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All the travel agents will tell you they have the least amount of difficulty emailing to gmail addresses. Note that some email systems...

No one can make this decision for you. Do some research. I've been to both places, both are very special.

Thanks, that is what I thought.

But the change is that many more people are using the internet and the capacity has not changed. All of the new visitors are using the...

hanno, did you do the real VOA, i.e., the flight from Siem Reap to Yangon on MIA?...

The internet is not especially reliable in Burma. My travel agent always said to resend any email that wasn't responded to within two or...

With just a week, fly. Yes, it is more expensive, but do you want to spend your trip in overnight buses or being wowed by the temples of...

If you went to a doctor or a travel med clinic that told you to get this - RUN! There is no Yellow Fever in Asia, only parts of Africa and...

I heard no talk of it at all in Mrauk U.

Somone I know had that happen to her last month. She's a bit of a novice, and was looking for the bank exchange. A kid said he'd take her...

Apparently so, Herbie. Our crew pointed out the double decker boat to us, and that is what they said....

Yes, the bank exchanges started at the airport in late Oct or early Nov 2011. They are the easiest way to change money. ...

Things are in constant flux. I was there at the end of November, and the big double-decker (used to be govt.) boat ran every day but...

My Myanmar visa from 2009, no photo, from 2011, has a photo. India visa from 2010, no photo.

Getting there by road from Bagan is a loooong journey and requires permits which make it more expensive than the flight from Yangon + the...