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Before you plan your trips in Myanmar, please get in touch with the nearest Myanmar Embassy as visa requiments and rules are changing every once in a while. List of Myanmar Embassies around the world are list in our Embassy Section.

All foreigner must hold valid visa before they can enter into the country. For more information on obtaning visa, please go to our visa section.

By plane

Getting to Yangon

Myanmar Airway Internatial (www.maiair.com) is the national airway and operate a few regional routes, mainly to Thailand and Singapore. Bangkok is the most popular place to catch a flight to thailand if you are on mult-country tours. Even if you are flying stright to Burma, you will still need to stop over in Bangkok, Singapore or Kuala Lumpur as there is virtually no direct long haul flights to/from Yangon Int Airport.

Yangon Int Airport is the only airport that International Flights can land and on arrival visa is issued at the airport. There is a 10USD per person for airport tax on your departure from the country.

Flying to Bagan

You can fly to Bagan with MAI (www.maiair.com), Air Bagan, Air Mandalay (www.airmandalay.com) and Yangon Airway (www.yangonair.com). Take flights from Yangon Int Airport to Nyaung Oo Airport which is 7 miles from Bagan. Some of these airlines have daily flights and usually costs about 60USD for 30 mins flight.

By Buses

You can take bus to Bagan from Yangon, Mandalay and other cities. Fares are quite cheap compare to the flights. They usually cost about USD 15 from Yangon to Bagan.