Sara Hui

Writer's Biography

Sara Hui is a hotelier by profession and a writer at heart. She had her first book "When She Was Eighteen" published when she was, well, eighteen years old. She was educated in Hong Kong, Switzerland and eventually graduated with a degree in hotel management from Cornell University. Since then, Sara has worked and lived in San Francisco, Dubai, Bali, Jakarta, Southern California and currently is moving from the Maldives to Hawaii. Her nomadic lifestyle took her to many countries and she is always looking forward to the next destination.

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Mandalay, Myanmar: Mandalay’s Hopes and Sorrows - Story by Sara Hui
- 9th Online Issue

I took a peek through the morning clouds down at Mandalay as we were about to land.  This city, the second largest in Myanmar and made famous by Kipling’s poem of the same name, looked disappointingly barren and abandoned from the air.   We’d caught a pre-dawn flight by Air Mandalay, taking 90 minutes from the capital of Yangon.   Upon entering the surprisingly modern airport, our passports were thoroughly checked, something unusual for a domestic flight, and our details were cross-examined from a report.  It seemed to us that once you are in Myanmar as a foreigner, your every move is monitored at all times. 

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