welcome to myanmar

We arrived in Mandalay with Bangkok Airways which will be now one of my favourite airlines. On a 1,5 h our flight they served hot meal and the flight attendents where going back and forth asking if you want more wine at all times. As our phones got stolen on Full Moon Party we needed to buy some Asian shit called "Imobile Istyle" in MBK in Bangkok but we didnt have any other simcard then Thai so we decided to buy at the airport also Myanmar simcard with week of internet for 6500 kyatt.

1usd = 1300kyatt

We exchanged part of the money at the airport. The rate was not bad and its not that easy to find a "money changer" or working ATM. Even in the tourist places like Bagan they told us in one of them that they only have 1000 kyatt bancnotes which would mean carrying a pile of cash. Also it took us 1h to find ATM in Mandalay as most of them were "out of service".

Airport is located around 45 km from city center so it takes app 1 h to get there. Private taxi costs 12000 while if you have time to wait for a shared taxi you will pay 4000 per person. We took a shared taxi directly to one of Mandalay bus stations from which minibuses to Bagan are leaving. We took one of the last minibuses leaving Mandalay at 5 for which we paid 9000 per person. There was one stop on the way for dinner aroung 8 which is not included in the price as it happens in Laos sometimes. The road was supposed to take 4h but in the end we arrived after 10. But most probably because it was late we avoided paying 20usd Bagan temples entrance fee which was quite lucky.

basic prices:

300 bottled water

700 draft beer in a pub (sometimes pretty bad)

1000 small beer in a shop

depending on restaurant quality:
1500 small beer in a better restaurant
1500-2000 big beer in a local restaurant

1700-1800 1l bottle of myanmar rum, 1000 - coca cola

700 glass of local wine in a restaurant

700-800 cigarettes (Luckies)

5000 hand made cigarettes in Inle Lake factory

800-1000 cookies, 100 chips, 100-200 snacks like samosa, 200 banana

600 banana pancakes, 700 omelet

300-400 myanmar tea

500 bamboo juice, 1000 coconut, 1500 avocado lassi

3000 George Orwell's book "Burmese days" in one of the temples

2500 shorts

10000 typical myanmar neckless

500-1000 soup

1000-2000 dinner fried rice chicken, nuddles

1000-1500 tofu, tealeaf, avocado salad

200 toilet

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