WW II Memorial Tour @ Battlefield Tour to Burma
 We, Myanmar Explorer, can arrange WW ( II ) Special
Pilgrimage Tour on request to see the fighting ground
such as Pinwe, Mogaung, Myitkyina in Kachin State, Kale,
Kalewa, Mawleik in Chin State, Ramree Island, Kyauk Phyu,
Taungup, Buthidaung, Akyab in Arakan State, Thanbyuzayat
war cemetery in Mon State, Htaukkyant war cemetery in
Rangoon (Yangon)etc.
War veterans, relatives & family members of the
ex-soldiers who faught against Japs during the WW (II )
in Burma (Myanmar) often come back to Myanmar to witness
"The Battlefield" and to pay homage to their beloved
one's grave.
Myanmar Explorer Tourism Service Company Limited can
arrange and provide tour service to obtain special
permit to visit these remote & restricted sites. Please
read our guests' recommendation as follow ;
Guests' Book
Dear Visitors,
Having just returned from Burma on a Pilgrimage of 26
days, visiting the war cemeteries in Rangoon, Taukkyan,
Thanbyuzayat and many of the Battlegrounds of the Burma
campaign including Magway, Prome, Taungup, Kalewa and
Ramree Island, crossing the Arakan Yoma and the Bay of
Bengal. The trip was arranged by Myanmar Explorer Tour
from Yangon.
If any of you are of a like mind, don't let age put
you off. Nancy (75) and I (83) suffered all the
hardships and there were many, and enjoyed every
thrilling adventure. Ploughing through mud and getting
bogged down, lying full length in a small SAMPAN at
night looking up at millions of stars in a clear sky, up
the chaung to Ramree Town.
We will send a full account of this "Adventure" to
DEKHO ! and may be they will print it.Putting everything
together for a trip like this entails a lot of work,
visas, a good guide, reliable local tour agency with
some "pull" in the right places as 90% of the places we
visited were forbidden zones to foreign visitors. We
required many Military Permits to go to these places,
but it was a lot of fun, a pre-occupation at some of the
Road Blocks and Check Points was "Why do you want to
come to such out of the way places ?"
Our passport were looked at with curiosity, but the
welcome in these places was so sincere and they treated
us like VIPs. None of them had seen Europeans before.
While we were on this trip, we placed crosses and
poppies for other DEKHO! readers on graves or columns at
various cemmteries including one on the landing place at
Ramree Island in memory of those who lost their lives
there.
Nancy Jeffery & Ken Hardy
155, Vicarage Lane, Stratford, London E 15 4 HJ. Tel :
020 8534 1479
Dear Aung ( Myanmar Explorer Tour ),
Thank you for your email. We eventually arrived home about 24 hours after we left the Summit Parkview hotel! There was a delay at Bangkok airport.
You asked for our comments on your company's service and our travels. Here they are:
The advice and assistance in planning our itinerary was excellent, as was your patience with all the emails! The organisation and subsequent delivery of the programme was faultless. Everything ran very smoothly. We would recommend your travel company to anyone, so please feel free to use us as a point of contact, for other clients.
I outline below more detailed feedback on our trip:
Yangon
Summit Parkview hotel: met our needs perfectly as a base to explore Yangon and as a transit hotel.
Guide: very good. Marvellous to talk to someone with such a vast experience of Myanmar's last few decades.
Driver: excellent and very professional.
Kyaikhto
Kyaikhto hotel: Excellent location. Terrible hotel.
Maulmein
Attran hotel: comfortable and ideal for our needs. No frills.
Phaan
Hotel Zwegabin: Excellent accommodation.
Mandalay
Hotel by the Red Canal: First night spent in room on side of hotel. Quite a spacious room, but dark and noisy with the road. Asked to move rooms as we were there for 4 nights. We were moved to a room overlooking the gardens and pool, with lots of light. It was a bit smaller but this didn't matter. We loved our stay in the hotel. The staff were charming and helpful and the internet was free!
Guide: Very energetic and enthusiastic. Worked very hard to ensure that we experienced the real Mandalay.
Drivers: Very good.
Bagan
Hotel @ Tharabar Gate: Very good. Breakfasts were excellent. Perfect location.
Guide: Lacked enthusiasm and energy. Rather disappointing.
Driver: Good.
Mount Popa
Mount Popa Resort: Wonderful room with a view and a 4 poster bed! Good evening meal.
Inle Lake
Hotel Amazing Nyaung Shwe: Very good hotel and excellent location. We were very pleased not to have stayed in a hotel on the lake.
Guide: He was the best guide of the trip. His command of English was excellent and was flexible in meeting our needs. (We didn't want to go and see the long necked women)
Drivers: very good
Kalaw
Amara Resort: Lovely hotel. There was a real log fire in the bedroom! We wished we had spent at least another night there, to enjoy the hotel and explore Kalaw.
Sittwe
Nobel Hotel: Small, clean rooms but very noisy from generator. Helpful staff, but breakfasts were an interesting experience! (Still, we weren't expecting a 5 star hotel!) We would recommend only 1 night in Sittwe if possible.
Guide: Enthusiastic but inexperienced. Often did not understand what we said. But he was very willing and keen to please, and will become a very good guide.
Driver/boatmen: very good
Mrauk U
Hotel Nawarat: Very good. Very helpful staff. Excellent location.
We kept to 95% of planned itinerary, all of which was both enjoyable and interesting. We would recommend this itinerary to fellow travellers.
I hope this feedback is helpful to you.
Kind regards
Paul and Sarah
paultlatter@yahoo.co.uk
Hi
Thank you very much for everything, good arrangement.
I suppose write a email to thank you earlier but very busy with new urgent projects.
I & my friends will come again next round to visit Inle Lake & Bago, the Golden Rock. Hope to meet you next round.
Btw, I am also an partime trip organizer. I may need your services again.
Recently, I & friends are just setting up a small budget hostel & mini cafe in KL - "The Bodhi Lodge". We are still working on the Website - bodhilodge.com & Leaflet.
Best Regards
Thuan
Hi Aung
We have returned home and I would like to tell you that we have appreciated our trip to Myanmar. You had everything well organised in a very professional way. We can make only one observation: the Inle Lake hotel was below standard.
I have told my travel agent that they should contact you if they have clients to visit Myanmar.
For your background information I travel about 150’000 airmiles per year and Myanmar was my 105th country to visit, hence I know what I am talking about when it comes to travelling
Best regards
Ralph
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