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COSTS: FLIGHTS - BUS - TAXI - TRAIN - BOAT - BIKES - LODGING - SEEING
HOTELS - MISCELLANEOUS       

Yangon:  1 USD = 6,5 kyat official rate or 750 kyat free-market rate.  1 Kyat = 0.06 bef = 0,001515 euro 
Mandalay:  1 USD = 710 kyat

TRANSPORT

  • FLIGHTS
    Brussels – Paris TGV Air France. Paris - Singapore - Yangon, Singapore airlines. Back: Bangkok - Singapore - Paris, Singapore airlines and to Brussels with TGV Air France. Cost: 33 849 BEF. Travel agent : TAXISTOP Brugge Belgium.
    Yangon - Bangkok - Chiang Mai, Thai airways. Cost: 8590 BEF. Travel agent Taxistop Brugge.
  • CAR
    We have rent a minibus 8 seats with driver by email. Included: gasoil, food and lodging driver for 15 days. Price: 525 USD. Pacific Nation Travels & Tours Co., Ltd, Mr Hla Myaing director, Off. 15 Aung Min Gaung Avenue Windermere University P.O. Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 95 -1-723995, 533896, 662811 Ex.131. Fax: 95 -1-525272. Email: pacific@myanmars.net. Http://www.myanmars.net/pacific  
  • BUS 
    Airportbus near Manhora Hotel - airport Bangkok: 100 B per person

  • TAXI
    Shwedagon Paya - Three Saesons Hotel : 500 kyat
    Kinpun to base camp: 3500 kyat up and return down 2050 kyat for 4 persons in an open truck
    Horse-cart Amarapura Ava-kingdom: 1000 kyat / cart
    Airport Chiang Mai - Chiang Inn Hotel: 100 B, as specified in the Lonely Planet
    Train station Bangkok to Manhora Hotel
  • TRAIN
    2 Class Sleepertrain Chiangmai - Bangkok: 2584 B for 4 persons. Departure: 4.25 pm C M - arrival Bkk 5.30 am
  • BOAT
    Speedboat Motamma - Mawlamyaing + 2 trishaws to hotel 2000 kyat
         Nyaunshwe: boattour leg-rowing, starting at the bridge, 2 1/2 hours, asked 1000 kyat per boat - we were glad to pay 1500 kyat. Highly to recommend
     Inle lake, full day 4000 kyat per boat
     Private boat Mandalay - Mingun 5000 Kyat per boat,full day
    Mandalay - Bagan Express ferry 18 $ per person, booked in the hotel, 11 hours trip
    Bangkok: Chao Phraya River Express: 8 B per person per ride.
  • BIKES
    Bagan Hotel Aungmingalar 500 kyat / bike
    Motorcycle Chiang Mai 200 B for a day
  • RESTAURANT - 4 persons
     On driving-days, we had a stop in a local restaurant at noon, we ordered soup, beer, but brought our own picknick with us, bought locally. This was generally accepted by the restaurants - we did not want asian food at noon, we reserve this for the evening
    The driver was invited to take dinner or lunch with us every day - he hardly accepted every other day
    Yangon Karaweik hall, Kandawgyi. Tel: 290 546, 290 547. Fax: 290 545.Dance and dinner - average quality - 2400 kyat per person.
    Yangon Mandarin restaurant : one soup and 3 drinks: 2800 kyat. Dinner: 8500 kyat
    Mawlamyaing 3 persons: dinner 3400 kyat - soup, main cours fish, beer, on Strand rd
    Kalaw Seven Sisters, ( Thirigayhar ), 7 Main Road. Tel: 081 - 50216. Dinner 6050 kyat. Soup, Tandoori chicken (?), drinks.
    Nyaungshwe Hotel Aungmingalar: dinner 6150 kyat. Soup, main dish, desert, drinks
    Inle lake: 6500 kyat 5 persons
    Nyaungshwe Big Drum Restaurant: 4 pancakes, fruitsalad, bottle beer 2250 kyat
    Mandalay Marie-Min Vegetarian restaurant: dinner 3650 kyat 5 persons
    Mandalay Golden Duck restaurant, expensive, famous for its duck with mushrooms. However, I can not recommend it, the duck meat could hardly been eaten, as it was finished with a hatchet - all small splintered bones. I gave up eating: 9010 kyat 5 persons.
    Mandalay BBB restaurant, soup + spaghetti + beer 7250 kyat. No pizzas
    Bagan Hotel Aungmingalar has no restaurant anymore - but there is one next to the hotel: dinner 7500 kyat
    Pyay dinner Christmas eve 11500 Kyat 5 persons
    Bagan San Kabar, Italian specialities & chines food, Nyaung U Main Road, near shwezigon Paya. Dinner 6250 kyat.
    Bangkok Seafood Market and Restaurant: 89 Sukhumvit  Soi 24 ( Kasame ), Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110. Tel: (662) 261-2071-2. Fax: (662) 261-2073. www.seafood.co.th Open 11.30 am. - 11.30 pm.
    Indian Restaurant
     Manhora Hotel breakfast: 874 B for 4 persons. Buffet breakfast, but the one in Chiang Inn was much better
    Cafe India Bangkok: Authentic Indian Food. 460/8 Suriwongse Road opp. Trocadero Hotel - a few steps from Manhora Hotel - same side. Tel: 234-1720, 233-0419. To recommend. Note: I visited this restaurant in 1973, 1987, 2001

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 LODGING: prices per night per room - breakfast included
Yangon  Three Seasons Hotel. Double room, private shower + toilet, transport airport included, email, 18 $ / night p.170 / 189. To recommend - very helpful.
Mawlamyaing Breeze Rest House: room, twinbeds, fan, shared facilities, clean. 8 $ 
Kinpun Hotel San Ceasar, wooden chalet = double room + private shower + toilet, quiet place in a park area, 14 $
Taungoo Hotel Minkyeenyo, double room + private shower + toilet + AC 15 $. Brand new hotel
Kalaw Eastern Paradise Hotel, double room, private shower and toilet, 16 $. Trekking one day 4 persons, lunch included : 20 $ p.350. To recommend
Nyaungshwe Hotel Aungmingalar ( Inle )(same owner in Bagan).Tel: 081-24188. To recommend, quiet place, large garden, restaurant, double room + sitting area outside, private toilet + shower, 18 $ . 
Mandalay Garden Hotel, double room, private bath + toilet + TV +AC 12 $. Booking tickets Express Ferry Mandalay - Bagan
Bagan Hotel Aungmingalar quiet place, large garden, no restaurant, double room + sitting area outside, private shower + toilet, 15 $. To recommend. Bicycles to rent 500 kyat / bike
Pyay Sweet Golden Land Motel and restaurant, 12 Nawaday lan. double room + private shower + toilet. Toilet not flushing, fan removed, 30 meters tape per room to keep ceiling, carpet, walls on place ....    Not to recommend 20 $ - the highest price we paid in Myanmar 
Chiang Inn Hotel Chiang Mai: Double room + buffet brfst, private bath, … 27 USD. Booked with internet from Belgium. The hotelprice advertised in the railwystation was slightly less. To recommend
 Manhora Hotel Bangkok: Double room, buffet brkfst, priv. bath, 1100 Bt. Booked from Belgium with internet. To re

SEEING

Shwedagon Paya:  5 $ / p
Bago Shwemawdaw Paya 2 $ + camera fee
Nyaungshwe: puppetshow 2000 kyatt - 4 persons.
Inle lake: entrance fee 3 $ / p + camera fee
Inle Tradition Silver Smith, Pyin Lun Qr., Hear Ywarma, Inle, Shan State
Pindaya caves: 3 $ / p, camera fees 500 kyat
Mingun entrance fee 3 $ / pMandalay Golde Duck
Anapura site entrance fee + boat rivercrossing 3 $ / p 
Sagaing hill entrance fee 3 $ / p + extra fee in some temples + camera fee
Myanma Bronze Moulder Casting, No 58 - 45 th street, between 83 rd & 84 th, Mandalay. SHOP: Nr 93 Panthidan,Tampawaddy, Chanmyathase Township, Mandalay. Telephone: 23 182
Bagan entrance fee 10 $ / p

Bangkok Grand Palace: 200 B

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USEFUL ADRESSES

HOTEL/GUESTHOUSE
Yangon  Three Seasons Hotel 83-85, 52 Street Pazundaung Yangon, Fax: 95.1.297946. Tel: 95 - 293304. Email: phyuaung@mptmail.net.mm  Very helpful, to recommend.
Mawlamyaing Breeze Rest House: 6 Strand Road. Helpful.
Minkyeenyo Hotel Taung-nug ( Taungou ), 652 / 653 Nandakyawhtin street Minkyeenyo Ward, Bago Division. Tel: 054 - 21611
Mawlamyaing Breeze resthouse 6 Strand Road, clean, twin beds, fan and shared facilities 4 $ per person
Kalaw Eastern Paradise Hotel, 5 Thirimingalar street, tel: 081 / 50087, to recommend. Good guide for trekking
Bagan Hotel Aungmingalar, Nyaung u Rd, Nyaung U, opposite the Shwezigon Pagode. Beautiful garden, tel: 95 - (0)62 - 70406. To recommend
Mandalay Garden Hotel: 174, 83 rd street, between 24 th and 25 th. Tel: 02-31884 / 25184 Fax: 95-2-31047
Nyaungshwe ( Inle ), Diamond Starguesthouse, Win Yat, Paung Daw side road, new building, double 15 USD, single 10 USD, fan and hot water
Inle lake Aungmingalar Hotel: Boat station road, Nandawunm quarter, Nyaungshwe. Tel: 95-81-24188
Chiang Inn Hotel Chiang Mai: ( FLAIRVIEW TRAVEL or HOTEL RESERVATIONS SYDNEY ).). Chiang Inn Hotel, 100 Chan Klan Rd, Amphur Muang Chiang Mai 50100 Thailand. susanna@accomline.com Tel: 66.53.270070. Fax: 66.53.274299. 
Manhora Hotel Bangkok: Tel: (02) 234-5070 Fax: (02) 237-7662, 412 Suriwongse Rd, Sipraya, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500. sandee@hotelthailand.com .Double room, buffet brkfst, priv. bath, 1100 Bt. Booked from Belgium with internet

MISCELLANEOUS - Burma LINKS

Airport tax Bangkok: 500 B per person
Kalaw: Licenced trekking guide: Mr Thet Win Naung (Win), eaatern Paradise Motel, tel: 081-50087. To recommend - speaking fluently english
Nyaungshwe, Aung, tradional puppet show, Yonegyi Road 9, besides Ever Green hotel.
Tour guide and driver: Kyaw Win Than, 254, 6-street, D-block, Waipoukla, North Okklapa, Yangon. To contact him, call; phone 95-1-699508 and email: guestcarehotel@mptmail.net.mm. He was our driver and guide - to recommend

Interesting websites: www.myammarnews.net - www.myanmars.net - www.myanmarreizen.com - www.1000traveltips.com  - www.lonelyplanet.com - www.kasbah.com - www.excite.com

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