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Going around Bagan

Bamarlay — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:13:00 +0000

If you are travelling in a tour group, your tour operator will handle all travelling arrangement for you. However, if you are travelling on your own, you will have to take care of your own travelling arrangement in Bagan. But travelling around Bagan is not difficult. Travelling in Bagan is easy for both tourists with a very limited budget to rich tourists. Cheapest – Bicycle My favorite way of travelling in Bagan. I always travel in a bicycle, at least a day, whenever I visit to Bagan (another day is reserved for horse cart travel). Not only it is cheap, you also have freedom to go wherever you want to go. Bagan is such a small place that you can reach most of the temples and pagodas by bicycle. Almost all hotels and guest houses have bicycles, and you can hire bicycles cheaply from many hiring shops in Bagan. It will cost around 1,000 kyat to as high as 3,000 – 4,000 kyat a day, depending on season. Avoid taking bicycle during summer as it is unbearably hot during summer. Also, bring enough oral rehydration salt packets (ORS) as you will lose a lot of swet, water and salt [...]

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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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Maymyo – How to go

Bamarlay — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:05:22 +0000

Bus There are bus services between Mandalay and Maymyo (Pyinoolwin), as well as between Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) and Lashio. The buses are modified pickup trucks which carry passengers in the back as well as above the roof. The buses are slow, carry a lot of passengers and cargo, and sometimes drive quite recklessly. You can get a bus to Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) at the Highway Bus Station in Mandalay. Taxi A better way to go to Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) from Mandalay is to take a taxi. You can hire the whole taxi or share with other people. Usually, the private taxis run between Mandalay and Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) as a regular service. Sharing a taxi with other 3 passengers will cost around US$ 7 per person. Prices change frequently depending on the fluctuation in gas prices. You can also hire the whole taxi to go to Maymyo (Pyinoolwin) at about US$ 25 per taxi. If you want to hire a taxi to Maymyo (Pyinoolwin), either sharing or whole taxi, just ask the hotel/guesthouse you are staying. The taxi will come and pick up the passengers at the hotel. Alternatively, go to Unity Hotel in Maymyo (Pyinoolwin). There is a roadside taxi stand near the [...]

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Mandalay Travel Guide – Getting around

Bamarlay — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:20:15 +0000

Mandalay is a big city. It is the second largest city in Myanmar with nearly one million populations (there is no reliable government data on the exact population). However, the public transport in Mandalay is very poor compared to other cities of the same size in other Asian countries. Even though public transport system in Yangon is a very poor one, it has at least a functioning public transport system. Mandalay does not have. All it has is a few slow buses that travel at a snail’s pace, almost always over crowded, reaches only a few places in Mandalay, and comes one every half an hour or so. Mandalay is essentially a city of bicycles and motorcycles. Every part of the city is easily reachable by bicycle (except for the new extension of Mandalay). The roads are full of motorcycles and bicycles, with a few cars here and there. Only a few junctions have red lights which rarely work. Taxis are difficult to find (except in a few taxi stands and tourist destinations). There are very few options for foreign tourists to get around Mandalay. The most convenient way to travel around Mandalay is by taxi. There are only very [...]

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Mandalay Travel Guide – getting there

Bamarlay — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:16:13 +0000

Mandalay can be reached by Air, bus, train or by boat. The most comfortable and convenient way to travel to Mandalay is to travel by air. The three private airlines in Myanmar, Air Mandalay, Air Bagan and Yangon Airway, run several flights a day to Mandalay from Yangon. Most of these flights run the route Yangon-Bagan-Mandalay-Heho-Yangon or in the opposite direction, so it is convenient to plan your trip through these popular tourist destinations. Tickets can be difficult to secure during the tourist season so it is wise to book the tickets in advanced. (See Domestic Airlines for advice). However, there is some drawback for budget travelers to use plane to travel to Mandalay. The air ticket price is quite expensive compared to similar trips in other countries. The Mandalay International Airport is also quite far away – actually very far away from town. It takes more time to reach the airport from town by car than to reach by air from Yangon! Nobody knows why they built the airport at such a far away place. The airfare between Yangon and Mandalay is around 80 to 100 US$ depending on the season. All foreigners must pay ticket price in US [...]

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Yangon (Rangoon) International Airport

Bamarlay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:40:22 +0000

I still remember the first time I brought my girlfriend to Burma. As soon as she saw the Rangoon International Airport, she suddenly exclaimed “Oh, it is a temple in the airport”. It makes the Burmese passengers sitting in front of our seat into uncontrollable laughter. Well, she was partly right. The Yangoon International Airport is a strange airport building. Its design and structure is the result of repeated, poorly planned renovations and constructions, mixed with poor maintenance. Built in 1947, shortly before the independence of Burma, by Calcutta Metropolitan Airports Authority, it was considered the best airport in South East Asia. However, with poor maintenance, neglect and poor planning, the airport together with the airport building became dilapidated and antiquated. Effort for Modernization In 2003, Myanmar Government launced a project to modernize the airport and the airport building as well as to extend the runway. The new extension and modernization pland was designed by the Airport Development Division of CPG Corporation of Singapore and constructed by Asia World Company of Myanmar, the runway was extended to a new 11,200 feet length. A new international terminal was also added to handle 900 departing passengers and 900 arrivals simultaneously. Overall design and detailing was [...]

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Road Transport in Myanmar (Burma) – Highway

Bamarlay — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:09:45 +0000

Introduction Like most other countries in the world, road transportation is the most important communication in Myanmar. Most towns and cities are accessible only by land route. Only a few towns and cities are connected by railway lines. Even if they are connected by rail link, the condition of train services in Myanmar make it too difficult for most ordinary people to use railway as the major means of travel in Myanmar. Some towns are also reachable by rivers but river travel is very slow compared to road transportation, so it is not always practical. Thus, most people has to rely on road transportation to travel in Myanmar. Talking about roads in Myanmar (Burma) to outsiders is not always an easy task. Most foreigners live in rich countries where roads are in very good condition, and all the towns and villages are connected by full weathered roads in very good condition. Traveling a few hundreds kilometers takes only few hours of comfortable journey for those foreigners. Restaurants, food, toilets, convenient store are easily found on the way. Explaining something that does not exist in their country to the foreigners is a difficult task, until the time they actually come and [...]

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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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