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... , as a visitr you have to live with it. You've been warned! Great Brands of the World Enough of all that - Myanmar is a fascinating example of impact branding in action. As explained in another entry, many global brands are allowed no more than a ...
its in the passport that we've been, if only for 1 day a shock to see prices a third of thai markets and actually meeting properly poor people (ie in huts like the thais but without the satellit dish). our day in myanmar is not one we'll soon forget.
Monday we headed to Chaing Rai. It was a three hour bus ride but was in a comfy air-con bus so I enjoyed the ride and seeing the countryside. We booked in to the Golden Triangle Inn and made travel arrangements for our tour to the golden ...
... think they can pay in Baht and get sent back) and you can cross for the day into the boring little border town of Tachileik. Just after the bridge, i could've sworn I was back in Nepal. I guess any country that has any Indian influence will have it, ...
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Myanmar travel tips
Posted on Oct 27, 2008, 23:55:13
... agents can exist. By Overland: Overland entry with a Border Pass is permitted at the following Border Check Points: Tachileik and Kawthaung on the Myanmar-Thai border and Muse on the Myanmar-Yunnan (China) border. VISA & EMBASSIES: Myanmar requires ...
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Myanmar Border Crossing
Posted on Feb 19, 2007, 11:02:30
... , and not always safe, so burmese take the plane too. The local private companies are good (not the state-owned one). Tachileik is a border town: smuggling, prostitution, and also normal people doing what they can to earn a living. Worth a look, but mind ...
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Recommendations for Chiang Mai and surrounds?
Posted on Sep 11, 2006, 08:10:46
If you want a glimpse of Burma, you can take a bus to Mae Sai via Chiang Rai, Cross into Tachileik, and head by road to Kengtung, where the treks seem good and quite remote fom tourists. Sounds good, but it's not for me. I had looked ...
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