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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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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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Mandalay – Myitkyina Train Trip – 4

Thet Naing — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:04:32 +0000

On the way at one station near Shwebo, one man climbed up through the window beside my friend. My friend pushed him back, telling not to climb. He kept on climbing, pushing my friend back. Once he was inside the carriage, he scolded at my friend yelling he could be arrested for breaking the law. I looked at him and found he was wearing the uniform of the State Railway Department. I was very angry by then. I yelled him back, telling how he could talk about laws and rules when he himself broke the rules by climbing through the window. He was very angry but climbed out of the same window through which he climbed in a few minute ago. Other passengers just stared at us in amazement. When we reached Khin-oo, other passengers nearby told us to close the windows. Otherwise, they said, the farm girls will come and sit on our lap. We didn’t believe what they said. However, once we arrived at the station, we saw hundreds of people running after the train. We had to close the windows frantically before these people reached the train. From below, they yelled at us to open the windows, [...]

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Mandalay – Myitkyina Train Trip – 3

Thet Naing — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:38:25 +0000

For you Grandpa, you always traveled by plane, or by luxury cars, so you would not know about these. That is why I was thinking of you all the time. You have never experienced such kind of things, so you would not know what we, your grandchildren, had to experience. You have a very fortunate life. Grandpa is so rich that you don’t need to experience these things. Even if you ever had to encounter such a condition, other people would make sure you never see these things. I think, if you were me in this place, you would be swearing at these bugs. If other people came and sit in your seat, you would push them out yelling “this is my seat”. Well, if you don’t know any of these and always thinking all the people are as problem-free as you, I have nothing more to say. If you ask me if these were all my problems, I would have to shake my head again and again. Do you believe Grandpa that the train from Mandalay to Myitkyina took 30 hours? Yes, it took more than a day. The train left Mandalay at 5 PM and arrived to Myitkyina [...]

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Mandalay – Myitkyina Train Trip – 2

Thet Naing — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:30:59 +0000

The ticket that the station manager said “Gone” is still available from the black market! Isn’t it surprising? However, you had to pay two times the actual price. I was really angry. Well, what could I do? Too bad for us, as we, grandchildren of Grandpa, got only ordinary class tickets. I used to travel this train trip in the past, and I knew how bad the ordinary class was. However, what could we do? If there were any cancellation of ticket from one of the VIPs, we might be able to get one or two tickets. I don’t understand what VIP really means. (Translator’s note: here the author was sarcastic about the term VIP or Very Important Person). In the countries where I had been, there was no such thing like this. Other members from my group offered to buy an upper class ticket for me, but I declined. We were traveling in the same group and I didn’t want to be the only one who was traveling in style. If we had to suffer, we suffer together. That is my motto. So finally, we left Mandalay on a second expressed train bound for Myitkyina, at 5 PM in [...]

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Mandalay – Myitkyina Train Trip

Thet Naing — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:17:07 +0000

Translated from Burmese. Original article posted on Nyi Lynn Seck’s Blog. Wish Grandpa to take a train trip Grandpa, This month, I traveled for more than 5,000 miles total. When I was young, I used to be very happy whenever I traveled long trips like this. However, more recently, whenever I traveled, it makes me very tired. The last trip was from Myitkyina. (Translator’s note: Myitkyina is the capital of Kachin State, which is situated in the north of Myanmar). From Yangon to Mandalay, and from Mandalay to Myitkyina. What a long trip. What a long time it took. Would you believe that I was thinking about you, Grandpa, all the time while I was in the extremely dirty train, full of passengers and full of bugs? Let me tell you from the very beginning. We started our trip at Mandalay Railway Station. Our group was altogether eleven. We tried to buy train tickets to Myitkyina, but all we got was the same usual answer – “No ticket”. Our group is actually survey group for a UNDP project in Kachin State. We have all the necessary documents and permits. We have been trying to get the train tickets since we [...]

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To all the visitors who would travel by train to Bagan (Pagan)

Thet Naing — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:57:10 +0000

The following is the translation from the Myanmar Popular Journal – a leading weekly journal from Myanmar (Burma). The original article is written in Burmese, in journal vol. 13/No. 1. It has some interesting facts about train travel in Myanmar which would be of interest to some of my visitors. To all the visitors who would travel by train to Bagan (Pagan) It has been quite a long time since I visited Bagan the last time. While I was visiting Mandalay this time, I think I should visit Bagan. Bagan is quite pleasant during this time of the year, with green grass, blue sky, beautiful clouds, colorful twilight and the reflection from Irrawaddy (Ayarwaddy or Ayeyarwaddy). In my mind, I was thinking of the old scenes of Tuyin Mountain from the green fields in the beautiful sunset, endless series of pagoda festivals one after another, hundreds of bullock carts of visitors from villages all around Bagan, and the green trees and grasses of Bagan during the cool season. This time, I was thinking of the way to go to bagan. I have already traveled to Bagan by plane. I have already used Highway buses to travel to Bagan. But I [...]

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