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RE: Airport Transfer (Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay, Heho)
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I see Zeke. I think they may be same taxi drivers that taxi stand call upon. They wait outside th...
RE: Flights from BKK to Yangoon
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The Air Asia flight is at 7:20 am so if you're coming from Oz, stacky, you'll need to overnight i...
Re: Airport Transfer (Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay, Heho)
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Can't pay for a Yangon airport taxi with dollars? Not at all in my experience.
Zeke, yes, of...
RE: Airport Transfer (Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay, Heho)
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The problems with taking a local taxi off the street outside the airport when you arrive at Yango...
Re: Airline safety
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+No.... Mandalay Air used to claim they were the only Myanmar airline that had European certifica...
Re: Clothing
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Is it really getting less?
Amongst the younger generation, yes.
Re: Clothing
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Make everybody wear longyis. Very cheap in Burma.
When I first started visiting Myanmar in ...
RE: Exchange rate to US Dollar
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When I started going to Myanmar around 2001, the exchange rate was about 600 kyat to the dollar b...
RE: I WANT TO LEARN KHMER!
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This might sound simplistic, but the best tutor for you would most probably be your boyfriend. I ...
RE: Inbound Tourism Booms:
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I just booked my flight on Air Asia between Bangkok and Yangon around Christmas time and so far, ...
RE: Government obsession with clean US$
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When I was changing money at a shop in Mawlamyine in July, the shop owner called a friend to ask ...
RE: Government obsession with clean US$
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So the government needs crisp new bills so they can do international trade? Where did you hear th...
RE: Myanmar Visa so easy from London!!
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They never check the accommodation address you state on your visa application. I've been using th...
RE: Government obsession with clean US$
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Yes, totally agree. I've had many a long chats with the ladies at the airport tax counter about t...
RE: Inbound Tourism Booms:
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moonwire, 260,000 was last year's numbers. :) A boom for Myanmar would be in the order of 500,000...
Re: Inbound Tourism Booms:
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Yes, me too, Bretton. It took about 3 and half weeks for the Myanmar Embassy in Canberra to proce...
Re: Kyaiktiyo, Mawlamyine,Hpa-an
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Lots of good information about Mawlamyine and Kyaiktiyo from this website:
[www.mawlamyine.co...
Re: donating money
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I thought Dr Cynthia's clinic on the border between Thailand and Myanmar would have been the obvi...
RE: Exchange rate to US Dollar
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Good point made there by Nikom. Another term that can be used instead of 'black market' is the "f...
RE: Laptop
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Yes, I've taken mine in for the last 4 or 5 years. It's no problem.
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