I would like to thank you and very glad to welcome tourist like you. I have seen many youtuber comes and posted which they didn't know much about Myanmar's history, culture, traditions and religion. Instead they are just for the sunrise and sunset in Bagan for some beautiful instagram photos. But deep down there are much more than that to be seen and explored. I've seen other videos of you as well they are all very well informative and well observed. Very much appreciated.
Definitely looks like there are some fun explorations to be had. Myanmar is still on our list as we didn't make it there on our last SE Asia trip. Thanks for the video!
Very different! Although, funnily enough, trains in Myanmar are actually old Japanese diesel trains! You can still see kanji on them and we even saw one that still said JR on the front! Haha The City Circular Train was right up there as one of our favourite experiences in Yangon. Really glad you liked it too! Thanks for watching!
we went in 2015 for 3 weeks including an Irrawaddy, Chindwin River expedition, now to go back this month for the second time, enjoyed your Video and will do this time the Circular train...
thanks for this lovely video. I am from a solo traveler heading to Myanmar from Cambodia and really didnt knew much about Myanmar before watching this video. Now i know what to do there in 2 days as i also have 2 days there. I am actually from Pakistan. You should come to Pakistan as well for worlds best hospitality with worlds 6 out of 11 biggest mountains, worlds deepest seaport, worlds biggest salt mine, super spicy food and many many more things
I really enjoyed this video, seeing people jumping on the ferry in, what looked like flip flops, trains with no doors, the trains for transporting goods if you like, no shoes on escalators, love seeing different cultures compared to the west. Many thanks
Thanks so much, Tracy! We're trying to show more of the stuff that's going on around us to give a better sense of the sights and sounds of the places we visit, and the experience as a whole. So glad you liked those details. More Myanmar videos to come - we hope you'll enjoy those as well. Thanks for watching!
Great video. We're here in Australia researching Myanmar in the hope that we'll be able to travel there when international borders are open. Yours is far and away the best video we've seen about things to do in Yangon. We'll looking forward to diving into the rest of your videos to help us plan our trip.
Great video , i like the information and talking to camera :) I hope to go to Myanmar soon. I have some family heritage there on my mums side of the family
British & their Indian-subcontinent servants that they used throughout their colonial empires worldwide, and their conspiracy of territorial expansion into Myanmar through immigration/migration (rewards from master, by the way), that eventually ended up people of that small homogeneous nation, paying ultimate price of tragedies of all kinds! blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=742201
Like I said, it's all about British & their South Asian fellows that they used as soldiers to protect throughout colonial empire worldwide, while colonial master extracted wealth for century, and their territorial expansion into Myanmar through immigration/migration (rewards from master, by the way), which eventually ended up people of small homogeneous nation, paying ultimate price of tragedies! Google "Long Live Indochina - World Affairs - China Daily Forum" for my forum.
Yes, they do. In fact, most of the places we showed in this video are free to locals. Of the places we went, locals only needed to pay for the ferry and City Circular Train, and the ferry ticket was much less for locals. I think the City Circular Train is the same for everyone at this point. Charging foreigners seems to be the way the country is trying to capitalize on increased tourism. Places that were previously free to all, now often have a fee for foreigners only and we'd say this trend is likely to increase as the tourism industry expands.
Notes of Nomads Thanks for your response :) What are your thoughts on this? I think charging foreigners higher fee isn't exactly promoting tourism even though the fee are minimal since most countries' currencies more than likely have higher value. This seems to be very common around Asia.
Yeah, it is common in Asia. It was certainly better to pay in the local currency rather than $US for the attractions we mentioned in this video. For example, the Shwedagon Pagoda was either 8,000 kyats or $8. With the current exchange rate, 8,000 kyats is about $5.80. Many countries don't think they should charge locals to see their own national heritage, which we can understand, especially in places where charging may mean that a large proportion of the local population may not be able to afford to visit. We don't mind paying if it's not exorbitant and it goes towards maintenance and preservation of the places we are visiting, the salaries of local staff and stimulates the local economy. At the same time, there are some things that we think should probably just be the same for everybody. For example, taking the local ferry, or an otherwise free public park, where everyone is walking through freely and you are singled out to go to the ticket office. We can understand why visitors may get annoyed or even upset by this. I guess we have just become accustomed to it, even if we don't always agree with it. We're not sure if it really has a negative impact on tourism since people seem to come anyway. As travellers, we hope to travel in a responsible way that also brings economic benefit to the people. If that means paying more sometimes, then so be it. But we also recognise that some of these payments don't necessarily trickle down to those we most want to support. So while there are some unavoidable fees to the authorities, we also try to support local people directly by our accommodation and service choices.
The locals are used to visit the religious places regularly and donate generously in order to preserve the Pagodas. Tourists just visit the place and almost none of the will donate some kyat. So I think it is more than normal for foreigners to pay an entrance fee. In the West we also have to pay for musea etc. We spend a lot of money for our trips, expensive lunches etc. So a small fee is no big deal.
Mirror UK: Gang-raped, mutilated and forced to watch their babies killed: Traumatised Rohingya women who fled Myanmar horror share their stories Dildar Begum, 30, says that one day the military came and opened fired on her village and stormed into her house. They took her husband out of the house and to the riverbank and shot him. Then they came back into her house and grabbed Dildar's baby from her arms and stabbed him in the head. They killed another one of her children by cutting his throat, and another by beating her over the head with a rifle. She was then raped. They then beat her and she pretended to be dead. When they left, they set her house on fire. Her 10 year old daughter, Nurkalima, was severely injured when the military beat her over the head with the blades of machetes, but she helped her mum crawl past the burning bodies of her children and out of the burning house. For five days Dildar hid in the hills and when the military left, she went back to Tula Toli on her way to the Bangladesh border. All that was left of her village was smoke and ask where houses used to be. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gallery/gang-raped-mutilated-forced-watch-11649395
Mirror UK: Gang-raped, mutilated and forced to watch their babies killed: Traumatised Rohingya women who fled Myanmar horror share their stories Dildar Begum, 30, says that one day the military came and opened fired on her village and stormed into her house. They took her husband out of the house and to the riverbank and shot him. Then they came back into her house and grabbed Dildar's baby from her arms and stabbed him in the head. They killed another one of her children by cutting his throat, and another by beating her over the head with a rifle. She was then raped. They then beat her and she pretended to be dead. When they left, they set her house on fire. Her 10 year old daughter, Nurkalima, was severely injured when the military beat her over the head with the blades of machetes, but she helped her mum crawl past the burning bodies of her children and out of the burning house. For five days Dildar hid in the hills and when the military left, she went back to Tula Toli on her way to the Bangladesh border. All that was left of her village was smoke and ask where houses used to be. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gallery/gang-raped-mutilated-forced-watch-11649395
Myanmar is now different...hope everyone is fine
Yangon is a great holiday destination where one can relax and enjoy a lot of exciting adventure.
beautiful city yangon so I love yangon. from: Cambodia 💘💘💘💘
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i enjoy watching the tourist s and the view of SAN supermarket
Comprehensive and authentic .True and practical Myanmar, I like this video
Thank you for your informative and non gimmicky presentation of things to do in Yangon.
You did more in two days than I've done in two weeks in Yangon.
One of the best videos I have watched of Myanmar. Too many others are all about themselves and not enough content.
I would like to thank you and very glad to welcome tourist like you. I have seen many youtuber comes and posted which they didn't know much about Myanmar's history, culture, traditions and religion. Instead they are just for the sunrise and sunset in Bagan for some beautiful instagram photos. But deep down there are much more than that to be seen and explored. I've seen other videos of you as well they are all very well informative and well observed. Very much appreciated.
So many things to see in Yangon... can't wait to go back there. Thank you for your video :-)
Thanks for watching and hope you can get back soon to explore more!
nice background music...with high base.... thx
Nicely done Video. Thank you for including text! Thank you for the video. Good job!
Thank you for a straight up, informative guide without all the posturing. Subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thank you so much, Linda! Really appreciate it and hope you have a great stay in Yangon if you're planning on visiting!
Thank you for this amazing content , I got good feedback about this city
Definitely looks like there are some fun explorations to be had. Myanmar is still on our list as we didn't make it there on our last SE Asia trip. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching! That was the same for us so we decided to make a special trip this time. Definitely recommend it when you're next in the region!
Myanmar is really BEAUTIFUL. I enjoyed so much.👍🏻👌🏻
Yangon is one of the safest and most beautiful cities in Asia
i am from the Philippines and im dying to go to Myanmar too.. thanks for the tour and i hope you can also visit Ph ;) more power to you
We hope to visit the Philippines some day soon! Thanks for watching!
I liked seeing both the tourist places, but also scenes like on the train. That'd be a real cool ride to go on. Much different than Japanese trains!
Very different! Although, funnily enough, trains in Myanmar are actually old Japanese diesel trains! You can still see kanji on them and we even saw one that still said JR on the front! Haha The City Circular Train was right up there as one of our favourite experiences in Yangon. Really glad you liked it too! Thanks for watching!
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Omg!! I'm a huge fan of your channel! I'm Burmese, and I hope you visit us someday!
we went in 2015 for 3 weeks including an Irrawaddy, Chindwin River expedition, now to go back this month for the second time, enjoyed your Video and will do this time the Circular train...
Thanks, Monika! Yes, definitely do the Circular train this time around. It was one of our favourite activities in Yangon!
thanks for this lovely video. I am from a solo traveler heading to Myanmar from Cambodia and really didnt knew much about Myanmar before watching this video. Now i know what to do there in 2 days as i also have 2 days there. I am actually from Pakistan. You should come to Pakistan as well for worlds best hospitality with worlds 6 out of 11 biggest mountains, worlds deepest seaport, worlds biggest salt mine, super spicy food and many many more things
I really enjoyed this video, seeing people jumping on the ferry in, what looked like flip flops, trains with no doors, the trains for transporting goods if you like, no shoes on escalators, love seeing different cultures compared to the west. Many thanks
Thanks so much, Tracy! We're trying to show more of the stuff that's going on around us to give a better sense of the sights and sounds of the places we visit, and the experience as a whole. So glad you liked those details. More Myanmar videos to come - we hope you'll enjoy those as well. Thanks for watching!
Great guide to Yangon, congratulations for this video!
Thank you for good presentation of Yangon.
Great video. We're here in Australia researching Myanmar in the hope that we'll be able to travel there when international borders are open. Yours is far and away the best video we've seen about things to do in Yangon. We'll looking forward to diving into the rest of your videos to help us plan our trip.
Thanks from myanmar.
Wow..amazing video!sweety.
Great video. Im headed there in a couple of months and I will follow in your foot steps.
Thank you and enjoy your trip!
When are you going ? I'm going there too !
Beautiful places.
This is fun to wach it
Wondrful video❤️
I love this vidio
Lovely content! Keep it up!
Cool! Thank you! :)
Great video , i like the information and talking to camera :) I hope to go to Myanmar soon. I have some family heritage there on my mums side of the family
Just found you guys on another travel channel! Excited I did new sub here excited to see more you guys have a tremendous talent
Thanks guys! Looking forward to seeing more on your channel too! :)
For details of all the places mentioned in this video, check out our blog post: notesofnomads.com/things-to-do-yangon-myanmar/
私も、2020年12月1日から、世界一周の旅にでます。
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I miss yangon....
Good tips
Long live Myanmar.
Long-live Myanmar! Google ' Long Live Indochina/China Daily' for God's honest truth on Myanmar and it's beautiful friendly people.
Long Live all beautiful people of Myanmar.
British & their Indian-subcontinent servants that they used throughout their colonial empires worldwide, and their conspiracy of territorial expansion into Myanmar through immigration/migration (rewards from master, by the way), that eventually ended up people of that small homogeneous nation, paying ultimate price of tragedies of all kinds! blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=742201
Like I said, it's all about British & their South Asian fellows that they used as soldiers to protect throughout colonial empire worldwide, while colonial master extracted wealth for century, and their territorial expansion into Myanmar through immigration/migration (rewards from master, by the way), which eventually ended up people of small homogeneous nation, paying ultimate price of tragedies! Google "Long Live Indochina - World Affairs - China Daily Forum" for my forum.
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did you guys spend alot of time in chiang mai while you were so close?
No, we didn't get to Thailand this time around. Since there was so much to see and do in Myanmar already, we decided to just focus our travels there.
love your vlog!
Thank you so much! If you're interested in watching more, we upload one every Sunday. :)
07:47 A little boy at railway collection rubbish.
thank you for taking us with you a little on this trip ^u^
Thank you for watching! We'll be showing you other places we went around the country too, so stay tuned! :)
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Hello. Good. 😘😘😘😘
I like you
Hii i live in myanmar yangon
Thanks for coming here.
Hey Michele..r u anglo Burmese?
Im visiting too . Verry soon,, i need to get my visa
I think I will Yangoon when dual pricing is abolished.
hello mingalarbar sist !!!!!!
Mingalarbar!
Thank you for making this but I dislike the music in the video, very badly chosen.
The music is not important it does not distract from the informative topic
Do most places charge a higher fee for foreigners?
Yes, they do. In fact, most of the places we showed in this video are free to locals. Of the places we went, locals only needed to pay for the ferry and City Circular Train, and the ferry ticket was much less for locals. I think the City Circular Train is the same for everyone at this point. Charging foreigners seems to be the way the country is trying to capitalize on increased tourism. Places that were previously free to all, now often have a fee for foreigners only and we'd say this trend is likely to increase as the tourism industry expands.
Notes of Nomads Thanks for your response :) What are your thoughts on this? I think charging foreigners higher fee isn't exactly promoting tourism even though the fee are minimal since most countries' currencies more than likely have higher value. This seems to be very common around Asia.
Yeah, it is common in Asia. It was certainly better to pay in the local currency rather than $US for the attractions we mentioned in this video. For example, the Shwedagon Pagoda was either 8,000 kyats or $8. With the current exchange rate, 8,000 kyats is about $5.80.
Many countries don't think they should charge locals to see their own national heritage, which we can understand, especially in places where charging may mean that a large proportion of the local population may not be able to afford to visit. We don't mind paying if it's not exorbitant and it goes towards maintenance and preservation of the places we are visiting, the salaries of local staff and stimulates the local economy. At the same time, there are some things that we think should probably just be the same for everybody. For example, taking the local ferry, or an otherwise free public park, where everyone is walking through freely and you are singled out to go to the ticket office.
We can understand why visitors may get annoyed or even upset by this. I guess we have just become accustomed to it, even if we don't always agree with it. We're not sure if it really has a negative impact on tourism since people seem to come anyway. As travellers, we hope to travel in a responsible way that also brings economic benefit to the people. If that means paying more sometimes, then so be it. But we also recognise that some of these payments don't necessarily trickle down to those we most want to support. So while there are some unavoidable fees to the authorities, we also try to support local people directly by our accommodation and service choices.
The locals are used to visit the religious places regularly and donate generously in order to preserve the Pagodas. Tourists just visit the place and almost none of the will donate some kyat. So I think it is more than normal for foreigners to pay an entrance fee. In the West we also have to pay for musea etc. We spend a lot of money for our trips, expensive lunches etc. So a small fee is no big deal.
not all countries in Asia, In the Philippines Foreign or local pays the same
Rangoon
What time of the year was this?
Hi Richard, this was in early May.
BAD AUDIO MIXING
The UN wanted to sanction this poor people.Wonderful
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ALSO
1:47 why
If there is really 27 metric tons of Gold leaf, then there is over $1 Billion in Gold?!?!
That can't be right can it?
I know it sounds crazy, but that's what they say. After seeing it and reading about its history, I actually don't doubt it.
Notes of Nomads I was just there, yup, big enough to have a $billion$ in gold on it.
Greg Wiens It's huge, right?!
Mirror UK:
Gang-raped, mutilated and forced to watch their babies killed: Traumatised Rohingya women who fled Myanmar horror share their stories
Dildar Begum, 30, says that one day the military came and opened fired on her village and stormed into her house. They took her husband out of the house and to the riverbank and shot him.
Then they came back into her house and grabbed Dildar's baby from her arms and stabbed him in the head. They killed another one of her children by cutting his throat, and another by beating her over the head with a rifle. She was then raped.
They then beat her and she pretended to be dead. When they left, they set her house on fire. Her 10 year old daughter, Nurkalima, was severely injured when the military beat her over the head with the blades of machetes, but she helped her mum crawl past the burning bodies of her children and out of the burning house.
For five days Dildar hid in the hills and when the military left, she went back to Tula Toli on her way to the Bangladesh border. All that was left of her village was smoke and ask where houses used to be.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gallery/gang-raped-mutilated-forced-watch-11649395
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প্রথমকাফ্রোসুন্দরীঅনা
অনন্যা
বিবাহ
Do NOT take the local ferry to Dalla! You will be ripped off at every turn by "guides", tut tut drivers and others.
Lon -g ? Lol no it’s called loong -gee though written lungi
HOAHOA
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রসুলমানেআল্লাহবিবাহকাকা
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রহিমbocomeহিন্দু
আফতাবbecomeমুনী
Its a boring place
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Mirror UK:
Gang-raped, mutilated and forced to watch their babies killed: Traumatised Rohingya women who fled Myanmar horror share their stories
Dildar Begum, 30, says that one day the military came and opened fired on her village and stormed into her house. They took her husband out of the house and to the riverbank and shot him.
Then they came back into her house and grabbed Dildar's baby from her arms and stabbed him in the head. They killed another one of her children by cutting his throat, and another by beating her over the head with a rifle. She was then raped.
They then beat her and she pretended to be dead. When they left, they set her house on fire. Her 10 year old daughter, Nurkalima, was severely injured when the military beat her over the head with the blades of machetes, but she helped her mum crawl past the burning bodies of her children and out of the burning house.
For five days Dildar hid in the hills and when the military left, she went back to Tula Toli on her way to the Bangladesh border. All that was left of her village was smoke and ask where houses used to be.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gallery/gang-raped-mutilated-forced-watch-11649395
The problem is already solved.