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But adventure is not only in northern Myanmar, or in southern Myanmar, there are plenty more adventures destination, one is the area around the border to India in the north west where Naga and Chin people have their remote villages. Also the biggest Myanmar National Park and wildlife reserve, Alaungtaw Kathapa is there, close to Monywa.

The old Burmese outdoor vacation

has evolved into adventure trips, ecotourism and nature-based travel. It means old stuff, new marketing. A new trend are ecotour into the wilderness. If you like a adventure tour with river rafting, waterfalls and great nature a trip to Umphang Thailand, very close to the Myanmar Thailand border south of Mae Sot could be excellent option when you don't like this Myanmar visa proceedings and at this border region almost all the people working in the adventure tour business are Thai and Myanmar Karen.

Spending time in a natural Burmese outdoor setting or participate in adventurous activities is not a new idea, its going on since at least when the English started to conquer the country and brought with them scientists, botanists and many adventurer, that means only the names have changed. If someone feels this is too remote Thailand travel could be combined with a Myanmar trip.

Nevertheless, the creative marketing power behind private travel & tourism groups has pushed outdoor recreation into the consumer consciousness. The many facets of Myanmar adventure travel including the dynamics of the adventure travel market in Asia, the motivations for Myanmar trips, beside of the continuous requests from different groups not to travel Myanmar.

People make adventure holidays for fun and entertainment and to get away from the stress of work and the tedium of daily life. The desire to do something healthy or to add to one's self-image also may be motivating factors. Myanmar vacation often include all of these travel motivations, but thrill seeking plays a unique and important role in any adventure travel. If you want to find some city adventure travel its here in Bangkok.

A Burmese adventure tour

around the eastern Myanmar Thailand border is very similar to travel in Thailand's Kanchanaburi province, Mae Sot and Mae Hong Son but because of the continuous

The activities during a adventure tour are as broad as the imagination allows. Virtually anything that is done outside conceivably might be part of adventure holidays.

Activities on land, like exploring the old temple and pagoda city of Bagan, where you get a feeling to be Indiana Jones , on water, like on a leg rower tour on Lake Inle, in the pristine waters of the Myeik - Mergui archipelago or in the air, like hot air ballooning in Bagan provide things to see and do for nature-based travelers.

Myanmar Ecotourism activities on your Myanmar adventure trip are often a combination of low impact outdoor recreation activities and intense educational experiences in natural golden Myanmar and ecology. Some ecotourism includes service projects designed to benefit the environment being visited.

By contrast, hard adventure trips require real skills in dangerous situations and the target is mostly climbing and trekking the Myanmar mountains of the north which are extensions of the Tibetan Himalayas. Participants usually join together because of an intense interest in some activity outside the confines of commercial interests. Examples might be a climb in the Myanmar Himalayas, rafting wild rivers of the Myanmar Himalayas or exploring the Myeik or Mergui archipelago in southern Myanmar.

From elephant trekking in the Myanmar jungle, camping on the Myanmar Islands, whitewater rafting in the Myanmar Himalayas, outdoor recreation activities are nearly numberless.

Extremes in cold,

heat, and especially  rain can bring discomfort and misery to many vacationers, but is very predictable due to the well known weather patterns in Myanmar. It is useful to make a good travel insurance since exciting activities can be turned by injury or sickness into tough situations. Aside of being the biggest country in South East Asia it's also the country in this region with ice and snow, glaciers and the biggest mountain which is Mt. Hkakabo Razi South East Asia's highest peak at 5,900.Burma is the only country in 

northern Myanmar.

Most activities require no specialized gear as you can see it in the pictures here. A good lightweight rucksack filled with what someone needs for the period of time, photo and video equipment are basics, let the travel agent do the rest, they know how to handle the environment and you pay for it, they will take care of you. The only thing you should bring with you is a very good filled wallet and some basic good health conditions to make sure that you don't collapse after a few few hours

Myanmar trekking.

In the rural and developing areas of the country, nature-based tourism provide an important economic support. This often function often as the only economic sector to get real cash to the people in this regions.

Since tourism is labor intensive and creates a high numbers of small businesses, it can be an excellent economic development tool. Rural and developing areas often contain the best settings for Myanmar adventure travel and Myanmar ecotourism.

The Myanmar tour operators

A good place to start your adventure travel is Yangon (once called Rangoon), which assimilates you into the countries every day life, one of this is no or very limited electricity. Don't use the train unless you are a masochist. Some days in Yangon can acclimate you to the strange sights and sounds of Myanmar and prepare you for your travel. One thing you should know is that crimes against tourists are almost not existent. Taxi drivers are honest if you negotiate the price first.

Be extremely careful when eating street food

at roadside stalls, eat only in the hotel you are or at bigger restaurant. If you go on a trekking tour over some days the tour operator will bring the necessary infrastructure including food with.

Actually at certain places such as Kyaiktyio, which is one of the top Myanmar pilgrim destination in the country, they even take care of this completely, if you cant handle to walk the steep road up to summit of the Kyaiktyio Pagoda Complex, they carry you up in the sedan. 4 guys usually do a good job to lift you up. it costs some money but you have a lot of fun.

When in Yangon and you ask yourself, Myanmar what to do, a excellent idea is a day trip, or maybe 2 days to Kyaiktyio, which is a kind of adventure trip by itself. Its about 140km from Yangon via Bago to the east and after southwards. Even if you are not a Buddhist and just do it for fun without pilgrim in mind, its worth is. This trip opens up spectacular insights into the countryside and Buddhist mind.

- The Myanmar Naga consist as 4 main tribes and 49 clans.

They have their villages around the source of the Chindwin River up to the Indian border and into India.

Naga are very proud people, men wear headgears with tiger tusks, wild bears teeth, bear fur, birds feather and human hairs.
The women wear very light dresses and tattoo their foreheads and chins.

The Naga New Year Festival is the biggest celebration in Nagaland and a great Myanmar adventure trip, many tribes, clans and some tourists join for singing, dancing and other activities. The male dances are remember Kung Fu style.

The Myanmar Naga are separated to the Indian Naga by a border the British defined during colonial times, now there is constant trouble in the area because of this British legacy. As in many other places on this planet, the Brits did a lot of foolish things, after they run away and left the mess to be cleaned up by the others.

Probably the best tour operator to handle a real Myanmar Adventure Tour, not this flimsy pseudo adventure, is Myanmar Himalaya. One of the very positive reason is, they employ people from the most interesting Myanmar Adventure Travel destinations, as mentioned above. Even in their office at Yangon they have Chin, Naga and other people from northern Myanmar working there. Including a good library of book from this areas and lots of of handicrafts. Their office is in the Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon, the Boss is Mr. Kanazawa.