View Point 2, compatible with the name, may be said a centrally standing hotel, located on the border line between Kalaw, well known as fir town, and Aungban, well known as commercial town.
So it is at the meeting point of the two towns, beside the Kalaw-Aungban road near the signboard of Aungban. It is a four-story building and each bedroom comes with a balcony overlooking the beautiful scenery.
Guests can hold parties with family and friends in the Sky Bar and also celebrate fire party in the hotel’s park.
It provides 21 rooms. Deluxe Double room with balcony, railroad view and garden view is priced at 35000 K per night, Deluxe Triple room with these services is priced at 50000 K and Family Suite is 55000 K. Each room includes safety box, a mini bar, a closet and all the room stuffs are used of quality products. And also KTV room is served. As Kalaw-Aungban railway is beside the hotel, running train sounds can be heard from the rooms.
The hotel restaurant offers Chinese foods and hot pot, Solomon head recipes, fish stick recipes made of fish imported from Vietnam, and there not only hotel guests also outsiders can enjoy the tasty meals. Spa service is available. Near the hotel compound is organic field with trees like mango, banana and mangium, intending for guests.
So to enjoy beautiful scenery, to taste delicious meals and to get an unforgettable moment in life, do come to and stay in View Point 2 hotel.
Chaungtha can be said a meeting point local guests frequently come visit to. Being a beach nearest to Yangon and one where fresh sea foods are available, it occupies guests all round the year. Travelers to the beach can choose various hotels to stay in.
Among them, ‘Golden Beach’ hotel is recommended. Built on two acres land and aged nearly two decades, the hotel provides 102 rooms — 12 sea view bungalows, 3 second sea view bungalows, 4 four-bedroom bungalows, 1 six-bedroom bungalow, 2 two-story buildings and 1 three-story building. Room prices are ; MMK 110000 for sea view rooms, MMK 99000 for second sea view room and MMK 77000 for garden view room. But during the wet season, the prices are 88000, 77000 and 55000 respectively.
Landscape is mainly emphasized. Parking lots are managed for guests can park their car near the room they’re staying.
The hotel provides gym, swimming pool, recreation park, mini golf course, billiard table, bar, restaurant, and 24-hour spa. Besides breakfast, it serves tea time and buffet dinner as best service among other hotels. It is about four years that this service has been in providence and it gets good feedbacks from guests.
As guests to the beach are different — some long for relaxation at seaside enjoying seafoods while some would like just staying in hotel, the hotel is always trying to offer best services to its guests. Providing a variety of sorts of services just in the hotel is an advantage of it. The restaurant comes with Indian, Chinese and Myanmar foods, and room service is also available. Member cards offering 10% discount are given to the frequent stayers as gifts.
So the ‘Golden Beach’ hotel is guided from this month hotel guide to those who wish to take a relaxation in Chaungtha.
U Thein Htway, member of tourism development committee ( Nay Pyi Taw), said they have planned to initiate community based tourism (CBT) in Nay Pyi Taw.
Paung Laung near Nantmongyi waterfall and Kayan village, between Pyinmana and Lewe, have been earmarked to. Kayan races are living in this village and Union of Myanmar Travel Association (UMTA), Nay Pyi taw , has submitted to the committee to make CBT in the village.
“To make CBT in Nay Pyi Taw, Kayan village should be as it is a place where travelers can enjoy traditional beauties of the ethnic group and taste traditional foods. It will be a new place where visitors can take trekking, hiking and also scenery is very nice. So the village has possibility to be made for CBT. “
And though Paung Laung is in the boundary of Shan state, it is very close to Nay Pyi taw so UMTA has got the allowance to manage Nay Pyi taw based CBT in this new town. Currently, places like Congressional building, Uppatasanti Pagoda, and Buddha Gaya are majorly visited in Naypyitaw and that is why new tour sites are being explored.
It is not a dream anymore to travel worldwide unlike before that it was hard to even go to neighboring countries. Now chances are in hand to tour everywhere — to Mekong river countries or Asian or European countries? There are many tours being sold by tour companies in Myanmar. Those who have a regular income can take international tours as desired with installment loans in connection with a bank.
To meet Gods or Goddesses, Egypt tour sold by Myanmar Fantastic Travel and Tours can now be taken in installment payments.
You can explore 40000-year-old Great Sphinx pyramid with the body of a lion and the face of a human, Egyptian Museum displaying 120000 items of Egyptian antiquities, the world’s biggest Aswan High Dam and Lake Nasser riding in the first class of night train, Philae temple riding on five-star luxury cruise ship staring the images of legend, splendid Temple of Kom Ombo, architectures of the Temple of Horus at Defu, the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, Hatshepsut temple with mummies. Not only that, you can take many pictures on Hurghada Beach. It is 9 days and 8 nights tour with $1990 per person in six-month or twelve-month installment loans.
Kalaw is a town that will never become commonplace for its visitors and that is always lovely. Having a wide variety of places to visit and a year-round cooling weather makes the small town a mostly visited place. Hearing the name ‘Kalaw’, a view of a collection of colonial era buildings will appear on one’s mind’s eye, and you can take a heritage walk to explore these 100-year-old buildings.
Standing several nice-to-stay hotels there adds more interests to visitors to come. Among them, what that causes the charm town much prominent is the Kalaw Heritage, an oldest hotel in it, since 1903. What to be acclaimed is that hotel’s buildings, interior designs, and room structures have been under keeping as they were in the colonial era, setting it to have the atmosphere of the era. Second to ‘Strand Hotel, Yangon’ in age, the hotel is deliberately visited by those who love colonial period’s buildings and ancient artworks.
Due to the fact that the hotel is very beautiful and because of its aged buildings, it becomes a movie site to where even outsiders often come and take photos and is also a tourist attraction.
PINE
The name of the reception-included two storey building is ‘PINE’, built in 1906. It provides 12 rooms upstairs — 8 Delux rooms and 4 Heritage Suites. Suite rooms stand at edges possessing stunning window view of mountain scenery and are the best ones to get pleasures from natural beauties. Occasionally, German author Jan Phillip Sendker intentionally comes and takes a long stay in one of these two rooms. Each Delux room is priced at MMK 115000 per night for local guests and at $ 120 for foreign guests. And Suite rooms, MMK 140000 and $165 for local and foreign guests respectively. Downstairs of PINE includes Heritage Bar, Sisson’s restaurant and gift shop.
ACORN
Older one in the two colonial buildings, constructed in 1903. No revapment has been made to the building, keeping it the same as it was built. Especially foreign guests prefer the building and usually stay by prebooking. 15 Superior rooms are housed, each priced at $100 for foreign guests and at MMK 90000 for local guests.
TUDOR
Latterly built two story building that has not turned hundred . This white building features 18 Classic rooms each with the price of MMK 6500 for local guests and $ 75 for foreigners.
The three buildings — PINE, ACORN and Tudor — provide 45 rooms in total. All the rooms are embellished in Europe style, giving guests a feeling as if they are in a West’s hotel and a breath of colonial period. Not every room comes with an air-conditioner but with old-fashioned ceiling fan. Sisson’s restaurant serves breakfast and dinner to guests with delicious West, Myanmar and Chinese foods. Not only the hotel’s guests, even outsiders often come and have breakfast in the restaurant. Heritage Bar next to the restaurant is decorated with antique farmhouses and it is here where you can have coffee or chooseable and reasonably priced cocktails. In front of the bar is gift shop to buy souvenirs.
LOVER’S TREE
There is one more attractive place in the hotel’s compound, ‘Lover’ s tree’ , a pair of conifer and banyan trees aged over hundred years. No guest, local or foreign, would come back home without taking a photo with the trees.
So, for those who long for getting a feeling of colonial period and who want to cerenly stay in a proper place, Kalaw Heritage hotel is the finest to fulfill your needs.
Indonesia is a country with more than seventeen thousands islands. Among them, Java island is the most famous one.
Borobudur — the world’s biggest Buddhist temple in Yogyakarta in central Java — is the historical heritage most tourists come visit to with lots of interests. The temple, dating from 8th and 9th centuries, shows the prominence of Buddhism in the country.
It was built in three tires: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone with three circular platforms and a monumental stupa at the top. The walls and balustrades are decorated with fine low reliefs, covering a total surface area of 2500 square meters. Around the circular platforms are 72 openwork stupas, each containing a statue of Buddha. It is 115 ft in height from base to top.
Existing of religious buildings of Hinduism and Buddhism is a mark showing peace between the two religions. The monument was restored with UNESCO’s help in the 1970s. At present, Indonesia government keeps maintaining not to extinct the artworks of the temple.
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism(MOHT) and Union of Myanmar Travel Association(UMTA) responded to Mr. Brandon Thompson — a guest contributor at Travel Weekly Asia, whose article in the Travel Weekly Asia journal distributed the recent ATF 2019 held in Vietnam, had ranked Myanmar as 4th of top 5 most dangerous countries in APAC region in 2019 — to come and visit Myanmar in person and write after seeing the actual situation.
Brandon Thompson is the Managing Director of a global security consultancy firm “Drum Cussac”. U Hla Myint, the Director at the Department of Regional and International Cooperation (Hotels & Tourism), said to Travelling Journal, ” Myanmar is peaceful and safe. Guest entry this year is more than last year. We responded to him to come to Myanmar for learning more instead of writing untrue facts”.
U Hla Myint said he had explained to International media at ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF 2019), that the author of the article is just aiming to discredit Myanmar with uncollaborated data. Also U Hla Myint added, “UMTA emailed Mr. Thompson with some questions — from where did he get the data? who were his sources? can they be reliable to make an assessment?” This baseless news article had saddened and displeased Myanmar people and all stakeholders in tourism field. Lan Jarrett Not Lan, editor-at-large of Travel Weekly Asia, apologized for it and replied that they will listen to what we said and follow up with some suggestions, said U Thet Lwin Toh, Chairman of UMTA.
Top 5 most dangerous countries in APAC 2019, according to Travel Weekly Asia issued by Singapore-based Northstar Travel Group; (1) Afghanistan (2) Pakistan (3) Papua New Guinea (4) Myanmar (5) Bangladesh.
‘Grand Andaman’, a five star hotel, is located in the Myanmar Territorial Waters, Southern Myanmar. It is just the one in Myanmar that has casino. Many guests especially from Thailand come in for playing casino.
Two quaysides — one for speedboats from Kaukthaung and another from
Yanaung — are served by the hotel.
Guideboards alongside the clean walkways are also written in Thai. A gate has to be passed before the arrival of the hotel. In this gate, Thailand Immigration Office is set aiming the guests get an easy visit to Yanaung, a Thailand’s city bordering in part with Tanin-thar-yi region.Also serviced buses for guests are in this gate and it takes a short while to the hotel.
In the hotel, while waiting at the reception for room’s key, a stage — performing music in front of the reception — can be enjoyed together with drinks. Next to the reception is the guest-rest room. Across the Andaman Sea, take a short ride by a speedboat from the hotel to visit Kaukthaung district in Tanin-thar-yi region — well-known with its most stunning untouched natural islands.
Among the famous islands in the Andaman Sea, the Cock Comb island is made as a tourism place, mutually beneficial cooperation by ‘Grand Andaman Hotel’ and the government.’
The casino room of the hotel is wide. Moreover, don’t get a worry about shopping, just within the hotel!
While in the hotel, can do activities like trekking and diving. Room prices are as the guests’ choice, $150-400 for one night.
So, to be suggested, make a sure visit to the Cock Comb island, where ‘Grand Andaman Hotel’ with its best services and perfect beauties will make you feel complete.
TravellingJournal/Vol – 1 Issue – 3/Photo Grand Andaman
Shan State Department of Hotels & Tourism is going to raise tourisms in Golden Triangle Zone, eastern Shan State. In relation with the recent finished event (rescuing all 12 boys and their football coach who were trapped in a cave of northern Thailand),Tazar Min, an official of the branch office in Tarchileik, submitted to raise tourisms in eastern Shan State.
For visitors from Thailand and others, the active government have permitted three routes to the zone.
The three routes are: Tarchileik-Wunpon-Maiphone Monastery-Paradise Hotel (in the zone), Tarchileik-Tarlae-Parchoe-Kyeiklatt, and from along the Mekong river of Myanmar-Thailand border to Keng Tung.
A peaceful place among cool hills, that staring cloud sea, that concentrated of beauties, that got the essence of tranquillity and inspired of quiets…..
I made a visit to the place. For me who always had ever seen sea scenes before, everything was different. Fir-trees, snow-covered hills and all sights seeing from my room were very romantic and just like a classic painting.
It is ‘Myat-saytaman Traditional Bamboo house’, one of the beauty spots in south Shan State. No one would imagine that there is such a place among several hills far away from the city.
However rough the road is, all the tiredness got along the trip will be driven out in the bosom of ‘Myat-saytaman’ with cute and naturally designed traditional bamboo houses. Not much electrical appliances are there as the place is aided for ecotourism.
And undisturbed natural scenes are the wants of photographers.
If you want to make a trip into the place in your own plan, take a go to Cherry highway station that in the town Aung-pan, South Shan State, and continue to the place by a car or cycle. But if your arrival is in morning only cycle is available.
Please keep in mind not to forget to pack more than a warmer to withstand icy wind. Despite that, don’t worry because ‘Myat-saytaman’ will be welcoming you with hot and yummy ‘Shan noodle’. And also bamboo houses will give you a warm. Fresh air mixing fragrance of fir-tree can freshen your tiredness up.
The place is between Hti-thain and Kyauksu, Pa-ai traditional villages located aside Aungpann-Inntain road. Bed rooms are available for one, for two and for a family and may cost from 15000 ks (about $11) to 60000 ks (about $45). Breakfast serviced by the hotel is Shan-rice and Soon-ton soup very fit in with the cold season. For dinner is as you wish. Moreover, something pleasant to you is ‘Meetauk’ drink (very strong drink) and baked banana, traditional foods.
While in Myat-Saytaman, you can visit into the ancient Shwe-inn-tain pagoda by a car or cycle. The famous pagoda with over 1,000 ancient pagodas had been respectfully constructed by the King Siridahmasawka over AB(Anno Buddha) 200. Then from it, continue to the Phaung-taw-oo pagoda just in 25 minutes by motorboat.
So one day if you will be in Aung-pann or in Kalaw, and you have a usual feeling of staying in high-end hotels, and have a taste for trekking, don’t miss that ‘Myat-saytaman’ is warmly welcoming you.
U Myint Sein, the director-general of hotel & tourism, said to the ‘Travelling’ journal that based on the Nat-Yae-Kan mountain in the Magway region, Community Based Tourism (CBT) will focus on ‘organic farming’ to attract tourists. On the mountain, cool and fresh air and edible plants not using chemical fertilizers may be the tourist attraction.
Myint Sein also said “The mountain possesses rich soil that lemon, banana, sweet-pepper and many other edible plants can be planted by organic system. Because of this we will cooperate with the department concerned to become the mountain an organic farming place to visit.”
CBT will be operated by the mountain villages Myae Lat, Bone Ball, Soon Tat, Goat Gyi and the project has been reported to the region’s government.
Moreover, the strangeness of Nat-Yae- Kan travel is that visitors can not only enjoy the fresh air in green plants but also study literature, culture and traditional habits of the ethnic groups, Acho Chin. Currently a survey for CBT site is running. There are very few visitors as an official tour but have some local visitors.
“A law must be confirmed for foreigners visiting. As the Air Defence Force is on the mountain, foreigners must be ruled not to go there” Myint Sein added.
The mountain has a height of 3500 ft. and is located on the Ean valley road directed to Rhakhine state. From the Magway, it can be got through Min Boo-Pathein road.
U Tin Hlaing, the director of the tourism ‘Road to Myauk Oo’, says foreigners visiting to Myauk Oo are more interested on ‘bike tour’. Among the new programmes to serve the foreign travellers for long-term visit, ‘bike tour’ is as successful as they expect. “Last season, travellers were in decrease to two-third. In new programmes, ‘bike tour’ programme can be said rather good”, Tin Hlaing noted.
Currently, tourisms to Myauk Oo offer a regular service for the travellers. Bike path is directed from Myauk Oo to betel fields.
“New tour programmes and new bike paths have been planned. Travellers can bike from this town to near villages, Nataung, Chin and get back during a single day. At least 2-3 days and at most 7-8 days package tours can be planned but 4-5 days package is mostly used. We are planning the new programmes for next year and new bike-paths will be offered” Tin Hlaing added.
European travellers have more interest to tour in Myauk Oo than before. Normally, a day is enough to tour in the town but for the travellers who want long-term visit the new services are offered.
In addition to Myauk Oo, European travellers also have an interest to tour Kyien Tone, Tar Chi Late, Thi Paul and Kalaw.
