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Get married to a Myanmar man or lady

Bamarlay — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:10:02 +0000

The following is the article from Myanmar Man’s Diary blog with permission. The article give advice on get married to a Myanmar man or lady. It is quite difficult, due to restrictions in Myanmar law, but entirely possible. Many of our visitors asked us information on getting married to a Burmese. Apparently, they find it difficult to find information on getting married to a Burmese. There are no information available on marriage to a Burmese (guy or girl). I think it is time to give you some information on this issue for those Burmese guys and girls who found difficulty getting married to a foreigner, and those foreign men and ladies want to get married to a Burmese. Burmese law allows Myanmar citizens to get married to a foreigner. In the past, it used to be easy to get it done. Just head to a local judge and he will marry you. However, since about 10 years ago, local judges refused to do it on the ground that it is difficult to distinguish between real marriage and the human trafficking. Today, no judge or local court would marry a Burmese and a foreigner. Even after you get married, your marriage certificate (actually [...]

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Bagan – Getting there

Thet Naing — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:03:38 +0000

Bagan is the most visited place in Myanmar by foreigners, apart from Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. Almost all travel itineries include Bagan. Going to Bagan is easy, either Bus, boat, train or air. By Air Perhaps the easiest and most convenient way to travel to Bagan is by Air. All local airlines have daily flights to Bagan. Some airlilnes run more than one flight a day. These flights usually follow the rout Yangon-Bagan-Mandalay-Hehe-Yangon (or in the opposite direction). Thus it is convenient to plan your trip along these destinations. Air far is usually around US$ 80 – 100, one way, depending on season. For details on airlines, please see the article Domestic Air Travel Advice. From Bagan (Nyaung Oo) Airport, you can take a taxi to Nyaung Oo town or Bagan. One point to remind you is, if you include Mandalay in your trip schedule, Mandalay Airport is outside the town and about one hour drive from the city. And taxi to and from Mandalay Airport is quite expensive. By Bus If you are on budget, then the best way to travel to Bagan is by bus. From Yangon, all buses leave at around 3 PM, and arrive to Bagan [...]

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Myanmar Today new site design launched

Bamarlay — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:18:17 +0000

Myanmar Today has just launched our new site design yesterday. Although the old site design serve our purpose as bloggin tool, it serves our site’s purpose as an information website. We have extensively redesigned our site with a new wordpress template. The following are some important changes to our site. Improved color scheme Improved menu bar with pull down menus Improved Category menu bar New: individual pages for places and destinations of Myanmar New: Magazine style home page with Latest post at the top and previous posts in 2 and 3 column layout. Improved search box Improved popular articles in sidebar Improved featured articles in sidebar Easy navigation bar at the foot In addition, we will be publishing new articles on Myanmar as well as updating our old articles to be up to date. In following weeks, we will be publishing our Ultimate Bagan travel guide. Myanmar Today new site design launched is an article from Myanmar Today, a site about Myanmar news, culture, custom, information and travel advice. If you like our articles, why don't you link to us in your website? It is simple. Just copy and paste the following code somewhere into your webpage. We really appreciate [...]

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Night Life in Yangon

Bamarlay — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:58:50 +0000

Night life in Yangon, for a foreigner, is quite dry and boring. Even for us who are long time residents of Yangon feel night life in Yangon is becoming more and more boring. There are very few bars and night clubs. Very few restaurants and tea shops open until midnight, due to government restrictions (in the past, many tea shops and restaurants open the whole night, especially in the China Town). Anyway, for those who have money, people still can enjoy a bit of night life, although one will feel it quite boring compared to that in neighbouring Thailand. Original image by Onourownpath.com at Flickr. For Simple Night For those who just want to spend their night in a simple way, just head to China town. Even though not officially allowed to open beyond midnight, you can still find bustling night bazaar and roadside food stalls in China town. You can have nice and delicious Chinese food at a cheap price there and observe the local way of life in Chian town. China town in situated in downtown Yangon. Ask taxi driver to bring you to Latha Road, get off there and walk in the streets full of stalls and [...]

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Updated: Inle Travel Guide

Bamarlay — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:00:11 +0000

Photo by AntwerpenR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwp-roger/ / CC BY 2.0. Used with permission. Inle Travel Guide has been updated. The following posts have been updated with up to date information as of September 2010. Budget hotels, guest houses and cheap accommodations in Inle and Nyaungshwe area Inle Nyaungshwe mid-range hotels Inle region high end luxury hotels and resorts Places to visit in and around Inle Lake We will also be updating other travel informations on Myanmar Today with up to date information in coming week. Thanks from Myanmar Today Team Updated: Inle Travel Guide is an article from Myanmar Today, a site about Myanmar news, culture, custom, information and travel advice. If you like our articles, why don't you link to us in your website? It is simple. Just copy and paste the following code somewhere into your webpage. We really appreciate your link to us. <a href="http://www.myanmar2day.com/">Myanmar Today</a> Related Posts Inle and Shan State Inle Nyaungshwe mid-range hotels Inle – How to go

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Finding a house maid in Yangon

Thet Naing — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:18 +0000

For foreigners to Myanmar, hiring a house maid is an important thing to do in Myanmar. Not only the house maid should be a skilled one, she should also be reliable and honest. Hiring a house maid in Myanmar is not as straight forward as you migh think, as there are no formal agencies to handle such kind of things. However, there are some informations available for you that would aid you in finding a good house maid in Myanmar. The following suggestion and information assume that you are living in Yangon (Rangoon) and trying to find a house maid in Yangon. General Information First of all it’s difficult to find a house maid and more difficult to find a good one. However, for foreigners, since they can pay more (than locals) they tends to get qualify maids. Ethnic maids are among the highest scored because of their personality (fair skin, decent looking), sincerity, loyalty and cleverness. It is better to keep several single tasking maids; one for cook, one for cleaning and one for babysitting. But if your family size is small, let’s say maximum 3, you can keep a multi tasking maid who do both cooking and cleaning but [...]

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Inle – How to go

Bamarlay — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:53:41 +0000

Inle can be reached by a number of ways from either Yangon (Rangoon) or Mandalay. You can get to Inle by air flight, by train or by bus. As Nyaungshwe is the usual dwelling place for most foreign tourists going to Inle, we will describe how to go to Nyaungshwe from other parts of Myanmar (Burma). By Air All domestic airlines in Myanmar, namely Air Mandalay, Yangon Airway and Air Bagan, operate daily flights to Heho, a nearby town in Shan State. In peak seasons, there is usually more than one flight a day to Inle from each domestic airline. Usually, during peak tourist season, there are two flights a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The routes are usually Yangon-Heho-Mandalay-Bagan or the reverse order. This makes it easy and convenient to plan a route along these destinations. Air travel is the most convenient way of travel in Myanmar, as the condition of most highways in Myanmar are in poor condition, and most highways buses are also old and in poor maintainance. It also saves a lot of time. However, please bear in mind that ticket prices for airlines in Myanmar are quite expensive. Yangon-Heho air [...]

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Visitor Survey

Bamarlay — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:33:25 +0000

We at Myanmar Today are always striving to fulfil the requirements of our visitors. We are always trying to answer questions that our visitors are asking for or want to know. Our Myanmar Today team would like to do a short visitor survey to know more about our visitors. The survey result will be of great help in improving the quality of our website as well as to answer specific questions and information that our visitors are looking for. We hope our valued visitors would give us a few minutes of their valuable time for us and help improve our website. Thank you. Myanmar Today Team Loading… Visitor Survey is an article from Myanmar Today, a site about Myanmar news, culture, custom, information and travel advice. If you like our articles, why don't you link to us in your website? It is simple. Just copy and paste the following code somewhere into your webpage. We really appreciate your link to us. <a href="http://www.myanmar2day.com/">Myanmar Today</a> Related Posts Visitor Survey Improvement to Myanmar Today Update on foreign currency exchange rate

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Supermarkets in Yangon

Bamarlay — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:16:20 +0000

If you are coming from neighboring countries of Myanmar, like Thailand, you would be really disappointed with the available supermarkets in Yangon (Rangoon). There are very few supermarkets in Yangon, compared to other Asian capitals. Moreover, most of these supermarkets in Myanmar quite small, and the available items are also very much limited. The largest supermarket chain in Yangon and in Myanmar is the City Mart Supermarkets. It has more than ten centers in Yangon, including the larger Ocean Supermarkets. Apart from Yangon, there is only one City Mart Supermarket in Mandalay, and another newly opened one in Pyinmanar (Naypyidaw, the new capital of Myanmar). You would be able to find a fairly good collection of imported and local products – food, drinks, dairy products, toiletries, cosmetics, liquor and wine in these supermarkets. Indeed, the range of items available at City Mart Supermarket is much more than at any other supermarket in Myanmar. The staffs at City Mart are also friendly and helpful. Open together with almost all City Mart Supermarkets is the Season’s Bakery which sells tasty bread and bakery at an affordable price. In addition, City Mart has the largest collection of wine and liquor in Myanmar. Apart [...]

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Opinion on visiting Burma

Bamarlay — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:29:28 +0000

We at Myanmar Today run a small poll a few months ago to our visitors asking about their idea of travelling or visiting to Myanmar (Burma). Under all those bad news coverage about Myanmar, and call for travel ban to Myanmar, we would like to know the idea of our visitors about this issue. Therefore, we run a small poll whether they have ever visited Myanmar in the past and whther they plan to visit Myanmar. The poll was conducted over two months period. A total of 132 visitors cast their vote. We would like to say thank you to all those who have voted in our poll. The following is the result of our poll. 42 percent of the voters said they have already visited at least once to Myanmar. 31 percent of the voters said they plan to visit Myanmar in a near future while another 14 percent visited showed interest in visiting Myanmar but don’t have any immediate plan to do so. 11 percent showed no interest in visiting Myanmar while a minority 2 percent have visited Myanmar in the past but don’t have any intention to visit the country again. This poll sheds light into the [...]

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