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Internet at Rangoon International Airport Airport, Rangoon / Airport Review

At the new Mingaladon International Airport, near the cafe, a few computers are available for websurfing and checking your email. Like every where else in Burma, you need someone to guide you to the various websites bypassing the censorship.. and there is always someone sitting nearby who would get your gmail or yahoo or hotmail.. they charge 4 dollars per hour for internet at the airport..

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Visa on Arrival

If you are arriving by air to Yangon, you can have your visa waiting for you at the airport, if you make the arrangements before hand. I have done this six times and five times it was done by miss eithwe at travels@myanmar.com.mm it takes her about a week to organize it. and she send the approval by email to you and you can show it to the airlines at the time of departure whether it is singapore or bangkok or taipei or kunming or kolkata..also you dont have to stand in line, once inside immigration, a separate office is set up for visa on arrival and you fill in a form and within minutes they stamp the visa on your passport and you walk past the foreigners standing in line .. to the customs area.
if you have time to get your visa in your home country, well and good. i am almost always on the road or in such remote areas (even a cup of coffee is a luxury).. for me this works out perfectly. 20 for the visa to govt and 25 usd for the service. works out cheaper than the 100 usd my brother paid to get his visa in portland oregon through an agency..

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Other Contact: rravels@myanmar.com.mm

Phone: hand phone 09 513 1540

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Website: http://www.myanmartravel.com

Qatar Airways Rangoon, getting there and away Review

QATAR airways based in Doha has become the first middle eastern airline to fly to Yangon directly from Doha, thus connecting Yangon to Middle East, Europe and Indian Subcontinent and Africa. When I visited their offices opposite traders hotel, they were offering 600 usd round trip tickets to joburg and capetown from yangon.. not a bad deal..
For me the interest was to fly to Cochin, which I could do via Doha with good connections. The other way to get to Cochin was via singapore.. you choose

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New Airline in Town Rangoon, getting there and away Review

Apart from the state owned Myanma Airways, considered the worst airline in the world, there are two other private airlines, yangon airways and air mandalay, both shared by the government with foreign investors. a new airline has joined the increasing tourist trade: Air Bagan which flies not only the usual tourist routes but places only myanma airways used to fly for example pu tao in the kachin state.
they use atr 42 and i saw one fokker 100 with their lotus logo on its tail at yangon airport recently

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Website: http://www.airbagan.com

love in the time of rails in myanmar Circle Train, Rangoon / Yangon Review

this picture depicts the tenderness of ordinary people of burma. he sells water in the circular railway line and she is his wife and has brought their son to see the father and bring him his lunch. I watched for the time she was in the train and the love and tenderness between them all and was quite touched. She got off at another station when he finished her lunch and they had chatted or a while. and he continued on his water selling route.

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circle line of the burmese railways in rangoon Circle Train, Rangoon / Yangon Review

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have a few kyats ready at the railway station

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