Visiting Myanmar

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Full Article – U.N. Envoy Tries to Ease Tensions in Myanmar

U.N. Envoy Tries to Ease Tensions in Myanmar
By SETH MYDANS

BANGKOK, Sept. 30 — A United Nations envoy to Myanmar met Sunday with the detained opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and with several members of the military junta that last week crushed a peaceful pro-democracy uprising, the United Nations said.

The envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, spent more than an hour at a government guesthouse in the main city, Yangon, with Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years. He spent Saturday and Sunday nights in the administrative capital, Naypyidaw, 200 miles north of Yangon, where he met with government officials but not the top two leaders.

Continued on nytimes.com

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The 2007 protests in Myanmar and the subsequent Myanmar cyclone disaster have people asking “is it safe to visit Myanmar?”

Yangon and many parts of the country were devastated by Cyclone Nargis.

The Myanmar ruling junta has clamped down on visits by foreign aid workers in the wake of protests and the cyclone.

As such, visitors should take some degree of precaution before traveling to Myanmar.

With much of the country in tatters after the cyclone, people visiting Myanmar for tourism purposes should make sure that the places they want to visit in Myanmar are no longer affected.

Before visiting Myanmar, it is always a good idea to check your government’s travel advisory website (U.S. State Department, etc) to see what safety precautions for Myanmar are advised.