New members of the Myanmar forum, introduce yourself here

Hi,
I'm from Yangon, Myanmar.
Nice to meet you all.
If you need help, I'll try to help you.

Hi Everyone

I am Hazel, I have just arrived in Yangon and stay for 2 years. I would like to meet new friends for socialising, language learning. I live near to downtown. please get in touch. Thanks

hi guys, i newly landed in yangon. just drop a line to say hi to all members here and wish to meet up with u for coffee over the weekend ... feel free buzz me at ***
btw, im from malaysia

Hi, Hazel
Welcome to Myanmar. I am a newbie here too, just stay for 3 months.

HI Wesley,,

About to move to Yangon. May be we can meet.

Hello Everybody,

I m Tu Van, just move to Yangon in Jun 2015 and may stay here for a year. It's nice to know all of you!

Best Regards,

Tu Van

Hello everyone, my name is Todd and I was born in The Staes.... I AM NOT A PATRIOT. At the age of 49, alone, knowing no one and having never been outside the U.S. I flew to SE Asia and spent the next 6 months backpacking through Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. To say my life was forever transformed would be the understatement of the millennium! Well it's been almost 4 years and I've saved a little money and I am feeling that longing(actually I felt the longing before I even left) for SE Asia.So next April 1st or earlier I'll be flying back to Bangkok/Chiang Mai/Yangon for Thingyan for about a week. Then travel around India and Nepal ending up back in Yangon hopefully to find a job teaching English. I taught English in Bangkok in 2012 and LOVED it.
Hoping housing isn't going to be too expensive. Would like to live totally off what I'm making as a teacher, I can live very simply. If it ends of being too expensive then off to Chiang Mai, Cambodia(yes I know the teaching jobs suck.... so I've read), or HCMC, VN.
Any comments or suggesting would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx, todd

Hi.. nice to see yr reply. I will be there on August.

For what I know the rental is very expensive.

Mingalapar to everyone
I'm from Italy and I'll move to myanmar the 29th of August. I've already been there with my university in March to conduct research about tourism. As I got in love with this country I decided to write my thesis about Bagan. So I'll pass the first five days in yangon, then Bagan for one month and then yangon again as I'm planning to do an internship (still planning) there.

Ready to make new friends

No substantive comment, Todd, other than that my escape from the States for a SEAsia experience parallels your own in very many ways! It has been exceptional in all respects! I hope to return very, very soon after an injury from a scooter accident in SaPa heals. Good luck to you as you continue your own enriching adventure. I get it.

Hi
My name is Malcolm. I am originally from England but as I have spent so long in Australia, I count myself as Australian.
I have been in Myanmar for seven months as a self funded volunteer English teacher. I have just finished a two month teaching assignment in Kyonpyaw and I am looking for another challenge.
I would prefer teaching in a Monastery school as I would like to learn to meditate.
I will soon leave for Thailand for a visa run and will have a six month visa on my return.
Can anyone out there give me any feedback to help me relocate myself in somewhere interesting. Remote is good.
Glad to be aboard.
Malcolm

Hello All,

I m Tu Van, Vietnamese. I just moved to Yangon for a month and will be here for a year as expat. It's nice to know you all here and would much appreciate if we can share some experience of living in Myanmar.

Thanks.

Tu Van

Hi,

Nice to know with you and welcome Myanmar.
Glad to know that you love Myanmar. Keep in touch.

Florence
RGN

I am a retired American lawyer with over four years of experience teaching English and business in China in high schools and universities.  I would like to now teach in Myanmar.  Any job leads would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Gerry

Dear Mr.Gerry,

Nice to meet you and welcome to Myanmar.
If I have a chance, I would love to talk with you and learn English from you.

Yours,
Florence
RGN

Hi Tu Van,

Nice to meet you!
I'm from RGN, too and welcome to Myanmar.

If I have a chance, I would love to talk with you and share our experience each other.
I'm working in Qatar Airways Cargo.

You can share what you found and can ask me if you need any assistance.

Yours,
Florence
RGN

Hi I am Tony, a Filipino Expat. I wish to visit Myanmar in the near future. I am currently working here in Bangladesh in one big garment manufacturing company. Any suggestion for good places to visit?..Thanks!

Hi Khin Khin,

Nice to know you! Hope can meet up you soon! Currently I m traveling and will contact you once I m back to Yangon.

Regards,

Tu Van

Dear Expats,

my name is Bernd, I'm from Germany and I came to Yangon in April 2015. I will stay up to December and then maybe move to new missions in other countries.

Because I am only for 9 months here it did not make sense for m to rent an apartment. So I decided to go to a hotel. After inspecting some I decided for

ASAHI Hotel in Tarmwe, Yangon.

The manger offered a good rate for a long term stay, and so I have a nice room for about 1,000 US $ which is pretty good, if you compare to apartment rents. In the evening all is done, when I come home. No washing, cleaning etc. . . . and the breakfast is also included. The rooms are nice and clean, and you have free WiFi. You have AC, TV, minibar . . . what else can you expect.

There is a restaurant in the hotel which offers a nice menu 24/7 as well and staff is very kind. I feel very well there.

The phone number is 0095 1 8604420, the email address asahihotelyangon@gmail.com

Once you are here for some weeks or months you might want to explore the country.

Here is the address of a travel agency with whom I made a 4 days trip to Bagan. The trip was perfect, the conditions were fair and the manager took personally care for me as the only foreigner, and all that for a favorable price.

Check it out.

It is UPI Unique  Paragon Int'l Travel and Tour Co. Ltd.
Tel Nr. 0095 9 254314810 Manager Mrs. Yin Yin
Their office is in  No331, 6A, Strand Road, Ahlone Tsp. Yangon
email addres: sale@upitravelmyanmar.com
website www.upitravelmyanmar.com

Here are some more phone numbers of them: 0095 1 2300 146, 0095 9 7320 9936 and 0095 9 7320 1648
You can refer to Mr. Bernd from Germany. They know me. I will do my second trip with them in September now.

So, I hope I could give two valuable hints.

Maybe I will see you, you or you some day :-)

Bernd

Hi Mr. Bernd,

Thanks for your valuable information. I am planing to visit Bagan next month. It so useful to me.

Hoai Thuong.

Hello,

if you book with UPI please let me know your impression. I was very pleased when I travelled with them.

Best regards,

Bernd

Hi Mr. Bernd,

Very informative and interesting, I will keep and refer this travel agency to my wife for her future reference as well.

In case it crosses your mind travelling to Philippines and acquired a different experience in some tourist spots in the country, my wife is just started a travel agency and she definitely will be glad to hear your travel experience like this and pick up some valuable tips as well.

With your permission, I am enclosing here the FB link of her travel agency in the Philippines : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Corban-T … 3741584456 . You may also reach her to corbantravelandtours[at]gmail.com.

Happy safe travel!

Thank you.
Tony
 

good idea . . . thx

Bernd

Hi All expat,

I'm from Philippines, currently here in Yangon for about 8 months . Trying to
Meet especially my Kabayans . So far
Exploring Myanmar . Hope to have friends from here .
Thanks

thanks a lot Mr. Tony

Hi All,

Good Afternoon. I am biswajeet from India, I got a offer from Myanmar Company Consumer Goods Myanmar. And next month that is on sept 15th is my joining date.

I am very much excited to know about Myanmar culture.

Friends please guide me how safe is Myanmar and how about the cost of living over there? Because my salary package is not that much high, 1100 US $ and they providing Accommodation.

Is that sufficient to survive there and also saving?

Thank you so much and i am waiting for some response.

Hi,

for my feeling Myanmar is pretty safe, and whether 1100 $ are sufficient or not - I think they are, if accommodation is provided.

If you can make savings depends on your lifestyle and if you are alone or not. At least you will survive.

Let's see what others will post here.

Thanks for the reply Bernd Welthungerhilfe 

Yes they providing accommodation plus 1100 US$. The only thing is I need to bear Food cost.

Can you tell me how much it will cost for food in every month?

Hello again,

I am not the right person to answer that question because I am a German Expat and I eat maybe different to locals. I live in a hotel, and so I pay more for a dinner for example like a Myanmari person.

I was told by my local colleagues that 150 to 200 $ would be sufficient if you buy from the market and cook by yourself, but if you buy from restaurants, you need more.

I can't confirm that because in the hotel I can't prepare food by myself.

Hope that helps, but we need postings from others as well.

Bernd

Hi ..my name is phyoe sandar.
Nice to meet u all.

Hi friends,

I am Jeet from India. And planning to move Myanmar Yangon next month

Hi All
I am from Malaysia and will going to Myanmar soon also.

CH

Hi
     My name is John from Singapore. I am an Indian by race as well.  Just came back from Yangon few days ago. I was there setting up my new spa.  In the event accommodation is provided, your salary scale is amounting to those hotel manager's pay, which is sufficient.
  The food here is relatively closely link to Indian way of cooking with spices etc and price are reasonable except for Hotel food, which are relatively expensive and not tasty !
   Is a beautiful country, beautiful people and culture. It's better than India, in my humble opinion

Hi what are you doing in Myanmar ?  You are local ?

Food on average cost 1 USD in simple eat out. Clean Guest house with breakfast cost 30 USD per day  with aircon

@dalvisha > to whom are you addressing your message?

I would also like to remind everyone that this topic is for the introduction of new members of the Myanmar forum. If you have any questions, please start a new topic on the Myanmar forum.

Thank you.

Hi,
I am an Indian Qualified Lawyer with almost 5 years of experience in the Corporate Legal Sector.
In terms of education, I did my graduation from a premier Indian institute, ILS Law College, which is Pune, Maharashtra, India, followed with a post graduation from Durham University, United Kingdom.
I am currently looking to work as an expat in myanmar, my reason to come to Myanmar is that  Myanmar is developing quite a bit and at a rapid speed. A lot of telecom companies are eyeing at Myanmar for expansion and the Legal IT industry always interests me.
Look forward to exploring opportunities in Myanmar. 
Regards,
Nikhil

Dear Sir/Madam,

During a recent trip to Myanmar I have noticed that the Myanmar tourism branch is booming. However, the level of knowledge about hotel and catering management, and the level of knowledge of English could be improved. I have been teaching hotel and catering management for 24 years and for the last 5 years I have been working as an English language teacher. I wonder if there are opportunities for me to work in Myanmar? 

Yours sincerely,

Martien de Graaf

Hi there ExpatBlog,

I'm a 33 year old British male, currently residing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I'm considering making a move to Myanmar in the next year, and am doing some research and looking for contacts.

I visited Yangon and Mandalay way back in 2007 for a week or two, and was fascinated. Cambodia was to be my next home, but i'm now ready for a change after nearly 8 years.

I'd be keen to find out about employment opportunities and work permit requirements, any triathlon groups or clubs or keen road cyclists who ride regularly, gyms, pools, running routes, races.....

If you have any questions about Cambodia, please ask! Thanks for any assistance.

Regards,

Nick