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Yangon
Myanmar
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Yangon
Myanmar, flights to Yangon, Bangkok to Yangon
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Yangon or Rangoon
is the biggest city in
the country with over 4 million and
a great landmark, the Shwedagon pagoda.
Myanmar
travel almost always starts in Yangon
and one of the first sightseeing tour is to
the Shwedagon pagoda. Yangon Myanmar
or Rangoon has plenty of other attraction,
its a truly old fashioned Asian metropolis
the visitor can feel colonial times almost
at every second step.
Since flights to
Yangon are cheap today,
around $ 100,- from
Bangkok to Yangon a trip is easy but it
needs a Myanmar visa. In Bangkok the Myanmar
embassy issues visas within a day. The city is not only
interesting during the day, there is also a
substantial Yangon nightlife if there is a
single traveler he can meet for sure an
attractive Yangon girl in the bars and
nightclubs.
The
city is located in the
Ayeyarwady or Irrawaddy delta, surrounded by water on three
sides and hard hit by a Cyclone Nagis some
time ago. There are plenty of Yangon Hotels
to cater all the tourist and business crowd,
cheap hotels in Rangoon
are mainly
family owned hotels off the center.
Bangkok to
Yangon
flights
are plenty this days and your
Yangon flight will probably be
from
Bangkok or Singapore
Changi Airport. There are
also other flights to Yangon from
Kuala Lumpur,
several cities in
China and
from the Indian subcontinent.
Yangon airport
has got a new international arrival and
departure terminal which looks good and
works good. The domestic terminal is still
the same. From the
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domestic
terminal the state owned Myanma
Airlines via a JV and
privately owned Yangon Air, Air Mandalay and
Bagan Air are operating, actually the name
is really Myanma Airlines,
not
Myanmar Airlines.
Cheap flights to Yangon are available from
Bangkok by Air Asia. From Yangon
Airport you can easily reach the city
center using the taxis waiting outside the
new airport building, for another
flight to elsewhere in Myanmar check with a
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Flights
Bangkok to Yangon are not
expensive,
the price range
usually is Baht 4xxx,- for a
return ticket from Bangkok
to Yangon up to about
Baht 9xxx,- to cheapest
airlines are always Air Asia
and Myanmar International
Airlines and the most
expensive are always Thai
International and Bangkok
Air. Flights to Yangon have
been increased in the few
years quite a lot after
Chinese airlines started
with flights to Yangon. You
need to negotiate
the price, there are
also limousine
counters inside the
building, their cars
are substantial more
expensive to go to
down town or
elsewhere. Traveling
downtown in a good
taxi or limousines,
is around $ 10,-. A
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Bangkok to
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ride to down
town is about $ 5,- for the trip, but this
cheap taxies usually are really rotten, just
moving junk and no air-condition. Yangon
apartment operations are JV
with Japanese companies. The
landmark of the city is the
Shwedagon pagoda.
Yangon Hotels are plenty
and easy to find in the city and
relatively cheap. In general your
holidays to Myanmar are not
expensive if you like. If you use
lets say the Central Hotel or Asia
Plaza Hotel (a Myanmar girl is
always around at the disco of the
Asia Plaza Hotel) right in the
center of you get a good room for
about $ 30,-The Central Hotel is
just beside the Trader hotel and
opposite Bogyoke market.
Hotel which is the biggest hotel in
town.
The Trader hotel
charge from $ 50,- upwards. Prices are
probably higher now since they managed to
get the UN personal to move to the Trader
hotel from the International Hotel where the
UN staff was before. After the cyclone Nagis
almost all prices of
hotels and
other stuff got a push upwards since the UN
and NGO staff pay any price, who cares about
western taxpayers donation money who finance
all this finally, they all are still in the
country.
Basically there are 3 variants of
hotels.
First are the city hotels as
indicated here, second are
the smaller privately owned hotels off the
city center, plenty of this cheap Rangoon hotels are in
the Windermere district north of the
Shwedagon Pagoda and third are apartments
which usually also offer just the normal
hotel services .
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Central Hotel
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Yangon city
hotels
for every taste and
budget. All kind of
entertainment
is on in Ragoon, from the simple bar in
one of the hotels,
to karaoke lounges, nightclubs, discos,
marionette or puppet theater show , fashion
show -mainly in the nightclubs and discos-
if you are a single guy traveling Bangkok to Yangon
Myanmar you can find a companion in one of
the nightclubs very easily. There are
several other good hotels such as
the
Kandawgyi Palace Hotel
at Kandawgyi Lake, this Yangon Hotel is
probably the most beautiful and has a
excellent location at the Kandawgyi or Royal
Lake, more.
The most expensive hotel is
the Strand Hotel. During British colonial
times the Strand together with the
Oriental Hotel in
Bangkok were the best hotels in
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this Yangon Hotel
is the location, its Strand Road just along
the port where most of the day a
awful caravan of extremely stinking trucks
are doing their job. About 30 minutes drive
from downtown to the north is Inya Lake with
the Inya Lake Hotel, a good hotel with a
great location on the lake. The biggest
problem with the Inya Lake Hotel is to get a
taxi. At the same road is one of the other
bigger hotels, the
Sedona Hotel.
The
Queens Park Hotel
is a budget hotel in downtown.
Here is a short hotels
and accommodations listing:
Grand MeeYaHta Hotel & Apartment - high end
Summit Parkview Hotel - medium range - (beds
are totally worn out and over used)
Savoy Hotel
- high end
Governors residence
- high end
Trader Hotel
- high end
Thamada hotel
- low end
City Star Hotel - low end
Queens Park Hotel
- low end, but reasonable and cheap.
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Central hotel and Asia Plaza Hotel
- medium range and probably the best hotel
deal in the city considering the price,
location, service and amenities. A good low
budget hotel alternative
would be to try one of the
small family run hotels
which are everywhere in the
city and particular in the
area north of the
Shwedagon Pagoda around the
Sakura Hotel and Apartments
which itself is a
high end
accommodation,
flights to Yangon
are available to let
you experience a
great Myanmar
vacation. If you
want to stay a
little bit longer
have a high end
hotel and apartment
try the
Grand MeeYaHta Hotel,
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Shwedagon pagoda is the Landmark of
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excellent location in the city center. If
you are out for a adventure hotel
accommodation you
could try the Asia Plaza Hotel in
downtown, they have a low price, the rooms
are ok and quite spacious, even a bathtub is
there and hot water works, a good
location and the best nightclub in town with
plenty of
Myanmar
Model Girls
working
there, they do fashion show and more, this
place is closed now (end of 2011) but will
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A
Yangon
pagoda
for a single guy who want to
have some positive
experiences, guess why ' So
what to do ' flights to
Yangon are the first step
is
legend that's the Shwedagon
Pagoda, but there are plenty
more. The Shwedagon is the top, a prime
pilgrim destination in the
Buddhist world, in
particular Buddhists from
Korea, Japan and China are
on
a pilgrim
tour to Myanmar and the
Shwedagon
Pagoda, most come in via
Bangkok to Yangon. If you do
a visit to the Shwedagon do
it in the late afternoon, at
least after 3 pm, because at
that time there are already
some shadows along the
building of the pagoda
platform (the Shwedagon is
not only one
Buddhist temple
or pagoda, there are dozens
of shrines and small
pagodas) since the sun heats
up the marble slabs to a
extreme temperature, you
cant walk there between 10am
and about 3pm.
Visiting
Yangon pagodas
are highlight of any travel to Myanmar,
there are plenty and the biggest and most
spectacular pagoda is the Shwedagon,
read more.
Yangon shopping
from a travelers point of view means Bogyoke market.
What would Yangon travel be without visiting
Bogyoke market, Bogyoke Aung San Market in
the city center is the premier bazaar and
probably in whole Myanmar. The right place
for the special
Myanmar souvenir
you better bring back home from your Myanmar
trip, read more. Jewelry shops
offer famous
Myanmar ruby
and other jewelry, the little problem is,
style is rather old. You can find
pearls shops,
plenty of
jade shops offering beautiful
jade items,
like jade bangles and jade rings. Puppets or
Marionettes are very popular with tourists,
also all kind of wood carved items,
more.
Yangon traffic is
rather unconventional ,
although it is very chaotic as in almost
every Asian city I have never a major road
accident in more than 20 years since the
people are very careful, when I am in
Thailand I see a major road accident every
day, that's real, no yoke,
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Yangon Bogyoke Market
is the place for shopping in the city. This
is an old fashion bazaar with all the goods
which are attractive to foreigners and
tourists who want to shop for some country
specific items and souvenirs. There are
plenty of jade shops, ruby stores, Myanmar
jewelry
shops. Woodcarvings,
tapestries, puppets or
marionettes, clothing,
antiques, Buddha Statues. Some of the most attractive
items are jade jewelry, some
are amazingly low priced,
but are genuine jadeite.
This is one of the very last
genuine oriental bazaar, all
other old markets elsewhere
in the region were pulled
down and changed to some
faceless shopping malls,
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At Yangon city street markets
are around everywhere
also very close to several Yangon
hotels, its like the
street markets in
Bangkok, men's carrying fruits, chetty or cigars seller are around they
usually also sell betel and cosmetic items.
Women selling lemonade by simple pouring the
liquid over some pieces
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Street Market
at Chinatown
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ice into a cup. Many people have
Indian roots, a legacy of
British colonial times are very
busy on the roads.
Myanmar golf
is also a British legacy. Actually downtown
are several quarters where
mostly Indian people are living.
A other quarter,
not far off to the west along
the main city roads is Yangon
Chinatown.
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has one strange
feature, its the only Chinatown
in Asia where there are no
Chinese letters visible.
Compared to other similar places
such as
Kuala Lumpur Chinatown
or
Penang Georgetown Chinatown
etc. its real unusual,
more.
A Yangon
Market
is almost behind ever "second"
corner, selling fresh
vegetables, fruits and local
fast food. The markets are
usually full with all kind of
local fruits such as apples,
oranges and much more. This is
very different to other south
east Asian countries because
Myanmar is one of the very few
countries in the region who has
large parts of lands at a higher
altitude, this is mainly Shan
State and Kachin State,
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