing at a rapid clip.
Even WikiVoyage had a hard time keeping up. There was copy in the Myanmar article stating that WiFi was not available anywhere, and that the only way of getting on to the internet was through government sanctioned/monitored internet cafes. When I arrived (10/2013) there was free WiFi in almost every hotel I stayed at.
My general advice for anyone going to Myanmar is to spend a couple days getting blown away by Pagan and then do some hiking and shopping around Inle Lake. But if you want to know how to get around and where to stay, I feel like I'd be of little use. The best (or at least most advisable) bus routes and hotels currently running probably opened in the time since I left.
I had never seen Wikivoyage before, but I have used Wikitravel. The two sites seem to contain very similar information. Are they related? Which one is usually more up to date?
Wikitravel is sponsored by ads, Wikivoyage is funded by Wikimedia. Wikivoyage is basically a fork of Wikitravel that happened a couple years ago when contributors to Wikitravel started getting concerned about the company that was running it. Since a lot of the contributors (if not consumers) of Wikitravel made the move, I generally trust Wikivoyage to be more up to date.
If you're trying to make a point about the uselessness of paper travel guides in the modern world, you couldn't pick a better destination than Myanmar. Since the opening of the borders to foreigners in 2012, the economy and the state of technology has been advancing at a rapid clip.
Even WikiVoyage had a hard time keeping up. There was copy in the Myanmar article stating that WiFi was not available anywhere, and that the only way of getting on to the internet was through government sanctioned/monitored internet cafes. When I arrived (10/2013) there was free WiFi in almost every hotel I stayed at.
My general advice for anyone going to Myanmar is to spend a couple days getting blown away by Pagan and then do some hiking and shopping around Inle Lake. But if you want to know how to get around and where to stay, I feel like I'd be of little use. The best (or at least most advisable) bus routes and hotels currently running probably opened in the time since I left.