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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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 Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject: Cheap flights to Burma? |
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| Anyone know where I can get the best deal for traveling to Burma? I'm looking at going for about 9/10 days in July. |
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tehdee
Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:31 am Post subject: |
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air asia via bangkok or Kuala Lumpur
(air asia also flights out of seoul to both of these places now...) |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:04 am Post subject: |
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yeah Air Asia out of Bangkok is your best deal though you will have to overnight it in Bangkok if you're coming in from Seoul as their one flight is at 7am.
you might be better off going via kl on Air Asia though the flight down to kl is a red-eye not sure about the costs Bangkok-Yangon was around $100 r/t
i'm going the end of next month for 3 weeks, 3rd time i've been there its so neat. I'm taking Thai 780k with a 3 week layover in BKK, easy connection with the morning flights.
EDIT: tehee Air Asia DOES NOT fly nonstop from Seoul to Bangkok they are now offering some connecting flights instead of their old point-to-point policy
Also if you decide to fly Air Asia to KL you will have a 12 hour layover in KL as their flight to Yangon is at 6P |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheers for that. Anywhere or anything you'd recommend seeing/doing? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| Cheers for that. Anywhere or anything you'd recommend seeing/doing? |
A ton of places, too many for here.
1) Schwedagon Pagoda in Yangon a bunch of other sites there, Sule Paya is also good
2) Inle Lake, supposedly good trekking around there
3) Temples of Bagan on par with Angkor with 1/100th the crowd
Mandalay is either love/hate, the city itself is so-so, its what outside the city that should draw you
pm me for other details. |
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alwaysbeclosing100
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject: re |
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mount popa......it is also a great country for trains......motherland II is a great place to stay in yangon.....
the KL flight direct to yangon is very convenient on air asia..... |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:10 am Post subject: Re: re |
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| alwaysbeclosing100 wrote: |
mount popa......it is also a great country for trains......motherland II is a great place to stay in yangon.....
the KL flight direct to yangon is very convenient on air asia..... |
guy at ocean pearl said train to mandalay is awful, then again he might have a cut in a travel agency. i did hear there is a new highway from yangon to mandalay that cuts the bus time to 9-10 hours or so. might try that this summer.
the air asia flight from kl to yangon is now very inconvenient leaving at 6p and the return is at 8p, especially if you are coming from here, its a little better from bangkok if you take the early nonstop to bangkok on thai you can make the connection.
stayed at motherland 2 a couple of years ago, its ok a bit far out from sule and it books out, ocean pearl is a better choice if you ask me |
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alwaysbeclosing100
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:02 am Post subject: Re: re |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
guy at ocean pearl said train to mandalay is awful, then again he might have a cut in a travel agency. i did hear there is a new highway from yangon to mandalay that cuts the bus time to 9-10 hours or so. might try that this summer.
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i found the trains in burma to be extremely scenic especially with the old tall bridges........speed and comfort were about on par with india...... |
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