Junta hopes of promoting Chaungtha Beach in Ayeyarwady Region to Russian tourists have proved short-lived as hotels close and locals flee from the advancing Arakan Army (AA).
Chaungtha used to bustle with vacationers from Yangon on holidays and weekends but now lies deserted after fighting between the regime and the AA in neighboring Rakhine spilled over to Ayeyarwady, locals say.
Fighting has come as close as Bawmi village some 48 km away in Pathein District, and all hotel bookings on the beach were canceled.
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