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Anyone been to Burma recently (last 2 years) ?

Specifically Rangoon and Pagan.

If so I'd be interested to hear how difficult travel between the two was and of any restrictions when you're in Pagan (or what's left of it, by now).

PM me if you prefer.


Pedants: yeah Burma = Myanmar.


Thanks in advance. KK

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er, yes and no - suppsoed to go last year, but an injury forced a cxl.


visa was easy to get at the embasssy off berkely sq, as long as you were hardy enough to brave the daily protestors outside


all seems OK to travel around, no restrictions, but my travel companion ( who went anyway ) experienced a 2 day ( yes 2 day ) delay after some rail track was washed away and he was stuck on the train. Ive still got a LP guide ( pretty much unused ) if you want it

Couple of relatively unworldly friends in their early 20s went there for a fortnight in Autumn 2011, travelled all round, including to Pagan, no problems.


I didn't really expect them to find Heathrow, let alone Burma, but they arrived back unscathed, with the photos to prove it.

KidKruger Wrote:

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any restrictions

> when you're in Pagan (or what's left of it, by

> now).


xxxxxxx


God, what have they done to Pagan?


I was there twenty years ago (yes I know but I wasn't very politically aware at the time) - it was one of the most magical (man-made) places I've ever been.

I was heading up to Pagan last time I was there, but that's when they locked me up so I never made it, they took me to the border and told me to FO. I'd read about it for years and wanted to see it for myself. Since then I've heard about bombs / artillery to flush-out seperatists who were hiding there, resulting in significant damage to the pagodas.

Gutted to hear that.

My Father was in Burma in the 1940's...


He joined the Army because his father did not want his son to follow him down

the South Wales Coal Mines.


After serving 9 1/2 years he was sent home.


A few weeks later his regiment was captured my the Japannese. They were all killed.


Now Burma is a virtual Dictatorship.


Fox.

KidKruger Wrote:

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Since then I've heard about bombs /

> artillery to flush-out seperatists who were hiding

> there, resulting in significant damage to the

> pagodas.

> Gutted to hear that.


xxxxxx


Oh bloody hell.


Mind you, there are/were so many pagodas there, surely they can't have damaged that many of them?


That's terrible, though.

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