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Myanmar Travel Tour

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- Myanmar is a great exotic tour destination.

What makes Myanmar or Burma different from other tour destinations is the unique high level cultural background, around 2000 km coastline with plenty of tropical beaches along the main coast and on around 1000 islands scattered in the Andaman Sea off the southern coast of Myanmar or Burma, plus great Myanmar Himalaya tours destinations.

Plenty of unique scenic Myanmar tour spots like Inle Lake, Mandalay, Bagan, Yangon, Mrauk U in Rhakine or Arakan and many other places. Myanmar is the right place for great tours and Myanmar tourism.

In Yangon or Rangoon and elsewhere in Myanmar plenty of tour agents offer their services, that means for your Myanmar vacation or holidays you could easily take a flight to Myanmar, go to a tour agent and put your Myanmar tour itinerary together, this way you could save a good amount of money in comparison when you take a vacation package tour out of your country. Since most Myanmar travel comes through Thailand here is some Thailand travel information. Now get your Myanmar flight to the "Golden Land" and touch down at Yangon Airport probably coming from Bangkok Airport.

Travel to Myanmar got another boost upwards in May 2010 when tourist visas started to be available on arrival for US$ 30,- . No need to apply at a Myanmar consulate for a visa anymore. There is only one little problem and that is when you arrive at Yangon Airport you need to have totally clean and undamaged dollar bills, if there is even the slightest problem such as something written at the dollar note or the paper is broken at the fold, which is rather natural they wont take it and they are very stubborn on this, they Myanmar State Bank refuses to take such bills.

 

Aside of this little things there are no problem anymore, don't believe anything what they tell in the media, this is almost all nonsense in relation to tour. Mainly because if a media people travel to Myanmar this is consider a work and for this they need a special visa, this procedure is the same in almost any country in the world, e.g. even if a German journalist wants to go to the USA he or she need a special visa since this considered work and not tourist, this visa is granted or not granted.

To blame the Myanmar's when they don't let some foreign media people into the country is a scream of pure hypocrisy because the USA for example also wont let a Myanmar or any other media people in unless they have a special visa for this travel purpose. In Myanmar you can tour anywhere, there are some off limit areas, this are always military areas which are closed for tourists, other Myanmar people, media people etc. like in any other country in the world, if you don't believe have a look how many huge areas in the USA are closed for public because they are for military use only.

- Several Myanmar tour variants are possible,

either you do a low budget bus tour, air tour, train tour or a Myanmar river cruise. Myanmar or Burma river cruise tours are available between Mandalay and Bagan and in the Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy delta, see the Irrawaddy Map.

River ships are operating from Mandalay into upper Myanmar, on the Salween or Thanlwin river at Moulmein or Mawlamyine. Some more interesting Myanmar river cruises can be made on the Chindwin river, a tributary to the Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy river and the Haledan river in Rhakine or Arakan.

River tours in Myanmar were much better and more easy during British colonial times, at that time the British Irrawaddy Flotilla Company served most of the Myanmar Rivers with a reliable schedule and good vessels. Today, about hundred years later all this is gone.

Some old river vessels move between Mandalay and upper Burma or Myanmar. You will find lots of Myanmar tour information within the website.

Travel Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy river double decker river ship
Tour Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy river double decker river ship
Road to Mandalay River Myanmar Cruise
Road to Mandalay River Myanmar Cruise
Sagaing Sunset over river opposite Mandalay
Sagaing Sunset over river opposite Mandalay
Mandalay River Vessel
Mandalay River Vessel

If you want to cruise Myanmar's mighty Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady River from Yangon to Mandalay it would be maybe 2 weeks, or maybe 2 month, or maybe you wont find a ship at all for this river cruise, nobody really know.

Myanmar air tours are preferable since it simply goes fast, e.g. a flight to Mandalay takes a little over one hour.

If you take the train to Mandalay, its about 12 hours, you take the ship, if you find one for this long distance it could take up to 2 month. As you can see, Myanmar or Burma is a real adventure tour destination.

If you don't go with a adventure tour operator the real adventure will come over you. It might sound romantic but after 2 days real adventure you will start screaming, trust me, I know it.

The best adventure tour agent in Myanmar is without any doubts Myanmar Explore. I know this because I know the owner of this company, a smart Japanese guy with a good feeling for quality and adventure. He wont offer

Myanmar air travel Yangon Airport Aircraft Docking
Myanmar air tour Yangon Airport Aircraft Docking

Myanmar air travel Yangon Airport Aircraft Parking
Myanmar air tour Yangon Airport Aircraft Parking

Myanmar air travel Yangon airport check in hall
Myanmar air tour Yangon airport check in hall

Myanmar air travel Yangon airport departure hal
Myanmar air tour Yangon airport departure
hall

something cheap, but he deliver and this is very rare in Myanmar, trust me !

On top of it his staff or rather crew of Myanmar guys and women are all recruited from the typical Myanmar adventure tour areas such as Chin, Naga, Kachin, Myanmar Himalaya area etc., from remote tribes, never everyone heard about and so on. Myanmar adventure is real adventure, not this flimsy commercialized adventure stuff they offer you in Thailand, India, Philippines and elsewhere.

I know this because among other real adventure stuff I lived in the Borneo jungle - Sarawak - in an Iban longhouse for several month, went spear fishing in the the Rajang River and learned how to hit the monkey in the tree with the poison blow pipe dart. Have a look for the real adventure in Myanmar or Burma.

- On a Myanmar trip check with the travel agent if there is a Myanmar Festival around somewhere. Festivals are the best events to see the people and their habits. Even if it is only a small pagoda festival which are the most common. The bigger festivities are Tagu, Nayon, Kason, Waso, Tawthalin, Wagaung , Thadingyut, Pyatho, Tazaungmon, Nadaw , Thabodwe, Tabaung and the Myanmar Waterfestival or Thingyan.

- There are many hotels in Myanmar, suitable for almost every size of wallet and every Burma or Myanmar vacation trip.

The best hotels in Myanmar are in Yangon, Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake since this are also the primary destinations for tourism in Myanmar.

In Yangon and the other above mentioned towns are also cheaper hotels with less comfort.

Outside this towns hotels are sometimes very basic, a alternative on your Myanmar tour would be to ask if you can stay overnight in a monastery if there is no other suitable place around.

Monasteries are almost everywhere in Myanmar and usually the monks are happy when they can help you, consider a reasonable donation.

Kandawgyi Palace Hotel Yangon Myanmar
Kandawgyi Palace Hotel Yangon Myanmar
Golden Cottage Resort Inle Lake
Golden Cottage Resort Inle Lake
Max Beach Resort Chaung Tha Myanmar
Max Beach Resort Chaung Tha Myanmar
Sedona Hotel Yangon
Sedona Hotel Yangon
Tharabar Gate Hotel Bagan Myanmar
Tharabar Gate Hotel Bagan Myanmar
Bayview Beach Resort Ngapali Beach Myanma
Bayview Beach Resort Ngapali Beach Myanmar

When you tour Myanmar never use tap water for any purpose beside of washing, don't even use it to brush your tooth or for shaving, always use bottled water originally sealed when you buy it in the shop or hotel, every better hotel will supply some

bottled water complimentary.

Myanmar is a great destination for culture tours, history tours, beach tours and climbing or hiking in particular in the Myanmar Himalayas for adventure tour, have a look at the map of Myanmar or Burma. The climate, location and environment makes

Bagan Temple Panorama
Bagan Temple Panorama
Bagan Ananda Temple
Bagan Ananda Temple

Myanmar or Burma one of the most interesting and beautiful countries to tour for vacation or holidays. Myanmar or Burma lies on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, just north of the Malay Peninsula.

Myanmar at Kawthaung north of the Malay Peninsula
Myanmar at Kawthaung north of the
Malay Peninsula

Thailand and China are on the east side and the Indian provinces of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland on the other, just the right destination for a real exotic Asian vacation trip.

Sittwe Myanmar Ship in the Bay of Bengal
Sittwe Myanmar Ship in the Bay of Bengal
Sittwe Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal
Sittwe Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal
Myanmar Naga similar to Indian Naga in Nagaland
Myanmar Naga similar to Indian Naga in Nagaland

 

Myanmar Naga warrior similar to Indian Naga in Nagaland
Myanmar Naga warrior similar to Indian Naga in Nagaland

 

Myanmar Naga Head Gear an Tattoo
Myanmar Naga Head Gear
an Tattoo
Myanmar Naga with Buffalo Head Gear
Myanmar Naga with
Buffalo Head Gear
- Coming from somewhere in the Tibet Himalayas

the Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady river flows throughout the entire length of Myanmar , all the way down to Yangon or Rangoon emptying the flood of brown water into the Andaman Sea through the Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy delta.

Other large Myanmar rivers, such as the Sittang and Salween or Thanlwin , flowing through deep valleys on the border to Thailand. Would be the ideal places for great Myanmar rafting adventure vacations but there is no infrastructure to go there.

On the northwest, mountain ranges form a barrier between Myanmar or Burma and the frontier provinces of India. Most of the mountains in the border regions are still densely covered with forest and jungle, wide rivers in between,

River in deep valleys trekking Himalaya Myanmar Burma
River in deep valleys trekking Himalaya Myanmar Burma
Mountain trekking Himalaya Hkakabo Razi Myanmar Burma
Mountain trekking Himalaya Hkakabo Razi Myanmar Burma
With the jeep through the river Himalaya Myanmar Burma
With the jeep through the river Himalaya Myanmar Burma
In snow mountain trekking Himalaya Myanmar Burma
In snow mountain trekking Himalaya Myanmar Burma

the best places for great Myanmar adventure trekking vacation, in many cases the rivers are un-navigable. All this makes Myanmar or Burma a great outdoor tour spot, the problem is, it's very difficult to come to this places because there is no infrastructure to go

there, not even dirt roads. Only on one little corner in the north-east, where Myanmar or Burma borders the Chinese province of Yunnan, is access from the land side easy, and there are caravans of Yunnanese constantly enter the country -not for tourist tour purpose- but to trade at Bhamo and Hsipaw.

Since a few years up to about 2 million people from China entered Myanmar to start a new life in Mandalay and elsewhere, they simply run away from this overpopulation pressure and the continuous nature disaster in China because of that.

Myanmar or Burma has for centuries remained untouched and unspoiled, it is only since the British took over the country  a gradual extension of the railway system and the river transport system was slowly opening up Myanmar's interior, so ? happy Myanmar tour.

Myanmar Mandalay Maha Muni Pagoda Fish & Turtle Pond
Myanmar Mandalay Maha Muni Pagoda Fish & Turtle Pond at Mandalay art
Kuthodaw Pagoda trip at Mandalay hil
Kuthodaw Pagoda trip at Mandalay hill
Mandalay Hill Trip Myanmar
Mandalay Hill Trip Myanmar
- Another great tour destination in Myanmar -just right for island tour adventure- are the Myanmar Islands

of the Andaman Sea, mainly in the legendary  Mergui Archipelago, where already the Portuguese

adventurer roamed in  the 17.th. century and British colonial navy and troops later.

The Myanmar Andaman sea is the right destination for adventure tours, a almost virgin part of the Indian Ocean bordering India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and partly Thailand with almost no contact to any foreigners except on the Thai part. The last times foreigners were seen in the Myanmar Andaman Sea was during British


Adventure Tour Andaman Sea Beach Life
Adventure Travel Andaman Sea Harpooning Fish
Adventure Tour Andaman Sea Harpoon
Fishing

colonial time, now slowly some "live aboard" diving tours are offered out of Thailand .

There are not many places on earth so untouched and this wont last very long have a look into our unique e-books ......on the Andaman Sea......

Just the right stuff for your adventure tours into a area almost no one has been there.

Adventure Travel Andaman Sea Salone or Moken Houseboat
Adventure Tour Andaman Sea Salon or Moken Houseboat
Adventure Travel Andaman Sea Canoeing
Adventure Tour Andaman Sea Canoeing

- Sea Gypsies

The Sea Gypsies of southern Myanmar and off the west coast of Thailand all the way down to the Thai - Malaysian border are the Salon or Moken. They never live permanently, touring around the sea and live temporarily on the islands where greener

landscape exists. After the rainy season, they wander about the sea during winter and summer seasons, collecting marine products.


Being at sea from birth to death, they are very skillful at sea. Some historians call them "Sea - Gypsies" because of having no fixed abodes. They can dive down to the depth of 80 feet under the water without diving gear.

Sea  Gypsies or Salone in the Mergui Archipelago Myanmar Burma
Sea Gypsies or Salon in the Mergui Archipelago Myanmar Burma
Islands of the Andaman sea
Islands of the Andaman sea
 
Myanmar car ride yellow jeep
Myanmar car ride yellow jeep
Myanmar bus and truck ride
Myanmar bus and truck ride
A Myanmar car ride from Yangon to Mandalay takes maybe 10 hours, the same Myanmar tour on the train takes around 12 hours.


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