Burma (Myanmar)

Pros: Great food, views,cheap, friendly staff
Cons: rooms need more attention

if you are thinking of going to Yangon (Rangoon) and need accomodation for a short period consider staying at this hotel it is a good option

The Kandawgyi Palace Hotel (pronounced kan-dogee ) is located in Yangon, Myanmar it is...

Pros: Excellent food
Cons: No air-conditioning in the rooms and it's sweltering in summer...

The Inle Lake View Resort, Inle Lake (This is actually a hotel review but there isn't a category for Hotels in Inle Lake) My husband and I were in the Inle Lake from 28 April 2004 - 1 May 2004. April/May is not a good time to go to Myanmar as ...

Pros: Terrific people, Unbelievable, Different, Inexpensive, Step Back in Time
Cons: Bit of tension, Transportation,

Our family of 4 ( 2 children ages 11 & 13) traveled to Myanmar (Burma) for a total of 8 nights and 9 days. The visit was from June 16th through June 24th , 2005 just at the beginning of the rainy season or so-called “monsoon season”. With ...

Pros: Stunning and refined culture, friendly people, cheap, good food
Cons: For the time being a destination strictly for the adventurous

After South Africa abolished the Apartheid the army of the politically-correct, human-rights-aware travellers (a rather large bunch of people it seems) suddenly found themselves without a country to hate, therefore had to find quickly an alternative...

Pros: Breakfast buffet - Good. Service - Excellent. Location - Excellent. Overall Rating = EXCELLENT
Cons: Little further from downtown. Constant security checks (but understandable). No view of Shwedagon Pagoda.

Name: Dusit Inya Lake Resort Address: 37, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar Tel : (95 1) 662866, 662857-59 Fax: (95 1) 665964, 665537 My dad and I stayed in a Superior Room at the Dusit Inya Lake Resort in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma) for 5 ...

Pros: Pristine, exotic and magical
Cons: Cash only economy

As a traveler that enjoys unique experiences and exotic surroundings, Burma in every way meets this criteria. We just returned (January '04) from a month-long journey of Southeast Asia of which 12 days were spent in this magical place. There is so much ...

Pros: Exotic, time-machine effect of trip back through the decades
Cons: Rough travel, to put it mildly

To travel through Burma is to travel back in time. Landing in Rangoon is like landing in the 1940s. My mission was to see as much of the country as the visa I'd received, which permitted just one week in the country, would permit. Foiled by awkward and...

Pros: Exotic Rangoon, sultry, spiritual Burma
Cons: The dreaded Tatmadaw!

"On the Road to Mandalay"
Where the flying fishes play,
And the dawn comes up like thunder
Outer China 'crost the Bay!"
-Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling never got to Mandalay, or he'd have known that China...

Pros: None
Cons: Collaborate with evil

Review Topic:  OverviewReview Topic:OverviewIf asked, most people will blandly mumble something about their support for democracy in a general non-committal kind of way. But if democratic elections are indeed meaningful...

Pros: people, food, culture, and food
Cons: government sucks

Review Topic:  Overview

I was born in Rangoon, Burma in the mid 1950's. I left Burma to come to USA in the 80's. I still have a lot of my friends and relatives in Burma that I am in constant communication with.

Even...