Country Info
- Yangon (Rangoon)
- Capital
- kyat (MMK)
- Currency
- 41,994,678
- Population
- MM
- Country Code
Myanmar Slideshow
Top Hotels in Yangon
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Traders Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
251 reviews -
Sedona Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
97 reviews
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Parkroyal Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
205 reviews
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Sedona Hotel Mandalay
69 reviews
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Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
135 reviews
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The Kandawgyi Palace Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
243 reviews
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Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
62 reviews -
Summit Parkview Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
179 reviews
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Panorama Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
54 reviews
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Central Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
66 reviews
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Thamada Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
66 reviews -
Mandalay City Hotel
103 reviews
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MiCasa Hotel Apartments Yangon (Rangoon)
31 reviews
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Bagan Hotel River View
61 reviews
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Mandalay Swan Hotel
20 reviews -
The Governor's Residence by Orient-Express Yangon (Rangoon)
251 reviews -
Paradise Inle Resort Inle Lake
44 reviews
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Kumudara Hotel Bagan
105 reviews
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Savoy Hotel Yangon Yangon (Rangoon)
155 reviews
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Nadi Myanmar Hotel Mandalay
4 reviews
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Hupin Hotel Nyaung Shwe Inle Lake
17 reviews
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The Strand Yangon (Rangoon)
136 reviews
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Amazing Bagan Resort
81 reviews
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The Hotel at Tharabar Gate Bagan
222 reviews
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November Hotel Inle Lake
1 review
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Hupin Hotel Khaung Daing Inle Lake
6 reviews
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Bagan Thiripyitsaya Sanctuary Resort
138 reviews
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Hotel by the Red Canal, Mandalay
302 reviews
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Seasons Of Yangon Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
16 reviews
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Thande Hotel Bagan
138 reviews
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City Star Hotel & Restaurant Yangon (Rangoon)
6 reviews
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Thazin Garden Hotel Bagan
53 reviews
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Myanmar Panda Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
41 reviews
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Paradise Hotel Nyaungshwe
44 reviews
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Imperial Jade Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
1 review
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Alfa Hotel Yangon (Rangoon)
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Emerald Land Inn Mandalay
30 reviews
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May Flower Hotel Mandalay
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Paradise Inle Resort Mine Thauk Inle Lake
8 reviews
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Hotel Class One Bagan
4 reviews
Yangon
Travel Blogs from Yangon, Myanmar
The question of Myanmar (Burma)
This is a top pick! ... contribute was to talk to as many people as possible to try and help others learn some English - a powerful tool in Myanmar as English language newspapers and magazines can be found while all Burmese-language news is under strict control of the ...
I Have Friends in Rangoon
This is a top pick! The Burmese are fiercely loyal and protective. All along our journey Cameron and I have been adopted by everyone from monks to street urchins to shopkeepers and restaurateurs. Some have glommed onto me and some to Cameron but all have taken to us both. ...
Burmese Daze
This is a top pick! ... them of their plight. From Mandalay we headed back to Yangon, to begin planning our trip to India. For a capital city, Yangon is extremely rundown and seems to exist in another time. The whole country is completely free from western influence and ...
Burmese Days
This is a top pick! ... , which quickly became my favorite of our travels so far, a mixture of ethnicity's from SE Asia and the subcontinent, Myanmar people continued to fascinate us for our whole trip. They are incredibly religious, mostly Buddhist, but with sizable Muslim and ...
Beguiling Burma
This is a top pick! We had ruled out going to Myanmar before we left home. Not for fear of our safety; the political situation in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is very stable for tourists. Unlike Cambodia, where the July election has yet to coalesce into a functioning ...
The road to Mandalay
This is a top pick! ... stayed too but on this occasion I didn't get mistaken for him. Also of note was the appropriately titled "Light of Myanmar Newspaper house". We stopped and admired the fine articles pinned on the notice board outside, of particular note were the pieces ...
Dreaming Spires....
This is a top pick! ... to make him a website so that he may start working for himself and eventually buy his own car. Our last night in Myanmar was spent stuffing ourselves with yet more Masala Dosa at our favourite place followed by yoghurt and fruit at a small café ...
Myanmar - The Pariah State
This is a top pick! ... anywhere. We kind of have it in the back of our mind that these are the rich people though! As a quick overview Myanmar was previously a British colony. When Myanmar first gained independence from Britain it was the wealthiest nation in SE Asia as it has ...
Capitalism Yangon style
This is a top pick! ... is pretty heavy, so don't take pictures of anyone in uniform or of strategic State buildings, like the Ministerial Offices, Myanmar Economic Holdings or the Directorate of Hotels and Tourism Services ;-) The main sights I managed to see here were The ...
A 76ct diamond, no not on Lady E’s finger
This is a top pick! ... with listening to music, and visiting our final tourist attraction the mighty Shwedagon Pagoda (the most important religious site in Myanmar). This was another contribution to the Government coffers but we cannot see how there is any money left after ...
Chapter 31: Me and Myanmar, Part 1
This is a top pick! ... to speed on world events in Myanmar than anywhere else in my travels! As an aside, the standard of accommodation in Myanmar was excellent, and I thought rooms were generally a better value here than elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Food was similarly tasty ...
I Never Learned the Burmese Word for Goodbye
This is a top pick! ... table at the old teashop near the Central Hotel and ordered a hearty plate of four curry vegetable puffs and a cup of milky Myanmar tea. I watched an old couple impeccably dressed across from me; he in crisp white mandarin collar shirt and jacket with a ...
A Political Essay
This is a top pick! ... 's death, however this occurred in December 2002, nothing changed. As an asside, the military changed the name of the country to Myanmar and the names of various cities and towns (i.e. Rangoon to Yangon) not long after the 1990 elections to 'remove ties ...
A Trip Back In Time
This is a top pick! ... tourists. More info on this at the start of september. I've decided to head to Pyay next on my trail through Myanmar, a small town with a great Pagoda which rather convieniently breaks up the journey to Bagan nicely. From my understanding there won't ...
DEUTSCH: Myanmar
This is a top pick! Myanmar: 23.06.08 - 11.07.08 Nachdem wir in Thailand einige nette Leute von Myanmar kennengelernt hatten sind Dave und ich neugierig geworden und haben spontan entschieden uns selbst einen Blick ueber das Land zu verschaffen. Um ehrlich zu sein,wusste ...
Yangon
This is a top pick! ... and get another cab. After a little nap once we arrived at our hotel he started to see the funny side of it. Yangon seemed different to me after spending the last month in Burma. Instead of the interesting variation of life and new and wonderful ...
Rangoon Return
This is a top pick! Rangoon felt very different on my return, I was now much more used to the people, the clothing, the poverty, just what everything looked like. I liked Rangoon, there wasn't much to do, but it was nice to walk around the centre & just feel the relaxed ...
In Myanmar/Burma!
This is a top pick! So I've actually ended up in Myanmar/Burma! A bit of a last-minute decision, but it was easy to fly from Chiang Mai to Yangon (Rangoon) and I'm also travelling with Daren, a guy from the Boulder area I met before I left. I'm all for adventure and ...
Myanmar Needs Help
This is a top pick! ... had escaped from their country to live happily and contently with very little. It is frightful what is happening in Myanmar; innocent people and the most revered members of the population are being killed. Valid petitions to help stop the ...
Burma summary
This is a top pick! I drifted in and out of sleep on the bus from Bagan, and when we were held up for 45 minutes at around 6am I knew we were well behind schedule. Whilst I felt ok during the evening, my stomach played up again in the morning and I actually had cramps for ...
A Giant Leap into the Unknown
This is a top pick! Tear up you Lonely Planet, ignore Tony Blairs boycott and jump into the wonderful world of Myanmar. So far off the backpacker circuit of SE Asia, the country is truly magnificent. Although at least 50 years behind the rest of Asia and with traveling ...
What I Have Learned (Episode II)
This is a top pick! ... you can apparently become a taxi driver. *If there are any taxis with air-conditioning in Rangoon I've never seen them. *Myanmar has the worst sidewalks in all of Southeast Asia. Some countries may have comparably dangerous ten foot drops in the ...
Rangoon Dreams
This is a top pick! ... ; of temple chimes, church bells and the calls of the imam. Though the name has changed little else has on the surface. Yangon is a quirky cosmopolitan city but not along the lines of the other larger Asian capitals whose brash attempts at westernized ...
Burmese Culture Shock
This is a top pick! I arranged a visa & flight & made my way to Burma, flying into Rangoon International airport, which was a quite optimistic description, as there appeared to be only another plane or two there as we arrived, which is quite symptomatic of Burma's ...
The Burmese Fashion Show
This is a top pick! Burma just gets more bizarre......a 15 hour bus journey back to Yangon through river beds, over wooden bridges etc etc. The lady next to me on the bus stared at me for two hours, then got travel sick and threw up all over my feet...whie I was holding her ...
Magnificient Myanmar!
This is a top pick! Who would have believed it????????????? Gazza and I staying dry for 2 whole days before our flight to Yangon in Myanmar? Even William Hill wouldn't have given it odds!! With pats on the back all round and early nights too, Gary and I sucessfully caught ...
Yangon
This is a top pick! ... smaller notes get pretty grubby but are usefull to keep in a back pocket to hand to any would be guides etc. Yangon is about as modern Myanmar gets and on first impressions you may be shocked. The streets are all broken down, mud and dirt everywhere ...
Beneath the surface.
This is a top pick! I didn't have any time to think about Burma before I left Thailand, so I had no expectations whatsoever as I got on the plane. This could explain why I was so astonished with everything I saw in the country from the moment I left the airport to the ...
On the road to Mandalay
This is a top pick! ... take us into the city. We found one, and as he was driving us to our hotel, he did the hard sell, wanting us to do a tour of Myanmar in his car. We considered it, but decided to go our own way. On the way in, we did see Shwedagon in the night all lit up, ...
We are in Yangon
This is a top pick! ... we'll find another internet cafe until we get to Mandalay though. Colonial Decay and Mix of Religion Yangon, or Rangoon, is the capital of Myanmar. It's filled with beautiful but decaying old colonial buildings, mixed with ugly modern concrete ...