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In this issues...
DJ YU Bringin Passion to a Changing Scene Noe Noe Aung interviews Yangon’s latest up and coming musician DJ Yu about her growth, her struggles, and the passion that drives her to perform
snapshots
8 History: The Lokanat building 10 Tribes: The Kayah 12 Religion: Nats 14 Infograph: How To Tie A longyi! 15 Language: How to ask for directions
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Festivals
Exposure
In Focus
Yadana Gu Nat
The Copper
The Second Child of
Festival
Hunters of Monywa
Ching - La Carovano
18 Festival: Boe Boe Gyi Nat Festival 19 Calendar
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22 Copper Hunters of Monywa
Picturesque 28 Architecture
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30 Sanctum Inline Resort
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32 Hotel Review: Kempinski Hotel Nay Pyi Taw 34 Restaurant Review: The Second Child of Ching- La Carovano 36 Kitchen Confidential: Red Lentil Soup 37 Mote Lin Ma Yar
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48 Get Away: Mandalay to Myitkyina by train 54 Finding peace in a still and focussed mind
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Ma Thanegi Ma Thanegi writes prolifically about Myanmar, especially the people who are the country’s true representatives. She lives in Yangon.
Yamin Htin Aung
Mohana Gill Mohanna Gill is passionate about promoting Myanmar cuisine, culture and customs to the world and is a five-time World Cookbook Gourmand Award winner. She was born in Myanmar and lives
Noe Noe Aung A Yangon native, Noe Noe Aung has worked as a journalist at The Myanmar Times. Noe Noe Aung is interested in people and their stories and her sense of curiosity drives her to explore new places.
Cliff Lonsdale Cliff Lonsdale is a writer who lives in Yangon with his wife, daughter, and dogs. He writes a regular blog filled with rambling thoughts and general utterings and mutterings at clifflonsdale. com
Connor Macdonald Connor moved recently to Yangon from Australia to pursue a career in journalism. He enjoys eating the local cuisine, listening to music and debaucherous eight-hour brunches. He is enjoying living in Yangon and hopes to continue learning Myanmar.
Ann Wang Ann Wang is an awardwinning visual journalist based in Yangon. She holds a masters degree in photojournalism from Boston University and has lived in Taiwan, New Zealand and China. She is a regular contributor to The Stand, The Huffington Post and JetStar inflight magazine. Her work can be viewed at www.annwphoto. com
in Malaysia.
Editor Daniel Alexander Roca Assistant Editor Noe Noe Aung Contributing Writers Ma Thanegi
Mohana Gill
Cliff Lonsdale Tom Lambert
Isaac Malone
Connor Macdonald Shwe Yin Mar Oo Contributing Photographers Aung Kyaw Moe Lwin Ko Taik Phoe Nyan
Robert Tyler
Phyo Hein Kyaw Ann Wang
YAT Group Design & Layout Soe Lwin
Sithu Aung
Min Min Zaw
Tom Lambert Tom Lambert is a freelance political analyst based in Yangon. He has studied civil society movements and human security issues in Myanmar since moving from London two years ago. Much of his time is spent learning Myanmar and is the first to admit it’s a challenge he is losing. So far.
Shwe yin mar oo A freelance writer with previous journalism experiences in the Myanmar Times and Agence FrancePresse. Currently living in Yangon, she occasionally writes for some magazines and journals.
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History The Lokanat BuildinG
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By Shwe Yinn Mar Oo
he Lokanat Building, in the centre of downtown Yangon at the corner of Merchant and Pansodan roads, is an exemplar of the city’s heritage architecture. With one of Yangon’s earliest contemporary art galleries on the first floor and flourishing Italian architecture throughout, it is a symbol of Yangon’s cosmopolitan past. It was built in the early 1900s by Isaac Sofaer, a Jewish trader from Baghdad. Originally known as Sofaer’s Building, it housed businesses such as the China Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Reuters Telegram Co., Ltd., famous photographer Philip Klier’s souvenir shop and retail outlets which sold products from Britain. After Issac Sofaer died it was bought by a family of Indian Surti traders who owned the building across the road (formerly known as Rander House) and its name was changed to the Randeria Building. After World War II, it housed many government offices, including those of the Forestry Department, Sugar Project Board and Ministry of Industry (1). The Lokanat Art Gallery was founded in 1971 by a collective of prominent artists and remains one of the city’s top art galleries. The renowned artist, Paw Oo Thet, spent his time in a small room at the gal-
lery until he died in 1993. Today the building highlights one of the challenges facing almost all of Yangon’s heritage buildings: a complexity of owners, including government ministries. A web of owners is a major constraint for building preservation and renovation. Due to its strategic location, the ground floor of the building is devoted to commercial activities and houses a branch of Kanbawza Bank, Gekko restaurant and bar, Myanhouse souvenir shop and also a teashop. The back entrance on 37th street provides access to a small publishing house on the ground floor and a small guest house on the first floor. The block of Pansodan Street between Merchant and Strand roads features some of the city’s grandest examples of heritage architecture and one of the finest is the limestone-coloured Lokanat Building.
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Tribes THe Kayah BY Noe Noe Aung
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he Kayah are one of Myanmar’s main races. The are 134 national races by official count, of which the eight major races are the Bamar, Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan. According to history, the Kayah people were once included in the Kayin ethnic group. During the colonial era, they were known as the Karenni ethnic group, or Red Karen, because of the colour of their clothes. In 1951, the Karenni homeland and its people were given a new name – Kayah. There are nine Kayah sub-groups and each its slightly different. Kayah men dress their hair with a white head-scarf and wear red trousers and open-fronted jackets. Kayah women dress their hair with a red head-scarf and wear sleeveless red or black dresses with a red or black shawl. The women also wear heavy silver earrings, thick silver bracelets and silver hairpins, and beads around their legs. The Kayah people believe they are descended from legendary half-human, halfbird creatures known as Kinnara (male) or Kinnayi (female). As religious people deeply rooted in their beliefs and culture, they deeply revere their traditions and have their own festivals and dances. The Kayah people worship Nats (spirits) and Buddhism.
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Religion Nats
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yanmar has multiple religious and cultural belief systems, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, as well as an indigenous form of animistic and polytheistic worship involving spirits known as Nats. Official figures show that more than 80 percent of the population are Theravada Buddhists. However, many of the country’s ethnic groups practice Theravada Buddhism in conjunction with Nat worship, involving the propitiation of spirits who can intercede in worldly affairs. Although Nat beliefs differ throughout Myanmar, some are universal. There is an official pantheon of 37 Nats, most of whom are believed to be the spirits of humans who died violently and, unable to accept their fate, have been caught in a limbo between life and death. Worshippers rely on the intercession of spirit mediums to request favours from Nats. Ceremonies to honour the Nats are held when the favour has been granted. Each Nat provides help for a specific purpose, including the protection of cattle, farmland, households, children and women abandoned by husbands and lovers. One of September’s Nat festivals honours and celebrates a protector against danger and enemies known as Bo Bo Gyi.
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How to Ask for v
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be-bat > left nya-bat > right a’ shay. > forward a’ naut > backward kway. pa /cho: pa > Please turn. te. te. thwa: pa > Go straight pyan hle: > Turn back dima yat pa > Stop here
(Bogyoke zay:) ko be-lo thwa: ya. ma’le:? How can I go to (Bo Gyoke) market? (Park Royal Ho-te) ko be-lo thwa: ya. ma’ le:? How can I go to Park Royal Hotel? be-bat cho: pa Turn left. Be na: ma le:? > Where is it?
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Festivals By Noe Noe Aung
Boe Boe Gyi Nat Festival Taungthaman Lake, Mandalay (September 21 – October 3)
T Yadana Gu nat (spirit) festival Amarapura, Mandalay (September 1 – 13)
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he Yadana Gu Nat Festival is also known as Mother of Taung Byone festival. One of the reasons why this event is enjoyable is the necessity of travelling to the festival site by boat. The festival is held each year to honour Medaw, Mewanna, the goddess mother of Mt. Popa. This event is held immediately after the Taung Byone Festival, near Mandalay, which attracts thousands of mediums and devotees who pay homage to the power of
nats. Every year, the festival starts on the 10th day after full moon day of the Myanmar month of Wagaung and lasts about five days. The Yadana Gu Pagoda festival and Yadana Gu nat festival are held simultaneously. During the festivals, boats carrying offerings and filled with dancers and musicians perform in homage to the nats ply the Ayeyarwady River near Mandalay and Amarapura. Most of the pilgrims are from Mandalay, Amarapura, Tada Oo, Sagaing and Monywa.
he Bo Bo Gyi nat festival is one of Myanmar’s famous annual festivals and runs for 12 days. Bo Bo Gyi, also known as Myin Phyu Shin, is one of 37 spirits in the nat pantheon which predates Buddhism but has long been integrated into indigenous religious belief. The ritual of offering food to the spirit is the main event of this festival. Bo Bo Gyi is known as the Rider of the White Horse and is a poltergeist who provides protection from danger and enemies. On the eve of the festival, devotees throw packets of tea leaves at each other. Those who are hit must pledge to attend the following year’s festival. The celebrations start at the entrance to the village, on the altar of Myin Hpyu Shin Bo Bo Gyi. In accordance with custom, villagers prepare five sets of trays, each with seven vegetables and seven pieces of pork. The offerings must be carefully arranged and include steamed rice, tri-coloured glutinous rice and rice formed into animal-shaped cakes. Other staples are pumpkin, coconut, banana, dried fish and fried chilies, garnished with tea leaves and betel nut. The main feature is the pork, which is served on its own or minced into porridge. Offering pork to Bo Bo Gyi is a unique feature of the event because offerings of pork are taboo at other nat festivals. The Bo Bo Gyi festival is also unique for being alcohol-free: alcohol is regarded as an essential offering to the nats at other festivals. Devotees at the Bo Bo Gyi festival do not sing or dance. They simply cook together, worship together and enjoy the food offerings with friends, family, relatives, and pilgrims visiting from other areas. The participants believe that they will enjoy health, happiness and good luck.
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CALENDAR
Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival, Inle Lake (October 25 - November 1) Thadingyut Festival of Light, nation wide (October 27 - November 7) Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda festival, Mandalay (Otober 27-28)
October 2015 Indein Pagoda festival, Inle Lake (October 14 - 17)
This Buddhist ceremony is held at an ancient pagoda on Inle Lake.
This festival usually begins one day before the full moon day of Thadingyut and its focus is a huge Buddha image carved from a block of marble. The festival coincides with an annual competition among teams of cane-ball (chinlon) players.
This national festival marks the end of Buddhist Lent and is one of the biggest festivals on the Buddhist calendar. People light candles around their houses and in the streets and homes are decorated with colourful lights. Pagodas, houses, public buildings, parks, and monuments are all illuminated and there are various activities for everyone to enjoy.
Four of the Hpaung Daw Oo Pagoda’s five Buddha images are carried on a golden barge to spend the night at villages around Inle Lake. Their arrival at the villages is greeted with ceremonies and rejoicing. Thousands of people from communities around the lake and villages in the surrounding mountains carry offerings of fruit and flowers on lacquer trays in boats and pay homage as the holy barge passes. Teams of the lake’s famous leg-rowers compete in annual boat races.
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EXPOSURE The Copper Hunters of Monywa By YAT Group
In the Salingyi Township of the Sagain Region, around 200 households from four villages once hunted for copper at the now closed Letpadaung Copper Mine. The Letpadaung Copper Mine was a large surface mine that recently received a lot of international backlash when news about its possible human rights abuses and illegal breaches of economic sanctions incited local protests and police violence. Local residents, many of whom worked at the copper mine to earn approximately K10,000 ($7.80) per 2.6 kg of distilled copper, were forcibly evicted from their homes and exposed to hazardous materials. These photographs were taken in 2013 prior to the closure of Letpadaung Copper Mine.
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Glazed pots are used to help dissolve the copper tailings during the dry season when water levels are low.
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Workers selecy chunks of waste land from which they distill copper.
Workers fill a water resevoir with scraps of tin, where the tailings will soak and break down
Once the tailings dissolve in the water, the muddy residue is extracted and dried
Workers then sift through the dried mud to separate the copper and tin fragments
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As a final step to get raw copper, the raw metals are melted in a kind of oven-like smithy
After being heated and melted, residents pour the molten copper into molds of 1.5 feet length and 3 inches width and cool them down. They send those raw copper blocks to Monywa and Mandalay
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A new 34-story tower undergoes construction in Hlaing Township
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Narcotic Dice
A piece of architecture from the Rander House is shown from a window.
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A Reflection of Yangon City Hall, which was bulit around 1940.
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In Focus
Kempinski Hotel Nay Pyi Taw by
isaac malone
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wiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski is banking on the national capital emerging as a popular tourism destination and opened the Kempinski Hotel Nay Pyi Taw in November 2014 in an agreement with the Kanbawza Group of Companies. The 141-room property, which includes 35 suites in three exclusive villas, occupies spacious grounds in the southeast of Nay Pyi Taw. Facilities include a state-of the art gym, swimming pool and a range of conference rooms. The late-night Diplomatic Bar offers a selection of Myanmar-inspired cocktails and the ‘Rangoon Kitchen’ restaurant serves European fare with an Asian twist. The hotel’s managing director, Franck Droin, takes pride in a menu designed to satisfy both western and Myanmar diners. The large buffet breakfast, with its selection of noodles, mohingya, western-style
breakfasts and cheese and bread selections, is a welcome start to the day. The smartly-designed rooms offer pleasant views of the manicured gardens and feature spacious bathrooms and free Wi-Fi access. The beds, sumptuous and inviting, ensure that guests can drift away and relax during their Nay Pyi Taw visit. Mr Droin said the hotel places particular emphasis on staff training and this is evident the minute you arrive at the reception area, its design inspired by the Konbaung Dynasty: smiles abound as you make your way to your room. The hotel could not have opened with a more high-profile visitor when US President Barack Obama stayed in its aptly-named Presidential Suite during his visit to Nay Pyi Taw in November 2014 to attend an ASEAN summit. The Presidential Suite includes a spacious meeting room featuring traditional
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The rooms are well designed. They include pleasant views of the manicured gardens, spacious and modern bathrooms and free Wi-Fi access. The beds, sumptuous and inviting, are easy places to drift away and relax during your Nay Pyi Taw visit.
The morning buffet includes a wide assortment of European and Asian inspired dishes
A quick dip in the swimming pool offers a relaxing escape
Myanmar décor, a lavishly-appointed bedroom and a private swimming pool, gym and spa. “To have President Obama stay with us was a very good opening for us,” said Mr Droin. Although Nay Pyi Taw has struggled to attract high visitor numbers since it was unveiled as the national capital in 2006, Mr Droin believes that the city will become an increasingly popular destination. “The aim is to create more awareness for people to come,” Mr Droin said. “Nay Pyi Taw is five times the size of Berlin; there are 4,000 hotel rooms, there is a shopping mall, a zoo, and there are museums and parks. But there is a perception of Nay Pyi Taw not being open to the world. I have lived here for one year and I have to say that more and more people are coming,” he said. The government has prioritised Nay
Pyi Taw as a MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) destination and the city has two big convention centres. The Kempinski has also hosted big, high-profile events. They have included an eco-tourism conference and events held during the ASEAN Tourism Forum earlier this year. “There is space, there are no transportation issues, the service and food are good, and the hotels and the airport are fine as well. So there is a lot of leverage there,” Mr Droin said, referring to the city’s potential as a MICE destination. He also believes that being within easy reach of popular tourist destinations such as Bagan and Inle Lake will attract visitors keen to see Nay Pyi Taw’s unique attractions. Apart from its massive parliament and government buildings, the city’s attractions include a zoo where animals have
better conditions than many other zoos in Southeast East, the National Gem Museum, many parks and the Uppatasanti Pagoda. The government recently opened the parliament to a select number of visitors. “Many Myanmar people like to travel and see new places, and Nay Pyi Taw is definitely a place where not a lot of people visit,” Mr Droin said, referring to the city’s growth potential as a destination. “The parliament building also, it showcases the Myanmar government, and I think this is very interesting for tourists, as well as for an educational purpose, of what Myanmar is with regards to moving forwards.” Kempinski is planning to open a hotel on Yangon’s Strand Road in the near future, but Mr Droin said the company is not interested in opening at many destinations. “We believe that luxury is limited, so in Myanmar we will have two hotels, maybe three, but not 20,” he said.
36 | In focus >>> restaurant review: La Carovano
The Second Child of Ching By Daniel Alexander Roca
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or those not familiar with the culinary enterprises of Ivan Pun’s PUN+Projects, La Carovano is its latest foray into the world of contemporary fine dining. Led by chef Kevin Ching, a baseball-cap-wearing, pan-Pacific cuisinier known for globally tweeted breakout restaurant/food truck/Saturday afternoon beer-garden and Port Autonomy, La Carovano is one of Yangon’s must-stop foodie destinations. This second child of Ching, La Carovano, is distinctly unlike his older, established brother. Where Port Autonomy is comfortable with its tattered edges – its lack of walls, air conditioning, cushions and viable water drainage seems to perfectly coincide with the snappy and amalgamated food served on tinny enamelware – La Carovano wants to distinguish itself as the demure member of the family. If Port Autonomy is the place to spend a lazy afternoon watching geese squawk while
They reigned until the country was colonised by the British in 1885, and the last king, King Thibaw, was exiled.
getting boozy on ladles of rum punch, La Carovano is where you go to roll up your sleeves and wax hypothetical while forking tiny nibblets of risotto. It works. But it’s difficult. These sibling roles are reversed. La Carovano should be the older brother – wise and established in his maturity of palette and tradition. Port Autonomy is the young, plucky upstart who walks into a board room wearing a pair of Vans, trying to set himself apart from the task of carrying on the family name. But that’s not the way this family panned out. The dynamics are reversed. And now La Carovano has the arduous task of reeling in the recklessness and spontaneity of his older brother by providing patrons with a sense that there is firm hand at the helm of this ship, while embracing a quality and flair that still says, “Yes, I am of the same family.” In case you’re wondering where that flair is, it’s in the food. The menu ventures away from the ec-
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Clockwisee from top left: Porchetta; Grilled Radicchio Salad; Seafood Risotto; Sauteed Carrots, Fresh Corn Polenta and Potato with Iberico Ham and Salmon Roa; Hamachi Crudo
centric East-meets-West fusion of his brother and explores the cuisine of the Mediterranean. Rustic and familiar, the dishes satisfy your appetite with flavours that warm the heart rather than shock the system. And while the fare is traditional, Chef Kevin has managed to retain that vibrant and bombastic panache that we long for in his food. The Hamachi Crudo, served on a smeared bed of avocado and garnished with micro greens, flower petals and (of course) salmon roe, enters the palette lightly before punching in with its flavour; the smoothness of the avocado spread provides a subtly sweet foundation that melts with the hamachi while the tiny marbles of roe act as self-contained splashes of salty-sweet. It’s not overly whimsical. Its exact and well timed, a dish that needs to be consumed in modest, conscientious bites to fully appreciate the chemistry of what’s taking place. Similarly, the Grilled Radicchio is a whirling dervish of texture, colour and
flavour. Buttermilk, blue cheese, sunflower sprouts, and (yet again) salmon roe, all work together to bring a crunchy, sharply bitter structure that is laced with enough sweetness to make you wonder why you enjoyed it. But you did, and you are going to try another bite to find out why. Other dishes, such as the Zucchini Carpaccio, Seafood Risotto, and Rigatoni with Lamb Bolognese, all bring elements of what is familiar—homey, soul-warming plates that skirt the line between something old and something new. The Porchetta, which I consider to be highlight of the menu, is quite simply a one-plate American Thanksgiving. Creamy, buttery mashed potato embellishes what is already a savoury and fatty mouthful of home. Again, the garnish of rocket and gremolata (a chopped mix of lemon zest, garlic, and parsley) bring contrast to the body of the crackled pork. All of this is built around a selection of equally robust side dishes, such as fresh
corn polenta with feta, sautéed carrots with cumin, yogurt, and za’atar, and potato with Iberico ham and (once more) salmon roe. A plentitude of bruschetta and mezza options also grace the menu, adding to the idea that food around this table is not meant to be the one punch highlights of La Carovano’s hip older brother. Rather, this food is meant to be shared, to bring life to a company of people who know that good food stimulates good conversation. It seems that this second child of Ching understands that his arrival constitutes the beginning of a family, and as such has embodied an atmosphere that welcomes the experience of exactly that: family. It’s relaxed yet attentive, garnering enough maturity to command respect while asking you to leave stuffiness and pretence at the door. Though everything about it feels elevated, the food itself has the playfulness and wit that seems to be in the genetic makeup of Chef Kevin’s food.
Kitchen Confidential
RED LENTIL SOUP By Mohana gill
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large variety of lentils and beans are produced in Myanmar. These ingredients are packed with nutrients and they are used in many dishes, both for their nourishment and taste. This is a traditional lentil soup that is easy to prepare. It is served at almost every meal and has hints of Indian cuisine.
INGREDIENTS
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½ cup red lentils 2 tbsp peanut oil (or oil of your choice) 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped 1-cm (1/2 inch) knob of ginger, peeled and finely chopped Ÿ tsp ground turmeric 6-7 curry leaves 1-litre (32fl oz/4 cups) water Salt to taste Chopped fresh coriander (optional)
Rinse the lentils in cold water Leave to soak for 30 minutes Drain well Heat oil in frying pan at medium temperature Add garlic, ginger, turmeric powder and curry leaves Stir fry for about a minute Add lentils and brown in oil Add the water and cook for 30 minutes or until lentils are soft Taste and season with salt Serve hot, garnished with fresh, chopped coriander (optional)
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Pindaya
A new Trekking destination Written By: CLiff lonsdale Photos By: Robert TylEr
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he sound of rain on the roof accompanies a cacophony of snores coming from the dozen or so men around me on the floor of this monastery. I snuggle further into my sleeping bag, mummified to the extent that only my nose peeks out, uncovered. I’m still cold, but it’s a nice kind of cold. Despite the temperature, the hardness of the floor and the symphony of unsynchronised apnoea, I’m tired enough to know that nothing will prevent me from relishing the fatigued sleep of someone who has completed a decent day’s walking. Early this morning we set off under clear, blue skies on our two-day trek from the small town of Pindaya. Our group, a gaggle of foreign trekkers of varying ages and levels of fitness and a small army of enthusiastic local guides, dutifully follow the energetic and enigmatic U Doh Soe Min (or Mr Doh as he is better known) like children being led by the Pied Piper. He’s excited and sets off at a cracking pace, proud to show us the twenty new trails in the region that he has spent months mapping. I struggle to keep up as he describes the variety of routes he’s been developing. The trail we are on is not one of the more technically different routes, but I discover that it is far from being an easy half-day stroll. Within the first half-hour my knees begin to complain. It occurs to me that I don’t do that much walking anymore, not
proper walking. I might potter around a market or take the dog for an evening stroll, but in my hectic life of meetings, schedules and sedentary work, I rarely have time to walk and I certainly never go walking for the sake of it. If you are inclined to enjoy the luxury of stretching the old legs once in a while, then you are fortunate that Myanmar is blessed with a plethora of pathways, and trekking fans have long flocked to the Shan hills to ply the tracks and trails from and around Kalaw and Hsipaw. These well-established tourist routes have consistently provided great pleasure to hikers from all over the world. They offer a splendid stroll, if a not particularly challenging one. However, these trekking routes are in danger of becoming spoiled by their own success; in the height of the tourist season the Kalaw-to-Inle Lake trail often becomes a long queue of people wearing drip dry clothing or ethically-made ethnic leisurewear – a well-organised, wellequipped, slow-moving odyssey. The Danu Self-administered Zone in Shan State is between Inle Lake and Mandalay, and comprises the townships of Ywangan and Pindaya (site of the famous Shwe Oo Min caves, and a place where tourists often stop off as they travel through the area on their way to or from Nyaung Shwe or Kalaw). The trek I am on is one of the new trails developed by the Danu Literature, Culture and Development Association with support from the Myanmar Institute for Integrated De-
velopment. It is hoped these new trails will encourage more people to visit the area for more than a day. We wind our way uphill on a dirt road for an hour, before Mr Doh darts into the trees without warning. Following him through the gap we find ourselves at the bottom of a steep staircase that disappears into the thickets high above; it appears that our ascent starts here, that last bit was clearly just a warm up. We stumble our way up the uneven, red clay steps and because I am concentrating on keeping my footing, I am unable properly take in my surroundings. Although the steady narrative of entomological and botanical facts from the guides keeps me up to date on what I am missing, my focus remains firmly fixed on the ground. Leaves are plucked and their uses explained, wild fruits gathered and distributed. The guides are keeping themselves busy and are keen to impress. They even collect litter along the way. As we reach the top of the steps, a light drizzle begins. The snippets of information and chatter dry up. Silently we each find our own pace, a comfortable speed through which we can settle into our reveries. Our group stretches out along the trail, each person with a little space to call their own, a place to be comfortable. As the compacted red soil of the path begins to shine, slicked wet with the fine rain, our shoes start to slip and we are forced to slow down. Unable to remove my eyes from the path for fear of foolishly fall-
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“Little novices sit by a pagoda from Pindaya township.�
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Travelers along the trails of Pindaya have the opportunity to enjoy traditional meals with local families
ing, I occasionally pause to catch my breath, marvel at the scenery around me and snap a photo or step aside to allow elderly, slipper-wearing village women to overtake me like wiry mountain goats. We skirt the edges of tea plantations, the smiles of waving tea pickers greeting us. We occasionally venture into the fields or work our way around large rock formations precariously close to the edge. Our journey follows a path stomped into the landscape over the centuries by countless pairs of feet. Occasionally through the trees I catch glimpses of the valley far below and the mountains high above. Then the path veers back through the lush green curtain of foliage, its dark tunnels hiding one another from those in front and behind. Sheltering from the rain at a tea factory, I watch women fastidiously sorting the leaves through a giant mechanical sieve. They barely acknowledge my presence. The harsh flash of my camera momentarily freezes their labour into a frame, but it doesn’t do justice to the effort involved in the process. I feel awkward at the intrusion and wonder how I would react if a stranger appeared in my office and took a few snaps of me sitting at my computer. At another village further up into the hills we are treated to a lunchtime feast – as we are at every meal – and devour our curries and rice in silent enthusiasm. Replete, we stretch and rub our calves, sip
hot, bitter tea from delicate porcelain bowls, and gaze into the hills as women pick tea just below the cloud line. We encounter few men in the tea plantations; many of them are away working in mines. “Good money, but dangerous work,” one of the women said. After several hours of steady uphill walking, we reach the clouds at a plateau and sprawl on the wet grass to catch our breath, the bells around the necks of nearby beasts playing a soothing and mysterious overture. Before we can get too comfortable, Mr Doh drives us onwards. “Not far to go,” he promises. We follow him, splashing through shallow streams, squelching across muddy fords. I am already wet and dirty so I don’t care. In fact, the change in texture of the ground feels wonderful on my tired feet. The word “leeches” is whispered back along the line and I instantly search my uncovered legs for unwanted passengers, racking my memory to remember what is was you were supposed to do if you found one. Do you use salt, or is that slugs? Thankfully, I am leech free. We drop back below the clouds and arrive at our night stop, Yasagyi. Inquisitive children shyly welcome the foreign visitors and we respectfully and gratefully remove our boots at a monastery before being granted an audience with the abbot. This involves more warming green tea. The clouds seem to have followed us and the dramatic scenery of waterfalls and mountains
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Our journey is dictated by a path stomped into the landscape by countless pairs of feet over the centuries. Occasionally, through the trees I catch glimpses of the valley far below and the mountains high above.
quickly disappears as the weak light from the sun is filtered through the fog. A sepia tinge is cast upon our mountain refuge, turning it into an old faded photograph. Eventually the sun gives up, leaving an eerie darkness that descends as swiftly as the temperature. We make ourselves comfortable on the floor of a candle-lit hut, the air warmed by steaming bowls of rice and curry. After emptying them, we retire to our sleeping mats. The next morning, suitably fed and watered, I stretch my stiff muscles and make the necessary sound effects one must during such an activity. The sun takes the chill out of my bones and I feel ready for action. The guides are crafting rudimentary walking poles from stout lengths of bamboo, their
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A man dries tea leaves harvested in the fields around Pindaya
Sunset over Kyak Nadd Pagodas
tips sharpened at one end. This is a strong indication that the second day’s walking will be tough. Nobody refuses the offered assistance, even those like myself who would normally shun such things as an unnecessary accessory. They turn out to be essential. When the first of our party slips onto their backside I stifle a laugh. When the second person hits the dirt, some of us might have tittered under our breath. But as the members of our party were picked off one by one as if by a hidden sniper, we each knew that it was only a matter of time before it would be our turn to join the muddy red bottom of shame club on this steep and slippery downhill walk. I was the fourth to join the club, and also the eighth and eleventh, if you are counting.
We survive the descent of the mountain intact, and in good spirits compare our wet-bottom trophies before finishing our walk to the blue lake (which as the name suggests is blue. Perhaps ‘lake’ is an exaggeration, as it is more of a pool. But is most definitely blue). What a marvellous place to finish. The lake is that exact shade of blue that it absolutely shouldn’t be; a blue that only appears in computer-edited travel brochures of idyllic beaches or in wickedly dangerous cocktails. It is a shade that no one can describe with any justice, a water so clear you could watch streams of bubbles chasing each other to the surface as they passed through a criss-cross frame of submerged skeleton trees. We couldn’t get too close the lake, be-
At times the trek required wandering through thick vegetation
cause of a tatty barbed-wire fence that kept us mere mortals out of the water. This is a sacred lake and a home to spirits, but it was a stunningly special and peaceful place to visit and a truly magical spot to end our trip. Tired, dirty and happy we return to Pindaya by minibus. Long, hot showers and ice-cold beers help us reflect on our adventure. Discussing our trip, we all agreed that trekking in the Danu Self-administered Zone is an exceptional and exciting addition to the trekking options in Myanmar, and one we would all recommend. For more information on this unique opportunity to discover an as yet relatively unexplored part of Myanmar visit www.danutrails. com.
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Mandalay to Myitkyina by train: unadorned Myanmar at its beautiful best by Connor Macdonald
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sat on the rickety Mandalay-Myitkyina train for almost two whole cycles of the sun, bumping over twisted tracks with the ever-present feeling that I would be involved in the slowest derailment in history. The 643-kilometre (400-mile) journey to the Kachin State capital in Myanmar’s far north was a chaotic 37-hour ordeal, replete with shouting tradesmen, stomping hordes of rifle-toting police and long, sweaty waits at provincial stations. I loved every minute. We left Mandalay station two hours later than scheduled and soon began carving our way through condensed suburbia; living rooms filled with families watching TV, people laying down and fanning themselves in the balmy night, parents preparing their children for bed; all very bucolic. I was dozing when the train stopped at Sagaing
station. Suddenly the night erupted with the sound of authoritative barks, stomping boots and the clunk of ammunition boxes being loaded onto the train. Thirty stone-faced police officers with rifles boarded. For five minutes, the carriage was in chaos as the company of police shuffled around finding their seats, pushing past passengers. “Oh, sorry,” muttered one officer. He barged past me and nudged my face with the butt of his rifle. I kept locking eyes with another young officer sitting opposite me; my attempts at defusing smiles were met with a louder, more concentrated chewing of betel. It was a long, strange night. I was tired though, so I managed to sleep. When I woke, the train had stopped. Looking at Google maps, I confirmed that we had been there all night.
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A pedlar carries vegetables to sell at train station in the early morning of December.
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The police were all less menacing now – in white singlets, their uniforms and helmets hanging by the windows. One bounced a chubby-faced baby on his knee. My first attempt at venturing off the carriage for food was a failure. A packed teashop erupted in laughter when I tried to buy samosas. I retreated to the safety of the carriage, dignity in tatters. Moments later I bought a chicken curry from a woman walking by my window with a kiosk on her head. As I devoured its contents, an officer placed some more chicken into my container, then came a spoon of ngapi, a pungent fermented fish paste, from another – a combination of pity and that trademark Burmese generosity. Over the next 12 hours the train crawled through the dry central plains – peanut farms scattered among palm trees baking under an unrelenting tropospheric white haze. Later, we squeezed through tunnels of jungle cut only by the regular course of the train and rolled into innumerable small town stations where banyan trees taller than five-storey buildings shaded us from the afternoon sun. The train would inexplicably stop at these towns for hours. Spending unsolicited hours at these idyllic country sidings with my new police family, I couldn’t help but appreciate my surroundings in places I otherwise would have missed. It was while sitting under a huge banyan at Maw Luu when a friendly young man wearing a stone cross around his neck struck up a conversation. He was a Baptist pastor from the ‘black area’ of Kachin State returning from a convention in Nay Pyi Taw. The ‘black area’ is a no-go zone for foreigners controlled by the Kachin Independence Army, one of several armed ethnic groups in Myanmar. I asked him about life hundreds of kilometres north of Myitkyina. “People don’t have much money but everyone helps each other out,” he said. “This is people from the village helping me build my new kitchen, almost finished now,” he said, showing a photo of the
View of train station in the early morning of December
skel eten uniforms hunched over the beams with saws in their hands. “Who are the men in uniform?” I asked. Suddenly his face lit up and laugh lines appeared around his eyes. “They are the KIA. You know them?” Spurred by my curiosity he showed photos of him posing with an AK47, a misty alpine landscape in the background. The next pho-
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“Yes! They are my friends. I go to villages, I teach them about the bible. I teach them songs and music. Sometimes the government cuts the roads so no one can bring them rice and goods but I am a pastor so I can walk through, no problem.”
to was of him in his white pastoral robes standing on the steps of his church, Bible in hand. “So you’re in contact with the KIA?” I asked “Yes! They are my friends. I go to villages, I teach them about the Bible. I teach them songs and music. Sometimes the government blocks the roads so no one can bring them rice and goods but I am a pastor so I can walk through, no problem.” He erupt-
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A child tries to get up on the entering train.
People walk through the railway in the foggy morning
ed in laughter. “I need to bring Bibles and computers to the schools.” Pastor Paul* and I talked for a few hours on the wooden seats of the ordinary class carriage. Several times the train hit a kink in the track and the carriage was launched about 20cm (eight inches) into the air, all of us thrown like rag dolls. Even the most solemn senior police officer couldn’t help but laugh. In 2013, a consortium of foreign investors
expressed interest in upgrading the railway from Yangon to Myitkyina. They wanted to start with the line between Mandalay and Myitkyina, reducing travel time to a mere eight hours, and the idea remains in the pipeline. The Mandalay-Myitkyina line opened in 1885, capping off a period of rapid expansion of the national rail network by the British. Since then it appears not much has changed. Steam trains
have been replaced by equally slow diesel locomotives. The tracks are spared much of the attention they need and receive only the most essential maintenance. In the early evening we rattled across fertile plains, flanked by towering blue mountain ridges on both sides, a ceiling of pink denoting the slow close of the day. Countless rows of women, hunched over, laboriously planted seedlings in the mud of recently flooded paddy fields. They always stood, turned and waved as we passed. Men ploughing fields with buffalo, big cheroot cigars clenched between their teeth and deep in concentration, acknowledged our passing with a glance and a puff of smoke. I was standing in the doorway admiring the beauty of landscape when it dawned on me that the trajectory of the train was emblematic of the country as a whole. One day it will be sleek and efficient, devoid of kinks in the track and unsolicited rests at little country towns. Suddenly a man appeared from nowhere selling ice-cold beer from a bag. As I was making the transaction, the carriage jolted and we were both launched into the air almost as if the train was reacting to my ruminations. At that moment I was glad that “necessary developments” were still “in the pipeline”. Early the next morning, two days after leaving Mandalay, we rolled into a mist-shrounded Myitkyina. I had been confused when the man at the ticket booth in Mandalay had warned me that the train ride was “very slow, yes, very slow”, as if I was mistakenly under the impression I was about to board the Myanmar equivalent of a Shinkansen bullet train. Now I understood. I said farewell to the family of upper class carriage two, now back in their police colours. I saw Pastor Paul on the platform and we vowed to keep in touch. Then I checked into a hotel for a well-earned rest. For the return journey, I decided I’d buy a ticket on the 24-hour “express”.
*Pastor Paul is not his real name.
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Finding peace in a still and focussed mind By Tom Lambert
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ai Lun Wun monastery in Bago offers a rich and accessible experience for newcomers to explore meditation, Buddhism and the role of monastic institutions in Myanmar communities. For the fourth time in a minute I shift awkwardly, trying to find a position that would relieve the striking pain that’s running up my spine. My concentration flutters between the tension in my lower back, the blazing heat of the summer sun, and what I’m supposed to be focused on: my breathing. During the Thingyan holiday last April, I discovered that meditation wasn’t as easy as I naively thought it might be. Meditation retreats can be an intimidating experience. Many monasteries in Myanmar are simply unwilling to admit foreigners. Those that do often offer courses with regulations such as fasting from 12pm, to waking at 3am, and even remaining silent for the duration of the course. For those unfamiliar with monastery life, these regulations make the monastic experience unappealing; often, prohibitively so. Moreover, my peers who have ventured out to monasteries have often returned to share strife as strict boundaries are enforced to instill discipline. Some recount that constant introspection led to emotional turmoil. Wai Lun Wun monastery has relaxed some of its rules to encourage those new to its practices as part of a more modern and accepting Buddhist philosophy. Escaping the frenzy of Yangon for the Thingyan holiday, the monastery’s verdant grounds and clean air stood in stark contrast to the aridity of Bago Division and even more so with congested Yangon. Rows of blossoming trees line the road to the monastery entrance where impressive works of carpentry depicting “Hinthas”, the provincial symbol of Bago Region, are presented under an overarching Banyan tree. Novice monks come bounding up to me with fresh batches of jasmine, picked from one of the four gardens. The monastery has stood on these grounds for 185 years, and in 2004 the Venerable Dr Ashin Pyinnyawbhatha become its head monk. “We blend old traditions with new ideas and methods,” he explained, and emphasises that his mobile phone, the cars and the speedy Wi-Fi, enhance the ability of the staff to serve the community and better enable visitors, such as me, to be exposed to Buddhism. It’s 6pm as I’m shown my dorm and the light slides across the dusty grounds, illuminating the dark wood of a shack that is to be my home for
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the week. It’s certainly a modest outfit; just fine for me and Bhikku Gunavera, a monk from India who lives in the Mon State capital, Mawlamyine. Dr Pyinnyawbhatha thought it would be fitting for an experienced, English-speaking monk to guide me through the meditation process. Sympathetic to my inexperience, Bhikkhu Gunavera explained that forcing meditation in any sense would likely be counterproductive. Although certainly encouraged to meditate, I found the lengthy sessions were troublesome, often tying myself up in psychological knots. On his advice, my hours were reduced and I began to experience some improvement in concentration. Instead of rising at 3am, I was rising with
the sun at 5:30am for breakfast – a much more agreeable time that ensured that I wouldn’t resemble a character from Dawn of the Dead for the rest of the day. I was also pleased to find that at Wai Lun Wun, a minority of visitors was eating a small meal about 5pm. Needless to say, I joined them. It’s easy to scoff at the adaptations that Wai Lun Wun has made, claiming that this isn’t “the real thing”. But as I sat down to chat with Dr Pyinnyawbhatha, it became clear that his view was to concentrate on the fundamental precepts while making adaptations to encourage new visitors. He explained that visitors would often respond by being able to meditate for longer and with a higher degree of concentration with these adaptations.
It also became clear that this monastery was serving the communities that depend on it for vital services. Community With the growth of “engaged Buddhism” (a socially and environmentally aware iteration of the religion) in mind, I saw this institution as a clear example of how the trust between community and monastery has been leveraged to fill the significant gap left by the government. “We receive neither government nor NGO funding. Individual donors keep us going as our work is essential for the communities we serve,” Dr Pyinnyawbhatha said. And it certainly is just that – essential. The monastery’s vast resources are in sharp
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contrast with Kyauk Tan: the adjacent village with little in the way of amenities, an hour from the nearest city, Bago. Each Saturday, the purpose-built clinic treats hundreds of villagers and the monastery’s ambulance takes those needing further attention to hospitals in Bago or Yangon. Attendance at the school has increased by 150 percent during the past decade, providing free education for many of the poorest families in the area. The monastery’s role in the community is symptomatic of the crippling underfunding of social services that has resulted in established religious institutions shouldering community needs. Budget allocations to health, education and social welfare have been between 8-9 percent of
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total government spending since 2012-13, which is low in international terms. The result is that essential services are often provided by third parties, usually with religious affiliations: a truth seldom admitted by the governing authorities. “We appreciate our ecosystem,” Dr Pyinnyawbhatha said. The monastery leadership discourages waste and has co-ordinated growing its own food organically on site. The design of the monastery ensures that anyone in its compound is never more than twenty yards from the nearest recycling bin. In the mornings more than a hundred young students trawl through the site in competition, collecting as much discarded rubbish they can find, recycling whatever possible and disposing of the rest.
Dr Pyinnyawbhatha’s embrace of modernity may initially seem to diverge from the conventional image of a monk’s austere existence, but under closer scrutiny, the necessity and benefits to society of his modernisation are apparent. As I try to sit upright, embracing stillness of mind and body and feeling the recurring distractions of discomfort crawling into my thoughts, I also realise its benefit as a teaching tool for the inquisitive visitor. Wai Lun Wun cannot be recommended enough. For those who are deterred by the rigid discipline of some monastic regulations in Myanmar, this monastery also offers a more palatable option for seeking the soothing comfor t of a still and focussed mind.
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DJ Yu Bringing passion to the nightlife scene
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usic bursts from the entrance of the Sky Bistro at the top of Sakura Tower. Past the smokers congregated in the corridor and the two young women stamping wrists at the entrance, the entrance to Sky Bistro offers a view of the downtown Yangon skyline pierced by the spires of golden pagodas and coloured by neon lighting beyond the images of party guests reflected in its windows like bodies floating in the night. Inside, guests mingle in small groups. Some enjoy the music; others order drinks from the bar and watch the dancing crowd. A woman dressed in black stands behind the DJ booth, with her hair pushed behind her ears by a large pair of headphones. She bobs along with the music. Yu Kyaw Tin, also known as DJ Yu, was first exposed to mixing music while studying in Britain for a bachelor’s
degree in business management. She left for Britain after high school and returned to Myanmar in September 2013. “I think I made the right decision,” Yu said in an interview, referring to her decision to come home when the economic and political transition was underway. Being a woman DJ in Myanmar has its advantages, Yu said. “There are not many female DJs around who play the same of style of music as mine,” she said. “I learnt the basics of mixing about two years ago and my style of music widened over the years. You are less exposed to a variety of music here and this is why you need to give yourself more time to find your music and keep yourself updated.” As the beat grows louder, the crowd thickens. A steady stream of guests joins the gyrating crowd on the dance floor, each exploring their response to the pulsing beat.
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It’s amazing how much music can inspire people to feel and dance. It’s not a bad feeling to be on the other side of the booth now and you get to make the crowd smile.
“It’s amazing how much music can inspire people to feel and dance. It’s not a bad feeling to be on the other side of the booth now and get to make the crowd smile,” said Yu. One of her first public performances in Yangon was at the TS.1 Gallery launch after-party at Gekko Bar in April 2014. Yu says one event was a turning point in her career as a professional DJ. It was a rooftop party at the Alfa Hotel in December 2014 and many of the guests ran bars. They were impressed by her mix and approached her to play at their venues. “I have been quite lucky with my bookings ever since then,” she said. “A lot of doors opened up for me.” Her bookings have risen from six in 2014 to more than 24 last year. Yu’s style is a mix of different genres, from minimal, Nu disco and techno to deep house, tech house and progressive house. “I would like to become a much more advanced DJ on stage and learn to use other technical tools when I am mixing,” she said. “I prepare my sets according the event, the location and the crowd. It depends on the kind of event at which I am performing. But I always aim to uplift the vibe in the room during my sets and bring the dancer out in everyone.” Yu’s DJ career is facing some obstacles, including the recent bar curfew and a relatively small number of bars and clubs in which to perform. ”We are lacking a variety of venues,” Yu said. “The venues here are limited in terms of space and capacity and the variety of events hosted. I would like to think the scene is moving forward, and the au-
dience definitely seems to have an open mind. But the current social scene seems to have taken a step back because of the restrictions.” The curfew in Yangon that has bars and clubs shutting their doors at 11pm has had an impact on bookings. “I’ve been getting fewer gigs since the curfew but I am still very happy with the number times I play out,” she said. “I am getting more bookings for corporate events lately. I think overall it [the curfew] just somewhat killed the vibe of Yangon’s nightlife. I doubt the curfew will be lifted anytime soon.” Her biggest challenge, though, is juggling her career as a DJ and her full-time job as marketing manager for PUN+Projects. “I have some evenings during the week to play around on my decks at home, but I would like to devote more time to it,” Yu said. “It can consume a lot of your time because you are always trying to learn more. I would eventually like to learn to produce but I do not have enough time at the moment.” Yu is undaunted by the challenges she faces. Her drive to develop her style and ability stems from a love of music that inspires her to keep moving forward and contribute to change and growth in Yangon’s nightlife scene. “I think being a DJ is easy as long as you have the passion and the ear for it,” Yu said. “I don’t think I need a reason or motivation to be a DJ; it’s self-motivated,” she said, adding that the nightlife scene needs more women DJ with real passion. “Most DJs want to be in the scene for the popularity rather than the love.”
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Embassies in Myanmar The Embassy of Australia
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Fax:..........................................................................549643
The Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
The Embassy of Brazil
The Embassy of Brunei Darussalam 17, Kanbawza Yeik Thar St., BHN.
The Embassy of the Republic of Italy
The Embassy of Japan
jembassy@baganmail.net.mm
The Embassy of the Republic of
Federation
The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
The Embassy of the Republic Serbia 114-A, Inya Rd., KMYT.
The Embassy of the Republic of Singapore
238, Dhama Zedi Rd., BHN.
Ph:..........................................................526985, 503978
Korea
Fax:...........................................................................512854
97, University Avenue Rd., BHN.
Fax:......................................................................... 559002
bruneiemb@bruneiemb.com.mm
Ph:...................................... 515190, 524148, 527142~44
singemb-ygn@sgmsa.gov.sg
The Royal Embassy of Cambodia 25(3B/4B), New University Avenue Rd., BHN.
Fax:...........................................................................513286 myanmar@mofa.go.kr
Ph:.............................................................................559001
The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Ph:......................................................... 549609, 540964
The Embassy of Kuwait
Fax:...........................................................................541462
62-B, Shwe Taung Gyar St., BHN.
Ph:.............................................................................. 511305
recyangon@myanmar.com.mm
Ph:....................................................................01-2305942
Fax:...........................................................................514897
kwempygn@gmail.com
vnembmyr@cybertech.net.mm
1, Pyi Htaung Su Yeikthar St., DGN.
Democratic Republic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Ph:......................................................224097, 221280~81
A-1, Taw Win St., Diplomatic Qtr, Pyay (West)
34, Taw Win St., Pyay (West) Ward, DGN.
Fax:........................................................................... 227019
Ward, DGN.
Ph:............................................................................. 222812
Ph:............................................................................ 222482
Fax:...........................................................................221509
Fax:.......................................................................... 227446
srilankaemb@myanmar.com.mm, embsrilanka@
inthasone_thi@yahoo.com
The Embassy of Malaysia
yangon.net.mm
Ph:.................................................................... 222886~87 Fax:..........................................................................222865
82, Pyi Htaung Su Yeikthar St., Pyay (West) Ward,
130-B, Than Lwin St., BHN.
egyptembassy86@gmail.com
DGN.
Ph:................................ 539901, 504068, 095006972
Ph:...........................................................................................
smtmhr@myanmar.com.mm, smtmhr@mptmail.
102, Pyi Htaung Su Yeikthar St., Pyay (East) Ward,
...... 220230, 220251, 218479, 229865, 220248~49
net.mm
DGN.
Fax:...........................................................................221840
The Embassy of Switzerland
Ph:............ 212178, 212523, 212528, 212532, 212530
mwyangon@kln.gov.my
11, Khapaung St., 5½Mile, Pyay Rd., KMYT.
The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
81, Pyi Htaung Su Yeikthar St., DGN.
The Embassy of France
The Embassy of the Lao People’s
Fax:............................................................................212527
The Embassy of Nepal
ambafrance.rangoun@diplomatie.gouv.fr
16, Nat Mauk Yeikthar St., TMWE.
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
9, Bogyoke Aung San Museum St., Bo Cho Ward (2), BHN.
Bldg-72, Than Lwin Rd., BHN.
The Embassy of the Democratic
The Embassy of Sweden
Ph:............................................................534754, 512873 Fax:..........................................................534754, 512873
Ph:.........................................545880, 557168, 545884
The Embassy of the Royal Thai
Fax:......................................................................... 549803
94, Pyay Rd., DGN.
nepemb@mptmail.net.mm
Ph:......................... 226721, 226728, 226824, 222784
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic
Fax:.............................................................................221713
The Embassy of the Republic of
Ph:..................................................................... 548951~53
of Pakistan
Fax:......................................................................... 548899
A-4, Pyay Rd., Diplomatic Qtr, Pyay (West) Ward,
Turkey
info@rangun.diplo.de
DGN.
19-A/B, Kan Yeik Thar St., MYGN.
Ph:............................................................................. 222881
Ph:...........................................................662992, 661365
545-547, Merchant St., KTDA.
Fax:.............................................................................221147
Fax:.........................................................662992, 661365
Ph:............................................ 391219, 388412, 243972
pakembyangon@gmail.com
The Embassy of Her Britannic
Philippines
80, Strand Rd., KTDA.
The Embassy of the Republic of India
Fax:.........................................................254086, 388414 indiaembassy@mptmail.net.mm
The Embassy of the Republic of
The Embassy of the Republic of the
Majesty
50, Saya San Rd., Sasana Yeikthar Ward, BHN.
Ph:........................... 370863~65, 370867, 380321~22
Ph:..................................................................... 558149~53
Fax:......................................................................... 370866
100, Pyi Htaung Su Yeikthar St., Pyay (East) Ward,
Fax:...........................................................................558154
britishembassy.ragoon@fco.gov.uk
DGN.
p.e.yangon@gmail.com
Indonesia
The Embassy of the United States of
Ph:........................................ 254465, 254469, 229750
America
Fax:..........................................................................254468
110, University Avenue, KMYT.
info@KBRIyangon.org
Ph:..........................................................536509, 535756 Fax:............................................................................511069
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MYANMAR EMBASSIES ABROAD Australia
France
Nepal
22, Arkana Street, Australia., Yarralumla,
No. 60, Rue De Courcelles, 75008-Paris, France.
Chakupat, Patan Gate, Lalitpur P.O.Box 2437
Canberra, A.C.T 2600 , Australia.
Ph:...................................................... (33) 01 56 88 15 90
Ph:..........................+97-1-552-17-88 +97-1-552-34-02
Ph:...........................................................2733811,2733751
Fax:.....................................................(33) 01 45 62 13 30
Fax:....................................................... (+977-1) 5523402
Fax:........................................................................2734357
me-paris@wanadoo.fr
Germany
emb@myanmar.wlink.com.np
Manirat@dynamite.com.au, mecanberra@ bigpond.com
Zimmer Str 56, 10117 Berlin Mitte, Germany.
Pakistan
Ph:.....................................................(0049 30) 206 1570
No. 201 St N0 10, SECTOR E-7, Islamabad.
132, Sathorn Nua Road, Bangkok 10500
Fax:................................................ (0049 30) 206 15720
Ph:..............................(0092) (51) 282 2460, 282 8828
Ph:..................(662) 233-2237, 234-4698, 233-7250,
emb.my.berlin@t-online.de
Fax:.................................................. (0092) (51) 282 8819
Bangkok
234-0320, 637-9406
India
Fax:.......................................................... (662) 236-6898
3/50 F, Nyayamarg, Chanakyapuri New Delhi
mebkk@asianet.co.th
110021.
Philippines
Ph:.............(009111) 6889007, 6889008, 26889007
4th Floor, XANLAND Centre, 152, Amorsolo
No.3, Block - Nel(l), Road No.84, Gulshan - 2,
Fax:........................................................(009111) 6877942
Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, Manila,
Dhaka.
myandeli@nda.vsnl.net.in
Philippines.
Bangladesh
meisb@isb.comsats.net.pk www.myanmar-embassy-islamabad.net
Ph:............ (88-02) 988 8903, 989 6331, 989 6298,
Indonesia
......................................................... 989 6373, 988 9215
109, Jl. Hajiagus Salim, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat.
Fax:..................................................... (0063-2) 817-5895
Fax:......................................................(88-02) 88 23 740
Ph:.........................................(62 21) 314 0440, 327 684
embmyanmnl@mindgate.net
mynembdk@siriusbroadband.com, mynembdk@
Fax:............................................................(62 21) 327 204
memnl@mindgate.net
siriusbb.com
myanmar@cbn.net.id
No.29, Boulevard du Regent, 1000 Brussels.
26 Hayarkon, Tel-Aviv 68011.
Ph:.................................................. (007) (095) 291 05 34
Ph:...........................................................(0032) 2513 4175
Ph:.......................................+972-3-517 0760, 517 0761
Fax:................................................(007) (095) 956 31 86
Fax:.........................................................(0032) 2513 1475
Fax:........................................................ (972) (3) 517 1440
Singapore
teltaman@aquanet.co.il
15, St Martin’s Drive, Singapore 257996.
Belgium
Brazil
Israel
Ph:................................... (0063-2) 817-2373, 812-9587
Russia
41. Ul. B. Nikitskaya (Gertsena), Moscow, Russia.
SHIS QL 08, Conjunto 14, Casa 05, Lago Sul,
Italy
71620-245 Brasilia-DF.
Via Vincenzo Belini, No.20, Interno 1, 00198,
Fax:..........................................................(0065) 7356236
Ph:................. 00-55-61-2483747, 00-55-61-3643145
Rome, Italy.
ambassador@mesingapore.org.sg
Fax:.....................................................00-55-61-3642747
Ph:.................................... (+39-6) 854-9374, 841-6863
www.mesingapore.org.sg
mebrsl@brnet.com.br
Fax:............................................................(+39-6) 841-167
South Africa
www.mebrsl.freeservers.com
meroma@tiscalinet.it
319 Murray St., Brooklyn, Pretoria, P.O. Box 12121,
No.14, lot 2185/46292 Simpang 212 Jalan
8-26, 4-Chome, Kita-Shinagawa , Shinagawa-Ku,
Ph:...........................27-12-460 6544, 27-12-460 4333
Kampong Rimbe, Gadong 3385.
Tokyo 140-0001.
Fax:.......................................................... 27-12-346 0746
Ph:............................ (673-2) 450506, (673-2) 450507
Ph:................................ (81) (03) 3441-9291, 3441-9292,
mepta@myanemb-sa.net
Fax:............................................................ (673-2) 451008
3441-9293,3441-9294, 3441-9029, 3441-9044
Sri Lanka
myanmar@brunet.bn
Fax:.................................................... (81) (03) 3447-7394
No.108, Barnes Place, Colombo 7.
contact@myanmar-embassy-tokyo.net
Ph:................................................. (94) (1) 681197, 672197
181, Preah Norodon Boulevard, Boeung Keng
met@twics.con
Fax:...............................................................(94) (1) 681196
Kang 1, Khan Chamcarmon.
www.myanmar-embassy-tokyo.net
Korea
mecmb@itmin.com, mmembcmb@eureka.lk
Ph:........................................... (855-23) 213663, 213664 Fax:.......................................................(855-23) 2136665
723-1, 724-1, HANNAM-DONG , YONGSAMN-KU,
19A, Charles St, London W1J 5DX, United
m.e.phnompenh@bigpond.com.kh
SEOUL, 140-210.
Kingdom.
Ph:.................. (82-2) 792-3341, 796-9858, 796-7814
Ph:......... 020 7629 6966, 020 7499 8841, 020 7629
The Sandringham Building, 85 Range Road,
Fax:..........................................................(82-2) 796-5570
4486
Suite 902-903, Ontario KIN 8J6.
myanmar@kotis.net, myanmare@ppp.kornet.net.
Fax:........................................................... 020 7629 4169
Brunei
Cambodia
Canada
Japan
Ph:........................................................... (0065) 7350209
Queenswood 0121, South Africa.
United Kingdom
Ph:.............................................................. (613) 232-6434
Laos
Fax:............................................................ (613) 232-6435
Ban Thong Kang, P.O. Box No. 11, Sok Palaung,
United States of America
mofa.aung@mptmail.net.mm
P.O. Box No.11.
2300 S Street, NW, Washington DC 20008,
Ph:..............................................(856) (21) 314910, 314911
United States.
No. 6, Dong Zhi Men Wai Street, Chao Yang
Fax:.......................................................... (856) (21) 314913
Ph:... (202) 332-3344, (202)332-4350, (202)332-4352
District, Beijing, 100600.
mev@loxinfo.co.th, mevlao@laotel.com
Fax:.............................................................(202) 332-4351
China
Melondon@btconnect.com
Ph:......................................0086-10-6532-0351 ext: 24
Malaysia
Fax:.................................................0086-10-6532-0408
No.8(C), Jalan Ampang Hillir, 55000.
info@myanmarembassy.com
Ph:............... (603) 4251 5595, 42514455, 4251 6355
Vietnam
www.myanmarembassy.com
Fax:................................... (603) 4251 3855, 4251 3535
A-3 (101-104), Vanphuc Diplomatic Quarters, Kim
mekl@tm.net.my
MA St.
Egypt
mewdcusa@gmail.com, mewdcusa@yahoo.com www.mewashingtondc.com
No. 24, Mohamed Mazhar St., Zamalek, Cairo
Ph:......................................(84-4) 845 3369, 823 2056
11211.
Fax:..........................................................(84-4) 845 2404
Ph:..................... (202) 736 2644, 735 4176, 735 1568
mevhan@fpt.vn
Fax:........................................................... (202) 736 6793 embassy-myanmar@access.com.eg
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CONSULATES
ORGANIZATION MYANMAR TOURISM FEDERATION (MTF)
Myanmar Tourism Transportation Association (MTTA)
Consulate of the People’s Republic
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd., Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
56, Main Rd., South Lanmadaw Quater, Sittwe,
Ph:................................................................01-8551012~13
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Rakhine
Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
Ph:......................... 043-21126, 043-21969, 043-22241
Myanmar Hoteliers Association (MHA) 3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
Myanmar Souvenir Shops
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Association (MSEA)
Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
355, Ground Flr., U Wisara Rd., SCHG.
Union of Myanmar Travel Association (UMTA)
Ph:...................................................502923, 095195464
Myanmar Domestic Tour Operators
29, Rm-802, 7th Flr., Min Yè Kyaw Swar St., LMDW.
Association (MDTOA)
Ph:................................. 214941, 214945, 09 73050761
422/424, Shwe Bon Thar St., Upper Block, PBDN.
Myanmar Tourism Marketing (MTM) 204, Rm-4(B), Bo Myat Tun St., Nilar Condo, PZDG.
Ph:.......................................09 5029602, 09 5029603
Myanmar Restaurants Association (MRA)
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd., Thuwunna Junction, TGGN. Ph:......................................................................01-8551014
Myanmar Hospitality Professionals Association (MHPA)
3(A), Cor of Thanthumar Rd. & Waizayantar Rd.,
of Bangladesh
Fax:...................................................................043-23968
Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China
35th St., Bet: 65th St. & 66th St., (Yadanar Lane), CATZ. Ph:.............................02-34457, 02-34458, 02-35937 Fax:......................................................................02-35944
Ph:..................................241863, 380141, 09 73251422
Consulate General of the Republic
General Services Association
Ta-1/25, 65th St., Corner of Ngu War St., Myothit,
Myanmar Tourist Healthcare and (MTHGSA)
330, Ground Flr., Ahlone Rd., Yangon Int’l Hotel, DGN. Ph:..................................................................... 218445~46
Myanmar Tourist Guides Association (MTGA)
42/44, Bo Soon Pat St., Lower Block, PBDN. Ph:....................... 256278, 09 5071608, 09 51272914
Myanmar Tourism Human Resources
Thuwunna Junction, TGGN.
Development Association (MTHRDA)
Ph:......................................... 01-8551256, 0931544603
267, 3rd Flr, Pyay Rd., SCHG.
of India CMTZ
Ph:.. 02-81019, 02-80355, 02-80366, 09 2007559 Fax:..................................................................... 02-80366
The Consulate of Sweden 130-B, Than Lwin Rd., BHN.
Ph:.................... 01-504068, 01-539901, 09 5006972
The Honorary Consulate of Switzerland
79/80, Bahosi Housing, Wardan St., LMDW. Ph:.........................................................................01-211536 Fax:............................................................................ 211540
Ph:.......................................................... 523200, 523623
UN AGENCIES Food & Agriculture Organization
United Nations High Commissioner
United Nations Programme on HIV/
Seed Production Centre (MAS), Insein Rd.,
287, Pyay Rd., SCHG.
137/1, Than Lwin St., KMYT.
Gyogone, P.O Box-101, ISN.
Ph:......................................... 524022, 524024, 524025
Ph:..........................................................538087, 538938
Ph:......................................................................641672~73
Fax:........................................................................... 524031
Fax:...........................................................................503160
Fax:............................................................................641561
myaya@unhcr.org
www.unaids.org
United Nations Office of the Resident
World Food Programme (WFP)
(FAO)
FAO-MMR@fao.org
International Labour Organization (ILO)
for Refugees (UNHCR)
& Humanitarian Coordinator of the
United Nations System’s Operational
AIDS (UNAIDS)
5, Kanbawza St., Shwe Taung Gyar (2) Ward, BHN.
1, Kanbe’ St., Cor of Kaba Aye Pagoda St., YKN.
Activities (UNRC)
Ph:.................................................................... 566538~39
6, Natmuak Rd., TMWE.
Fax:..................................................................01-2305976
Fax:......................................................................... 566538
Ph:................................................... 542910~19 (10 Lines)
wfp.yangon@wfp.org
yangon@ilo.org
Fax:......................................................... 292739, 544531
www.ilo.org/yangon
Ph:..............................................................01-2305971~76
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations Office on Drugs and
23-A, Inya Myaing St., Shwe Taung Gyar (2) Ward,
11-A, Malikha St., MYGN.
Fax:..................................................................650408~09
BHN.
Ph:.. 666903, 660556, 660538, 660398, 664539
lawin@searo.who.int
Ph:............................................................01-2305960~69
Fax:...........................................................................651334
www.whomyanmar.org
Fax:................................................................. 01-2305965
fo.myanmar@unodc.org
unicefyangon@unicef.org
www.unodc.org/myanmar
(UNICEF)
www.unicef.org/myanmar
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Crime (UNODC)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
6, Natmauk Rd., TMWE.
6, Natmauk Rd., BHN.
Ph:.................. 546309 (Direct), 542910~19 (10 Lines)
Ph:................................................... 542910~19 (10 Lines)
........................................................................ (C/O – UNDP)
Fax: ........................................................ 545634, 544531
Fax:.......................................546029 544436, 545634
registry.mm@undp.org
............................................................544531 (C/O-UNDP) myanmar.office@unfpa.org www.myanmar.unfpa.org
2, Pyay Rd., 7 Mile, MYGN. Ph:....................................................................650405~06
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79 Living Hotel 79th Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 32277, 09 444013179, Fax: 30601 79livinghotel@gmail.com www.79livinghotel.com Aung Gyi Soe Hotel 42nd Street, Between of 66th & 67th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 77886, 77536 Fax: 77536 aunggyisoehotel@gmail.com Ayarwaddy River View Hotel Strand Road, Between of 22nd & 23rd Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 64946, 64947, 72373 Fax: 66773 ayarwaddyriverhotel@gmail.com www.ayarwaddyriverhotel.net City Grand Hotel 66th Street, Between of Theik Pan & 43rd Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62571, 77458, 09 402646030, 011 202121 hotelcitygrand@gmail.com Dream Hotel 152, 27th Street, Between of 80th & 81st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 60470, 60471, 39921, 39922 Fax: 35656 hoteldreammandalay@gmail.com www.dreamhotel@mandalay. net.mm East Mandalay Hotel 62nd Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74009, 09 33294453 eastmandalayhotel@gmail.com www.facebook.com/eastmandalayhotel Fortune Hotel 182, 31st Street, Between of 82nd & 83rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35821, 66548 fortunehotel1995@gmail.com Golden Bagan 31st Street, Between of 76th & 77th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 36387677, 09 36387899 Golden City Crown Hotel 1/F, 30th Street, Between of 70th & 71st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 61516, 24410, 24411 Fax: 61516 citycrownmdy@mandalay.net. mm www.facebook.com/goldencitycrown Golden City Light 50, 77th Street, Between of 34th & 35th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 60029, 011 202500 goldencitylight@gmail.com www.goldencitylighthotel.com
Golden Dream Hotel 255, 30th Street, Between of 89th & 90th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 60911, 09 259065955, 09 402572311 info@goldendreamhotel.com www.goldendreamhotel.com Golden Mandalay Hotel Corner of 19th & 60th Street, Nan Shae, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 61488, 09 402518896 shwemdy1974@gmail.com Good Time Hotel 96/F, Yadanabon Street, Ahneiktaw Quarter, Nanshae, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 61123, 61221, 09 259034012 goodtimehotel.mdy@gmail.com www.goodtimehotel.com Hotel 76 434, 76th Street, Between of 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 67083, 67086, 67087 Fax: 67087 saleshotel76mdy@gmail.com www.hotel76mandalay.com Hotel 78 902, Corner of 78th Street & Theik Pan Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 76608, 76609, 76536 Fax: 76536 thehotel78.reservation@gmail. com www.thehotel78.com Hotel A-1 566, Corner of 32nd & 83rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 67401, 67402, 35736, 23654 Fax: 23654 info@hotela1mandalay.com www.hotela1mandalay.com Hotel Emperor 74th Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 68743, 74393 Fax: 72432 thehotelemperor@gmail.com Hotel Mahar 171, 24th Street, Between of 83rd & 84th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 22854, 011201534 hotelmahar.mdy@gmail.com www.hotelmahar.com Hotel Moethee 77th Street, Between of 36th & 37th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 67211, 67212, 09 448005277 Fax: 67211 hotel@moethee.com www.moethee.com Hotel Queen 456, 81st Street, 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 39805, 65586, 68932, 71562, 71891 Fax: 66856 hotelqueenmandalay@gmail. com www.hotelqueenmandalay.com
Hotel Rich Queen | Block (514/3), Anterior (45), Between of 26th & 27th Street, Kan Kaut Quarter, Chan Aye Tharzan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar. Tel: (02) 74667. (011) 203477, (09) 256125588 richqueen59@gmail.com www.hotelrichqueen59.com Hotel Sahara 414/A, 80th Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 67313, 09 250199965 hotelsahara.mandalay@gmail.com www.hotelsahara@myanmar. com.mm Hotel Shwe Pyi Thar B-8, Pyin Oo Lwin Road, Between of 31st & 32nd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74401~9, 09 2039910 Fax: 74410 info@hotelshwepyithar.com www.hotelshwepyithar.com Hotel United 60, Corner of 19th & 64th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan, Mandalay. Tel: 74176, 72396, 61358 hotelunitedmdy@gmail.com www.hotelunitedmandalay.com Hotel Wonderland Shwe Hnin Si Road, Between of 68th & 69th Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi, Mandalay. Tel: 77100, 78525 wonderland@mandalay.net.mm www.hotels-wonderland.com Hotel Yadanarbon 125, 31st Street, Between of 76th & 77th Street., Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Myanmar. Tel: 71058, 71999, 74035, 64633 Fax: 30199 hotelyadanarbon@gmail.com www.hotelyadanarbon.com Hu Kaung Hotel 170, Corner of 31st & 82nd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 34286, 34299, 66536, 22741 Fax: 66536 Hukaung Hotel@gmail.com
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Royal Pearl Hotel | No.196, 29th Road, Between of 80th & 81st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar. Tel: +(02)65249, 67409, (011)202652 pearlhotelmandalay@gmail.com www.royalpearlhotelmdy.com Rising Venus Hotel Ta-7, Nya-11, Between of 70th & 71st Street, Between of Yuzana & Shwe Hnin Si Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62060, 62061, 77990 Fax: 77990 risingvenushotel@gmail.com www.risingvenushotel.com Royal Naung Yoe Hotel 34th Street, Between of 64th & 65th Street., Pyi Gyi Myat Shin Quarter, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Myanmar. Tel: 74647, 74054, 68849 Royal Yadanarbon Hotel 36, 89th Street, Between of 22nd & 23rd Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 66831, 67431, 73923 royalyadanarbon@gmail.com www.royalyadanarbonhotel.com San Eain Hotel Corner of 30th & 78th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35231 Fax: 35231 saneainhotel2014@gmail.com Shwe Ingyinn Hotel Corner of 30th & 78th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 73468, 73469, 09 797767261 shweingyinnhotel@gmail.com Shwe Phyu Hotel 3(10), 64th Street, Between of 39th & 40th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 420329311, 09 20329322 Fax: 71367 shwephyuhotel@gmail.com www.shwephyuhotel.com.mm Shwe Ye’ Mon Hotel Ma-55/19-20, 53rd Street, Between of 38th & 39th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 77162, 77542, 09 250533331, 09 250533339 shweyemonhotel@gmail.com www.shweyemonhotel.com Smart Hotel 167, 28th Street, Between of 76th & 77th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 32682, 32552 Fax: 32552 smarthotelmyanmar@gmail.com Tain Phyu Hotel 57, Corner of 29th & 73rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 32772, 32773, 65518 Fax: 33212 tainphyu@mandalay.net.mm Taw Win Myanmar Hotel 488, 80th Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35055, 35909, 09 33155969 tawwinmyanmarhotel@gmail. com www.tawwinmyanmar.com
Tiger One Hotel 96, 31st Street, Between of 76th & 77th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74467, 69968, 74239 reservation@tigeronehotel.com www.tigeronehotel.com Triumph Hotel 1, 26th Street, Between of 55th & 56th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 61145~8 Fax: 61148 reservation@triumph-hotels.com www.triumph-hotels.com Universe Hotel 215, 83rd Street, Between of 27th & 28th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 33245, 33246, 33247, 66532 Fax: 66532 universehotelmdy@gmail.com Victoria Hotel 176, 31st Street, Between of 82nd & 83rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 31588, 66524 Yadanar Theingi Hotel 189, 83rd Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35096, 36968, 73284 yadanartheingihotel@gmail.com www.yadanartheingihotel.com Yuan Sheng Hotel 183, 35th Street, Between of 77th & 78th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 67404, 67405, 67407 Fax: 67406 sale.yuanshenghotel@gmail.com Zegyo Hotel & Tourism Training Centre 84th Street, Between of 27th & 28th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 39991, 39992, 66805, 71581 mhttc2005@gmail.com
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Mingalar Par Pyay 149, Bogyoke Street, Ywar Be’ Ward, Infront of KBZ Bank No.(2), Pyay. Tel: 09 5370395
PYIN OO LWIN
Hsaung Thazin Hotel Quarter-6, Myittar Street, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 21127, 23400, 23299, 09 402514302 thuzar.145@gmail.com www.hsaungthazinhotel.com Nan Taw Win Hotel 53, Corner of Kan Taw Lay & Circular Road, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 22943, 28199, 09 33208299, 09 33208399, 09 2005544 Pann Cherry Hotel Quarter-6, Cherry Street, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 28301, 09 257862831, 09 796568956 pancherrymaymyo@gmail.com www.pancherryhotel.com Royal Reward Resort Hotel 36, Circular Road, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 28271, 28272, 22645 royalrewardresorthotel@gmail. com www.royalrewardresorthotel.com Shwe Eain Nann Hotel 180, Quarter-6, Cherry Street, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 28233, 28244, 09 421041363 Fax: 28233 shweeainnann@princessirra.com www.princessirra.com Tiger Hotel 13/243, Sandar Road, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 21980, 09 2044344, 09 402638290 Fax: 011200087 tigerhotel.pyinoolwin@gmail.com www.tigerhotelpol.com
TAUNGOO
Global Grace Taungoo Hotel 20, Corner of Mingalar Road & Setshin Road, Near Mile Dar Field, Taungoo. Tel: 054-23414, 26167~68, 23764 hotelggtaungoo@gmail.com www.globalgracetaungoohotel. com
TAUNGGYI
Golden Dream Hotel 5, Yone Gyi Street, Win Quarter, Nyaung Shwe. Tel: 209764, 209598 goldendreamhotel-inlay@gmail. com www.goldendreamhotel-inlay.com Hotel Amazing Naung Shwe Yone Gyi Street, Nyaung Shwe. Tel: 209477, 209478 Fax: 209429 naungshwe@amazing hotel.com www.amazing hotel.com Hotel Heart Hom 9(A), Bogyoke Aung San Street, Pyi Taw Thar Quarter, Taunggyi. Tel: 2122604, 09 49351009 Fax: 2122604 Nant Khone Hotel 258, Mya Kan Thar Street, Naung Shwe Haw Khone, Taunggyi. Tel: 2121397, 2124308, 09 200652 Than Lwin Hotel 289, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Myoh Ma Quarter, Taunggyi. Tel: 2122175
SHAN
Global Grace Pindaya Hotel 25, Shwe Oo Min Pagoda Road, Singoung Quarter, Pindaya Township, Shan State. Tel: 09 49100088, 09 8622447, 081-66189 hotelggpindaya@gmail.com globalgracehotelpindaya.com
Inn YANGON
Elephant Inn 41-E, Thar Waddy Street, Sayar San Ward, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 549124, 540805 Mother Land Inn 433, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 291343, 290348, 09 5185395, 09 5053206, 09 401534080 motherlandinn2@gmail.com www.myanmarmotherlandinn.com Nice Inn 35/Kha, Phoe Sein Street, Near of Holiday Restaurant, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 542986, 09 8622662
MANDALAY
Mandalay Kandawgyi Inn 174(B), East Lakesides of Kandawgyi, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 59819, 59990, 09 5058438, 09 400035880 mandalaykandawgyiinn7@ gmail.com Yadanar Yoma Inn 41st Street, Between of 78th & 79th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 76612, 76613, 76611 Fax: 76613 yadanaryomainn@gmail.com www.yadanaryomainn.com
TAUNGGYI
Mingalar Inn 24, Phaung Daw Pyan Road, Mingalar Quarter, Nyaung Shwe(Inle). Tel: 209198, 209899, 09 5216278, 09 36047627 mingalarinn@gmail.com www.mingalarinn.blogspot.com
The Green Valley Inn 34, Phaung Daw Pyan Road, Mingalar Quarter, Nyaung Shwe Township(Inle). Tel: 09 428371753, 09 428358611 thegreenvalleyinn@gmail.com
Motel YANGON
Mothers Home Motel F-10, May Kha Housing, Lay Daunt Kan Road, Thingangyun Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-8551241, 09 5168743, 09 5506515 mothershomemotel@gmail.com
TAUNGGYI
Inle Star Motel 49, Canal Road, Near Tai Nan Bridge, Win Quarter (2), Nyaung Shwe. Tel: 209745, 09 36167590 info@inlestar.com www.inlestarhotel.com Taunggyi Golden Win Motel 3, Thanlwin Road, Kanshae Quarter, Near Middle BOC, Taunggyi. Tel: 200503, 201002 goldenwin.motel@gmail.com
Services Apartment YANGON
Eco Apartment Tower-E, 1st Floor, Pearl Condo, Kaba Aye Pagoda, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 557488, 557448 Ext-880 rsvn.ecoapartment@gmail.com Lanmadaw Plaza Hotel Residences Corner of Mahabandoola Road & Lanmadaw street, Near Than Zay, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 379925 rsvn.ecoapartment@gmail.com SOHO Diamond Diamond Tower, 1, 3, 5, Pyay Road & Nar nat taw Road, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 523921~25 Ext-777, 888 sohodiamond135@gmail.com Sule Shangrila 150, 150-A, Kan Yeik Thar Street, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon. Tel: 394469 Fax: 394496 residences.slry@shangri-la.com www.shangri-la.com
airline YANGON
Air India 75, Shwe Bon Thar Street, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 253598, 254758, 371864
No. 339, 08-02 Sakura Tower, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 255260 Fax: +951 255305 marketing@maiair.com www.maiair.com
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Art & Craft YANGON
Bagan East Wing, Bogyoke Aung San Market, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 421153549 Erawati Bhandagara Building-B, Sayar San Palaza, Sayar San Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 420038416, 09 49285380 erawatibhandagara@gmail.com Gallery 65 Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Township, Yangon. Tel: 246317 Hla Yin Kyay 121-E, Than Lwin Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 260720752 hlayinkyay.thinthin@gmail.com Yangon Heritage Trust 22/24, Pansoedan Road,1st Floor, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 240544, 09 73055187
MANDALAY
Aung Nan Myanmar (Handicrafts) 97,98,99, Sagaing-Mandalay Road, Pyi Taw Thar Ward, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 70145, 09 33304689 aungnan766@gmail.com www.aungnan.com Htan Yeik Nyo (Art Show Room) Corner of 23rd & 56th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2020900, 09 2022900 htanyeiknyo@gmail.com www.htanyeiknyo.com Mingalar Par (Handicrafts Show Room) 500, Mya Thidar, Kyun Lone Eu Shoung Quarter, MandalaySagaing Road, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 6812450, 6809727 mingalarparmandalay@gmil.com www.mingalarparmgp.com Shwe Hnin Si (Gold Smith) 118, 36th Street, Between of 78th & 79th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 30218, 09 91036658, 33040979 Shwe Min Thar (Handicraft) 62nd Street, Between of 16th & 17th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 092007439 seinmyintartist@gmail.com
bookshop YANGON
Ar Yone Thit 365, Bogyoke Aung San Street, Top of 31st Street, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 241263
Book Worm Waizayantar Orange Shopping Centre, 2nd Floor, Room-S5, Thingangyun Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 421109960 Innwa 244-246, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 243216, 389838, 374324 Innwa 18, Ground Floor, U Htun Lin Chan Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 514387 Khit Thit Sar Pay 470, Mahabandoola Road, Top of 31st Street & Bo Soon Pat Street, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 380968, 095194969 Monument 150, Dhama Zedi Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 536306, 537805 Myanmar Book Centre 55, Ahlone Road, Corner of Baho Road, Ahlon Township, Yangon. Tel: 221271, 09 73015993, Ngar Doe Sar Pay Sayar San Road, Corner Of Pearl Condo, Pearl Condo, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73055543 09 73147732 Sar Pay (2) 262-264, Ground Floor, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73033802, 09 5145318 Sar Pay (5) 138-140, 1st Floor, Pansoedan Road, Corner of Mahabandoola Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73125067, 09 73140936 Sar Pay (6) Yankin Road, In front of B.E.H.S (1), Yankin Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73019665 Sar Pay (7) 360-B, Thu Min Galar Road, South Okkalapa Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 5179812, 09 73008254 Tab Book Centre Room(4015~4017), 3rd Floor, Taw Win Centre, Pyay Road, Dagon Township, Yangon. Tel: 01- 8600043~44 Today Merchant Street, Corner of Seikkanthar Street, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 398166, 0973150362 Yar Pyae (Hledan) U Tun Lin Chan Sreett, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 5146142 Yar Pyae (Pansodan) 262-B, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 243351, 305952
MANDALAY
Aung Gyi Corner of 30th & 71st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 91028214 Innwa 1st Floor, Corner of 30th & 73rd Street, Mingalar Market, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74957, 61626 Ext-5046 Nagar 290-B, 83rd Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35267, 39869, 21527, 22558 Nyo G(2-3), 71st Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74418, 74764, 69701
Tun Oo 101, 84th Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 73502, 39801, 39891, 72518 Yar Pyae D, 35th Street, Between of 72nd & 73rd Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 77424, 09 2001635, 09 91049111, 09 91049222
car rental YANGON
Anty Thein (Car Rental) Building-A, Room-140, Ground Floor, Mu Di Tar Condo(1), Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 49272113, 09 73230629, 09 250177056 Ho Ho (Car Rental) 43, Myay Nu Street, Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 535535, 09 5152222 info@myantel.com.mm www.hohotransport.com Indo (Car Rental) 19, Room-2, Sabei Street, Near of Yuzana Palaza, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 299899, 09 5156653 mil7877@gmail.com Myint Myat Poe Myay No.(A-5), Room-101, Shwegabar Housing, 3rd Quarter, Mindhama Road, Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 420020035, 09 8572728
MANDALAY
Bardo 256, 70th Street, Between of 30th & 31st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 24561, 09 33318222, 09 33319222 City Corner of 22nd & 58th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 6504257, 09 73241230 mandalayglory@gmail.com Golden Myanmar Butterfly 50, 57th Street, Between of 40th & 41st Street, Yè Mon (South) Ward, Mahaaungmyay, Mandalay. Tel: 62560, 77124, 09 33040316 Fax: 77124 gmbcarrental@gmail.com K & K Car Rental Service 58th Street, 31st & 32nd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2225324, 09 91020390, 09 33837944 wathanntunthein@gmail.com Pleasant Holidays 206, 62nd Street, Between of 24th & 25th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2210073, 09 33276665 pleasantholidays.mdy@gmail. com
food & drink Bar & Beer Pub YANGON
Cousins Grill 138, Bokalay Zay Street, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 792236722, 09 43039729, 09 254076385 Union Bar & Grill 42, Strand Road, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 31018272 info@unionyangon.com www.facebook.com/ UnionBarandGrill
Coffee Shop, Snack Bar & Bakery House YANGON
50th Street Café Restaurant & Bar 9/13, 50th Street, Lower Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 397060~61 50thstreetyangon.com 50th Street Building-A1, Star City, Thanlyin, Yangon. Tel: 397060 After Work 38(A-1), Shan Kone Road, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 4202398224 Bar Boon
Restaurant YANGON
Rm-110, Ground Floor, Ocean Super Centre, Shwe Gone Dine Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (+951) 8603869 (Ext-211)
No. 380, Bogyoke Aung San Road, FMI Centre, Pabedan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (+95) 9 250001392 Easy 24-D, Nar Nat Taw Sreet, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 250360189 Green Ice 58, Kyun Taw Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 534989, 502736 KVAS 202/8, Yanshin Sreett, Yankin Township, Yangon. Monsoon 85-87, Theinbyu Road, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 295224, 09 43121431 MPDC (Myanmar Professional Development Centre) Building-15, Ground Floor, Myanmar Info-Tech, Universities Hlaing Campus, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 507043, 507047, 09 256146919 Sharky’s 117, Dhama Zedi Road, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 524677, 373009 Yangon Bake House (Inya Road) 30, Inya Road, Kamayut Townshp, Yangon. Tel: 09 977117932, 09977117954 Yangon Bake House Pearl Condo, Block(C), Ground Floor, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 9977117947
MANDALAY
Café Ti Ti Ca Ca 27th Street, Between of 72nd & 73rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 24455, 09 2031218, 09 5210879 cafetiticaca@gmail.com Tea Element Snack & Drink 261, 80th Street, Between of 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 65211 www.facebook.com/Tea element
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Auswahl 126/A, 36th Street, Between of 78th & 79th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 011202862, 09 444006602, 09 797813913, 67117 AuswahlCoffee&Dining@gmail. com Bar Focus Bar & Restaurant 21/A, Between of 30th & 31st Street, Between of 71st & 72nd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 250800036, 09 250800037 barfocus.mdy@gmail.com www.facebook.com/Bar Focus. Café Summit Bar & Restaurant Da Dway-1/8, 37th Street, Between of 65th & 66th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 69788, 09 32306600, 09 250063798 www.facebook.com/Café Summit. com Central Park’s Pizza 6, Corner of 32nd & 66th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 91013500, 09 256136778, 09 256360747 Gian Sushi Japanese Restaurant Corner of 32nd & 65th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 421142428,
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09 256369628, 09 250563181 Life Café (Dimsum & Resturant) 29th Street, Between of 72nd & 73rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 73502664, 09 2002664, 092029563 Mingalabar Restaurant 18, 71st Street, Between of 28th & 29th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 60480, 09 258393032 restaurantmingalabar@gmail. com NY Chinese & Thai Food 70th Street, Between of 27th & 28th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 254285499 Sushi Bar Cuisine Corner of 29th & 71st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 011202803 Thai Thani 27, 64th Street, Between of 27th & 28th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 257899784, 09 259236878 thaithanimandalay@gmail.com www.thaithanimandalay.com
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Carino Café & Restaurant 335, Quarter-6, Forest Street, Pyin Oo Lwin. Tel: 09 256110608, 09 2046038
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Maxim Café & Restaurant 24/3, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Yae Aye Kwin Quarter, Taunggyi. Tel: 2122562, 09 5215524
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Le Monde Restaurant Near Kay Lar Monastery, Yay Chan Street, Inn Chan Village, Inle. Tel: 09 49352392 (Inle), (01) 245630 (Yangon) www.lemonderestaurant.com
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Great Diamond Gems & Jewellery 10, Junction Square, Between of Kyun Taw Street & Pyay Road, Yangon. annywai@gmail.com
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A.T.P Gems & Jewellery 81-A, 73rd Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 31239, 35489, 09 6805056, 09 5015939 atp317@gmail.com www.atpjewellery.com Great Diamond Gems & Jewellery 273/A, 80th Street, Between of 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 35235, 71222 annywai@gmail.com ADVERTISING
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Air Mandalay Room-1, SY Building, Ground Floor, 78th Street, Between 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 61513, 64554, 68061, 68062 Fax: 68061 sales.mdy@airmandalay.com.mm www.airmandalay.com Ancient Golden City 440, 81st Street, Between 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 72313, 092027868, 09 797777335 ancientgoldencity@gmail.com Aye Khwar Nyo 78th Street, Between 42nd Street & Theik Pan Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 259024634, 09 2038211, 09 402763885 nwenimyint83@gmail.com Columbus Travels 64, 73rd Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 60956, 011203023, 0991027135 Fax: 60956 juju.clb@gmail.com ticket@asiavacation.com Excel Tickets 102, 28th Street, Between 75th & 76th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 21427, 09 402526588, 09 2057485 i SEA 80th Street, Between of 35th & 36th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 73049, 09 444000688, 09444017500, 400406226 isea.mdy@gmail.com Made Myanmar Co., Ltd. (Ticketing & Tour Service) 80th Street, Between of 9th & 10th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 91044874, 09 258188188, 09 258386877, 09 258386899 www.mmtt.com.mm Myanmar National Air Line 81st Street, Between of 25th & 26th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 36221, 36222 Nan Taw Win Co., Ltd C-6, 71st Street, Between 30th & 31st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74029, 011201476, 0933328247 nantawwin.travel@gmail.com Seven Swan 173, 27th Street, Between 80th & 81st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 402716416, 09 250200404, 09978081040 sevenswanmyanmar@gmail.com
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12 Season Travel & Tours 39, 1st Floor, Yae Kyaw Street, Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 397240, 291120, 09 250012635 12ssreservation@gmail.com 7 Angels Travel & Tour 47, Ma Hu Rar Street, Kyaikkansan Ward, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 551853, 09 253102418 7angelstours@gmail.com www.facebook.com/7angelsTOURS Amazing Myanmar A-149, Upper Baho Road, Muditar (1), Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 252805466, 09 976565497, 09 31109370 Asia Joys Tours 33, Sin Oh Dan Street, Lower Block, Latha Township, Yangon. Tel: 226470 Asia Scenery 108/109, 2nd Floor, Thamine (8) Street, 1st Quarter, Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73116762, 09 796578304, 09 448034900, 09 975266893 asiascenery@gmail.com www.asiascenerytravelmyanmar. com Asian Elegant Travel & Tour 220, 1st Floor (Right), 37th Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 371680, 09 421091550, 09 421158487 asianeleganttravel@gmail.com Asian Empress Travels & Tour 74, Ground Floor, Than Thadar Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 501712, 09 30382448~49 Fax: 501712 asianempresstravels@gmail.com www.asiannempresstravels.com
No. 73, Pyay Road, Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 211212, 223262, 211670 asiantrailsmyanmar@gmail.com res@asiantrails.com.mm Baw Dhi Htoo 264, Pan Soe Dan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 377814, 378465, 09 73194233 bawdhihtoo@gmail.com Beyond Dream 74-A, Aye Chan Thar Yar Street, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 544160, 09 5164762, 09 5102026 karel.linn91@gmail.com sales.beyonddream@gmail.com BKK Future Dream 6, 1st Floor, R Zar Ni Street, Sayar San (North) Ward, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 0949440114, 09428018069 Blue Sky 48/50, Room-3/4, 36th Street, Lower Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 43088054 khinesweoo005@gmail.com Crystal World Travels & Tours 171-A, Room-2(A), 38th Street, Middle Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 383368, 09 421147241 crystalworld.7777@gmail.com
Da Na Moe Travels & Tours 335/357, Ground Floor, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 383655, 241018, 389436~37, 09 5559666 Dawn Night Travel Co.,Ltd 273, 1st Floor, Pansoedan Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 372097, 09 73051621, 09 73202550 dktour2010@gmail.com info@dkmyanmar.com www.dkmyanmar.com Diethelm Travel Myanmar 412, Merchant Street, Corner of 45th Street, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 01 8610458 Fax: 01 8610457 www.diethelmtravel.com Dynamic Myanmar 516, Ground Floor, Oo Yin Street, New University Street, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 554982, 09 73080104 dynamicmyanmar.mm@gmail.com antyswe2010@gmail.com Eastern Sky Travel & Tour Building-12, Room-6(A), 6th Floor, Hlaing Butar Yone Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73043364, 09 251158440 Easy Myanmar Travel & Tour 174-176, 1st Floor, Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 245676, 09 73072222, 09 972470000 info.easymyanmar@gmail.com Energy Logistics Myanmar Co.,Ltd 295, Room-5(F/G), 6th Floor, Myoh Ma Kyaung Street, Myoh Ma Kyaung Street Condo, Dagon Township, Yangon. Tel: 501213, 09 420148902 Fax: 501213 www.energylogisticsmyanmar.com Explore Asia (Klaw Myay) 246, 11st Floor, Pan Soe Dan St, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 398105, 09 5017020, 09 255942750 kalawmyaetravel@gmail.com Exquisite Myanmar Travel & Tour Rm-808, 8th Floor, Ah Lan Pya Pagoda Road, La Pyae Wun Plaza, Dagon Township, Yangon. Tel: 370832, 09 73151691 Fax: 370832 exquisite@mail4u.com.mm Family Mandalar Travel & Tours 170/176, New Aye Yar Hotel, Ground Floor, Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Middle Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 256856, 256857, 256796 Fax: 256856 tour@familymandalartnt.com www.familymandalartnt.com Fly To World Travel & Tour No.29, Building-3(A), 2nd Floor, Ma Po Street, Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 01 1223668, 09 3389877, 0933389733 fly2worldtravels@gmail.com www.fly2worldtravel.com Focus Asia 126, Room-005, 2nd Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, New World Building, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 430900, 430474 myanmar@focus.asia www.focus.asia.travel Full Up 66, 12th Street, Lower Block, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 225664, 212321, 09 73027763 Fax: 225664 fulluptravel@gmail.com
Fun Holiday 44, Kaing Dan Street, Lower Block, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 448009566 Global Grace 37, East Baho Street, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 549931, 09 5558945 info@globalgracetravelmyanmar. com Gold Kangaroo Travels & Tours A-141, Room-604, 5th Floor, Bargayar Condo, Bargayar Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-2304536, 500125, 09 5008225 sales@myanmartravelgkt.com www.goldkangaroomyanmartravels.com Golden Trip Travel & Tours 507, Pyay Rd, Between Hledan Street & Nar Nat Taw Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 500351, 701027 Fax: 2305558 reservation@goldentripsmyanmar.com Gooday Tours Co.,Ltd Room-503, Building-D, 5th Flr, Pearl Condo, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-400700, 400770 goodaytours@gmail.com Greatest First Travels & Tours 215, 5th Floor, Kyaikkasan Street, Near Kyauk Myaung Zay Bustop, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 31868181, 09 978356971, 09 261478320 greatestfirsttours@gmail.com Happy Holidays Travels & Tours 251, 37th Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 385729, 09 73787878, 09 5402580 happyholidaystravels2012@ gmail.com www.happyholidaystravels.com Harmony Services & Travel & Tours Co.,Ltd 254, 3rd Floor, 40th Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 240856, 385750 Fax: 240856 harmony.servs@gmail.com Honey Land 188, 2nd Floor, 37th Street, Middle Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 372342 Intertrust World Travels & Tours 289, Ground Floor, Pansoedan Road, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 251536, 398312, 09 43098453 intertrustworld@gmail.com Inya Myanmar 93-B, 2nd Floor, Baho Road, Between Than Thadar Street & Tayoke Kyaung Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 518142, 09 420285914, 09 5087860 Jade Castle 57-A, Yaw Min Gyi Street, Dagon Township, Yangon. Tel: 388766, 09 256178569 Fax: 378778 jcgroup8lc2002@gmail.com Journeys Advanture Travel 53, Nagayon Pagoda Street,8½ Miles, Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 656259, 664275, 660104 Fax: 664451 Sales@journeysadvanturetravel. com www.peakdmc.com
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K & H Travels Co.,Ltd 92, Ground Floor, Kyun Taw Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 510338, 510057, 09 73183450, 09 73183204 Fax: 510057 reservation@khtravels.com Kalaw Myay Travel & Tours No. 246, Pasodan Street, Pinlon Tower, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 09 5017020, 09 972147041 kalawmyaetravel@gmail.com Khiri Travel 519, Bogalay Zay Street, Lower Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 375577 Khwar Nyo Thwaye Travels & Tours 46, Ground Floor, Aung Thapyay Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 536747, 09 239833, 09 6802104 khwarnyothwaye@gmail.com Lake Inlay 63-C, Koh Min Koh Chin Street, Shwe Gone Daing (West) Ward, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-8603430, 8603431 Fax: 8603431 lakeinlay.myanmar@gmail.com Loi Seng Khan 271, 7th Floor, Shwe Gone Daing Street, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 8603098, 09 253635146 samuel.sai.ygn@gmail.com Lucky Aim Co.,Ltd 82, 1st Floor, 51st (Middle Block), Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 9010465, 09 420220363 Fax: 01-9010465 luckyaim@gmail.com
Marvellous Travel & Tours Room (304), D-1, Delta Plaza, Middle Shwegondine, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 559161, +959 73013522, 5040715 marvellous65@gmail.com www.marvelloustravels.com Makhan Travels & Tours Co.,Ltd 197, Ground Floor, 33rd Street, Upper Block, (1) Ward, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73069101, 09 43184580, 09 73144718 mktravelstours.coltd@gmail.com Mandalar Charm Travels & Tours 226, Ground Floor, 38th Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 242129, 256672, 09 5045819 Fax: 256672 mandalarcharm@gmail.com Mandalay Travels & Tours 462(A), Zarni 13rd Street, 9th Quarter, South Okkalapa Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 5155137, 09 799632779 Fax: 650513 mandalaytoursforyou@gmail.com www.mandalaytoursforyou.com
Min Myanmar Chit Khant 82/86, Ground Floor, Middle Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 294525, 09 30326558 reservation.minmyanmarck@ gmail.com Moby Dick Tours Co.,Ltd 89-91, Room-2, Ground Floor, 32nd Street, Between Mahabandoola Road & Merchant Road, Lower Block, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 380832 info@mobydick.myanmar.com. mm mobydick@myanmartravel.cc www.myanmartravel.cc Mogok Panorama Travel & Tour 114, 1st Floor, 22nd Street, Latha Township, Yangon. Tel: 371602, 09 5158876, 09 450049981 My Myanmar Travel 158, 45rd Street, 7th Floor, Upper Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73121788, 01-9010470 resa1@myanmartravel.com
No.50, 2nd Floor, 164 Street, Tamwe Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +95 1 8604360, +95 9 795552666, +95 9 5145050, +95 9 43052625 info@myanmarallure.com sales@myanmarallure.com www.myanmarallure.com qq, we chat: 1931574079 Myanmar Delta Travel & Tour 186, 33rd Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 386938, 09 420029942 Fax: 386938 myanmardeltatravels@gmail.com Myanmar East Tour Room-1007, Anawrahta Road, Central Tower, 10th Floor, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 392697, 381334, 09 73112217 Fax: 381334 myanmartoureast.com@gmail. com Myanmar Eldorado Paradise Building-F, Kan Yeik Mon Housing, Kan Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 505929, 521963 myanmar.ep@gmail.com Myanmar Elite Travel & Tours Building (18), Flat (5-B), Mahar Zeya Street, Yaekyaw, Pazuntaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 294977, 9000052, +959 5164335, 43108864 Fax: +951 294977, 9000052 melite@myanmar.com.mm maymyo.elite@gmail.com www.myanmarelitetours.com Myanmar Mover 364-A, Ground Floor, Banyar Dala Street, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 552149, 09 252578787, 09 79751685 kyawhtoosunn@myanmarmover. com www.myanmarmover.com Myanmar Orient Pacific 13, Dagon Thiri Street,1st Floor, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 709110, 209169 moptatravel@gmail.com Myanmar Shalom Travel 70, 2nd Floor, 31st Street, Lower Block, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 377846~47, 371253 Fax: 252814 info@myanmarshalom.com
Nature Lovers 42/46, 2nd Floor, 52nd Street, Lower Block, Botahtaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 397402, 397403 d.aung55@gmail.com myanmar.naturelovers@gmail.com New Explorer Travels & Tours No.403, Block 3, Nyaung Tan Housing, Pazuntaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +959 5060570, 97 2224774 newexplorertravel@gmail.com www.newexplorertravel.com New Hight Light Travels & Tours Co.,Ltd Building-15/16, 1st Floor, Bahosi Housing, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 223587, 223589
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No. 5, Aung San Stadium (near city mart), Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 393088, 255699, 255897, 255898, 255899 Fax: +951 393048 honicefare@myanmar.com.mm nicefaretravel@gmail.com
No.1104, 11st Floor, Pearl Condo(C), Corner of Kaba Aye Pagoda Road & Sayar San Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 401296, +951 8603861 info@pacificairmyanmar.com www.pacificairmyanmar.com Pan Thu Kha Travel & Tour 43, 2nd Floor, Ma Kyi Kyi Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 01 2304567 Panoramic Myanmar 40/B, Ground Floor, 109th Street, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon. Tel: 011205754, 09 255801877, 09 2043875 sales.panoramicmyanmartours@ gmail.com Pearl Nadi Travels & Tours 120, 51st Street, Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 292927, 292928, 200948 Rainbow Trails Travel 345, Bo Aung Kyaw Street, Upper Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 246649, 09 5190914 railbowtrails.travel@gmail.com RIO 205, Ground Floor, Seikkanthar Street, Middle Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 372636, 385898, 379720 Fax: 379720 riomyanmar@gmail.com Rising Travel & Tour 180, Orient Tower, Ground Floor, 49th Street, Upper Block, Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-8610437 Fax: 201303 risingmyanmar@gmail.com Riviera Travel & Tours 544, 3rd Floor, Kawliya Street, South Okkalapa Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 5104491, 09 254255911 info@rivieramyanmar.com
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No. 225, 1st Floor (Right), 37th Street (Upper), Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +95 (01) 254698, +95 (09) 252221990, +95 (09) 252221991 scenerymyanmar@gmail.com www.travelingtomyanmar.com Seven United 14-A, Ingyin Street, Pale, Mingalardon Township, Yangon. Tel: 638622, 09 73237692, 09 421742777 Fax: 09 73206574, 638622 info@sevenunitedtravel.com www.sevenunitedtravel.com Shinning Star 69, 27th Street, Lower Block, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 240113, 240996 shinningtours2013@gmail.com Shwe Phone Pyae 38, Aung Zay Ya Road, Kyauk Kone, Yankin Township, Yangon. Tel: 566101, 09 73060048 09 2011313 Fax: 566101 shwephonepyae65@gmail.com Silver Limb 108, 3rd Floor, 92nd Street, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 73041335 Silver Phoenix Travel & Tours Building-C, Room-008, Nar Nat Taw Street, Corner of Hnin Si Street, Yuzana High Way Bus Compound, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 535906, 09 43068665 info@silverphoenixtourism.com Sin Hwa 52, Bo Ywe Street, 1st Floor, Lower Block, Latha Township, Yangon. Tel: 243437, 240140, 388200 sinhwa52@gmail.com Sky Bus 1, Sayar San Road, Sayar San Park, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 556801, 09 43111887, 09 43445577 skybustravel@gmail.com
No.35, Ground Floor, Lan Thit Road (Mawtin Road), Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (+95)-1-2301511, 2301522, 2300106 Fax: (+95)-1-2300106 info@starzonetravels.com www.starzonetravels.com www.facebook.com/SZtravels Tay Thi Yar Travels & Tours 259/276, Mahabandoola Garden Street, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 375009
Teo Myanmar Travels & Tours Co., Ltd. No. 301/B, Room 18, Kabaraye Pagoda Street, 9 Quarter, Mayangone Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +959 5083179, +959 250067507, +959 49155327, +959 73095385 Fax: +951 650179 teo.myanmar@gmail.com teo.birmania@gmail.com www.teoguidabirmania.it Thar Yar Thaw Eain 115, 38th Street, Lower Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 09 5046492, 09 73031389 The Lins Travels & Tour 47, Ground Floor, Yae Kyaw Street, Pazundaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 296531, 201784 thelinstravel@gmail.com www.thelinstravel.com Thu Kha Su San Building-506, Room-A/2, 1st Floor, Merchant Street, Corner of 30th Street, Pabedan Township, Yangon. Tel: 386877, 377343 Fax: 392393 thukhasusan2012@gmail.com www.tksstkss.com Tint Tint Travel & Tour 402, Room-B6, Shwe Kabar Housing, Mindhama Street, 3rd Ward, Mayangone Township, Yangon. Tel: 655228, 652490, 09 5102104 Fax: 655228, 652490 tinttintmyanmar@gmail.com www.tinttintmyanmar.com Toe Toe Yadanar 107-B, Ground Floor, Kyun Taw Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 527539, 503925 Fax: 527539 toetoeyadanar.travel@gmail.com www.toetoeyadanartravel.com Tour Mandalay Building-A, Room-02/03, 2nd Floor, Kabar Aye Pagoda Road, Corner of Saya San Street, Pearl Condo, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 540475, 545850 Fax: 541098 info@tourmandalay.travel www.tourmandalay.travel Tourism Myanmar Travels & Tours 165, 35th Street, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. Tel: 204200, 381200, 09 421098002 travel.evisa@gmail.com Travel Zone No.2, Room-9(A/B), Sagawar Condo, Moe Kaung Road, Yankin Township, Yangon. Tel: 548473, 09 73119243, 09 5403143 Treak Travel 77-E, Shin Saw Pu Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 304713~14
Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, Lake view ground floor, Kanyeiktha Road, Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 399319, 399320 +959 5014842, 73114422 info@treasure.com.mm www.treasuremyanmar.com
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Truly Myanmar 55, Ground Floor, 5th Street, Middle Block, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 704675, 2301131 trulymyanmar@gmail.com Up Land Travels & Tours Room-1209(A), 12th Floor, Yuzana Tower, West Shwe Gone Daing Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 559218, 558411 Fax: 559218 upland.mm@gmail.com
No.143, 2nd Floor, 37th Street, Middle Block, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (+959)730 48 430, (+959)254 202 985, (+959)448 540 747, (+959)420 311 282 info@victoriouskingtravels.com sales@victoriouskingtravels.com www.victoriouskingtravels.com www.vkmyanmartravels.com Wanderlust Trvel & Tour 7-C, Ground Floor, Mahar Baw Ga Street, Myay Ni Gone, Sanchaung Township, Yangon. Tel: 524201, 09 253581822 wanderlusttravel@gmail.com
No. 81, Phone Gyi Street (Middle), Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: +951 218181~4 Fax: +951 227133 info@worldconnecttravels.com www.worldconnecttravels.com World Myanmar 32-A1, Ground Floor, YangonInsein Road, Top of Kan Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 504912, 0930080010, www.onemyanmartravel.com World Myanmar (Door To Door Bus & Air Ticket Services) 32-A1, Ground Floor, YangonInsein Road, Top of Kan Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 504912, 0930080010, 095122442, 0973004361 operation@worldmyanmartravel. com www.worldmyanmartravel.com Yadanar Myaing 2/401, Yangon-Insein Road, Yadanar Myaing Housing, Near San Yeik Nyein Bus-stop, Kamayut Township, Yangon. Tel: 513788, 502813, 0973012473 Yagon Express 44, Lan Thit Street, Lower Block, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Tel: 211955, 229315 Yankin Ticketin Agent Yankin Road, Near Of Yankin Post Office, Yankin Township, Yangon. Tel: 562174, 09 420011108, 09 250017096
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Amara River Strand Road, Between of 34th & 35th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 73092036, 09 258074163, 096803471(ARC1), 096803992(ARC2) rsvn.arc@amaragroupmyanmar. com www.amaragroupmyanmar.com
Asia Smile 320, Corner of 21st & 80th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2032375, 09 444007822, 09 2013627, 23231 asiasmilemyanmar@gmail.com Asian Trails Tours Co., Ltd. 58th Street, Between of 23rd & 24th Street, Mahar Zayar Bone Ward, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 71669, 09 2042172, 09 91027871 Fax: 71669 tam.asiantrails.mm@gmail.com www.asiantrails.travel Beautiful Present 166, 33rd Street, Between 76th & 77th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 975121545, 09 798584406 inquiry@beautifulpresenttours. com www.beautifulpresenttours.com Bo Chuan 56, 69th Street, Between 42nd Street & Theik Pan Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 32749266, 09 32749277 bochuanmdy@gmail.com D & T Myanmar Travels (Travel & Tour) D-104, First Floor, Shwe Phyu Plaza, Between of 77th & 78th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 402775773, 09 2060965, 09 259462008 dagun007@gmail.com www.dt-myanmartravels.com Emerald Myanmar Corner of Theikpan & Yadanarbone Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 33668666, 09 33669666 emeraldmyanmartravel@gmail. com EPG 18, Sar Tike Tann Ward, Amayapuya Township, Mandalay. Tel: 70009, 09 2006824 www.epgtravel.com Ever Stand Travels & Tours 28th Street, Between of 63rd & 64th Street, Aung Taw Mu Villa, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2038819, 09 33530894 kophoehtaung@gmail.com Exo 99, 26th Street, Between of 75th & 76th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 34719, 74893, 09 5212217, 09 6502293 Fax: 34719, 74893 mapuak@exotissimo.com www.exotissimo.com Go & Go Travels & Tours Co., Ltd. 40, 82nd Street, Between of 15th & 16th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 72553, 09 43122659, 09 250651146 mandalay.goandgotravels@ gmail.com www.goandgotravels.com Good Flower Travel & Tours H-12/41, Pyu Saw Htee Road, Between of 61st & 62nd Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 91002598, 09 259057685 info@goodflowertravel.com www.goodflowertravel.com Green & Green 456, 81st Street, Between of 32nd & 33rd Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 66498, 09 402567058, 09 402523627, 09 91026208 Fax: 66498 greenandgreen.travel@gmail.com www.myanmargngtravel.com
Hin Thar Thit 268, 63rd Street, Between of 29th & 30th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 33200, 66439, 39452 Fax: 39452 haymarhtoo.htt@gmail.com www.hintharthit.com J & M Travel & Tour 159/2, Between of 72nd & 73rd Street, Between of 33rd & 34th Street, Yanmyolon Quarter, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 66987, 09 2004606, 09 256297953 Fax: 011201407 aungthukywe.jmtt@gmail.com Mahar Galoun Min Ta-4/18-19, 62nd Street, Between of Tha Zin Street & Ngu Pyar Street, Chan Mya Thar Zi Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2024762, 09 91000252, 09 444016242 Fax: 66002 mgmtravel9999@gmail.com Mandalay In Bloom (MIB) 59/9, 58th Street, Between of 40th & 41st Street, Shwe Wut Hmone Lane, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 73197611, 09 402626510, 09 448013967, 095143537 Fax: 62686 mandalayinbloomtravel@gmail. com Marvelous Three 413/4, 62nd Street, Between of 36th & 37th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62378, 09 2014526, 09 5091689 Fax: 62378 m3travelmyanmar@gmail.com www.marvelousthreemyanmartravel.com Mya Thi Ta Gu Travel & Tour 298, 81st Street, Between of 24th & 25th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 30878, 67088, 09 91029773, 09 2024062, 09 444016966 Fax: 67332 myathitagu.mdl@gmail.com Myanma Moe Myay Travels & Tours Co.,Ltd Between of 36th & 37th Street, Between of 55th & 56th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62719, 09 402508871 Fax: 62719 myanmamoemyay@gmail.com Myanmar Top Choice 686, 7th Floor, 80th Street, Between of 39th & 40th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 256362882, 63173, 32407 Fax: 33877 nandar@mtcmandalay.com www.mtcmandalay.com Ovation 135/4, 3rd Floor, Between of 23rd & 24th Street, Between of 82nd & 83rd Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 259008930, 09 33417303, 09 402577213 ovationtraveltoursmandalay@ gmail.com
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PTT (Path Group of Companies) 652, 78th Street, Between of 37th & 38th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 76333, 76444, 09 2071777 Royal Mandalar B-98, 60th Street, Between of 34th & 35th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62056, 09 256127878, 09 256127979 royalmandalargroup@gmail.com Shining Dragon D-1, Between of 34th & 35th Street, Between of 68th & 69th Street, Nawaratt Avenue, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 43188200 yanzixing168@gmail.com Tour Mandalay C-1, Corner of 35th & 71st Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 62625, 39258, 09 2001516 Fax: 62474, 39281 aungaungzaw@tourmandalay. travel.com www.tourmandalay.com.mm Travel Irrawaddy Between of 23rd & 24th Street, Between of 87th & 88th Street, Aung Myay Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 421143322, 09 450053322 Tun 62nd Street, Between of 39th & 40th Street, Mahaaungmyay Township, Mandalay. Tel: 09 2039648, 09 2151399 Zone Express 68th Street, Between of 26th & 27th Street, Chan Aye Thar Zan Township, Mandalay. Tel: 74651, 74652, 09 2007337 zone.mandalay@gmail.com www.myanmarzonetravel.com
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