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 Traveller's Tales: Getting around in Myanmar
Know the most popular landmarks in Myanmar. You may read about best transportation, recommended travel itinerary, suggested routes and directions. Also, you might want to read our
Bagan city guide,
Inle Lake city guide,
Mandalay city guide,
and Yangon(Rangoon) city guide.
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| D Thormann |
22 December 2002 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Horse carts: reasonable prises and amazing view esp. during the night at full moon. Boat trips can be easilily organized.
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| J Mcadoo |
13 December 2002 |
Stayed at Summit Parkview Hotel - Yangon, Myanmar.
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I wouldn't recommend much more than a day in Yangon. it's a typical hot dusty Asian city, and there isn't much to see. Get out and see the real Burma - Bagan, Inle Lake. When you want a taxi, get the hotel staff outside the entrance to organise it for you - they will tell the driver where you want to go. It should not cost more than a dollar, or 1000 kyats. 50th Street Bar and Grill is very good. Go to the Strand Hotel in Happy Hour to experience the old colonial atmosphere!
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| J Mcadoo |
08 December 2002 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Bagan is a magical place. The best thing to do is hire a bicycle from the hotel($3 for the whole day) and just get out and explore. Get off the roads and cycle on the many tracks past the temples - you can't get lost. We also took a day tour round the temples with Diethelm travel for $30 - two half days is probably better if you have the time.
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| F Bochmann |
04 December 2002 |
Stayed at Sedona Hotel Mandalay - Mandalay, Myanmar.
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Easy to get around. Take a "Baby-Car" to catch the atmosphere.
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| M A liu |
13 November 2002 |
Stayed at Hotel Nikko Royal Lake Yangon - Yangon, Myanmar.
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Getting around Myanmar is very cheap, everywhere you go it cost about $1.50 to $2.00 dollars, sometimes it can be cheap as $.50 cents but just have to work the taxi driver a little and they will take just about anything. Taxis are quick and it's safe to get around.
Far as food go, I will not recommend a restaurant called M3, it's not clean and the service is not that great, and they can never serve you what they have on the menu, to top it all off it's one of the more costlier place to eat.
But here is a place I would go back and back, in fact I ate there 5 times on this trip alone. The place is called THEIK DI SHIN its located on #331,333 Anawrahta street corner of 1st st. The food is wonderful and the price is awesome. Me and 3 others order everything on the menu and it cost me $7.00 dollars, that's with drinks and all, and the food is so good....! And the service is second to none...!
One time while we were eating dinner at THEIK DI SHIN we ran out of Myanmar money, we called the hotel Nikko and ask the taxi driver to bring us money and he did so, I can tell you one thing, there is not a taxi driver in the whole world would do that especialy to a stranger who they just met at the hotel, he goes by the name of Mr. John. Back to the restaurant, the waitress make about $12.00 dollars a month, and on our last dinner the waitress went to the market which takes about 20 minutes by bus to buy us gifts and some food on the street they they don't serve on their menu out of her pocket, don't get me wrong, we tipped her very good but to do all this, this can only happen in Myanmar. The people are wonderful and if you are thinking of taking one Asian trip in your life this would be the place...!
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| C Kruczynski |
12 October 2002 |
Stayed at Bagan Hotel River View - Bagan, Myanmar.
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Overwhelming number of temples to visit. Best by horse cart (1 US$ per hour) or bike (very cheap).
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| C Kruczynski |
09 October 2002 |
Stayed at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel - Yangon, Myanmar.
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2 days can be filled with visits to breathtaking Shwedagon Paya and the city center with market. Taxis from Kandawgyi Palace Hotel to both 1-2 US$.
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| S Bray |
09 October 2002 |
Stayed at Thande Hotel Old Bagan - Bagan, Myanmar.
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We had an excellent tour guide that we met at the ferry. Because we were only in Bagan for 2 days, we used a car with a driver. Our tour guide was a "horse-cart" driver named Kyaw Kyaw (pronounced Chor Chor), and he accompanied us in the car. He can usually be found near the front to the Old Bagan hotel. We would give him a very high recommendation. If you have the time then a horse-cart tour looks like a good way to tour Bagan.
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| S Bray |
07 October 2002 |
Stayed at Mandalay Swan Hotel - Mandalay, Myanmar.
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Visitors should see Mandalay Hill, Royal Palace and if possible take a half-day trip to Mingun temple. Regular service departs ferry pier early in the morning and returns about lunch time. It is possible to hire a private boat which gives better flexibility and also ensures your money goes to a local person, rather than a government-owned operator.
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| J Walker |
15 August 2002 |
Stayed at Thande Hotel Old Bagan - Bagan, Myanmar.
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I repeat: Use Horsecart 54" Any other horsecart driver can find him for you. His normal post is just up the road in front of the Bagan Hotel.
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