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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by peteretep on Thursday March 19, 2015 @11:39PM (#9236125)
Myanmar is nothing like North Korea. For a start, you can backpack around most of the cities unrestricted. Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, is just like any other South East Asian capital, and again, nothing like Pyongyang.
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by nemo on Friday March 20, 2015 @12:17AM (#9236200)
It's only relatively recently that travelers could visit Myanmar (legally). For a very long time it was very much like North Korea - a hermit kingdom ruled by a brutal military junta under international sanctions and completely dependent on China.
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by peteretep on Friday March 20, 2015 @01:16AM (#9236337) 

    > It's only relatively recently that travelers could visit
    > Myanmar (legally)
That is simply incorrect.
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by nemo on Friday March 20, 2015 @10:51AM (#9238038)
Yes, you're right. I was generalizing about Westerners, rather than all travel. I had been told that while in Thailand years ago, but apparently there were some (complicated) ways for Westerners to get visas in the past.
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by peteretep on Friday March 20, 2015 @07:58PM (#9241369)
It's not even really true about Westerners
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by dnial02 on Friday March 20, 2015 @02:42AM (#9236472)
Only if you're Westerner. South East Asian can enter Myanmar freely, but Myanmar is the only country that doesn't have free visa for other ASEAN country.
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Re:Burma's capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse s... by seanmcdirmid on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:15AM (#9236749)
Americans never had a problem with entering Myanmar. All you needed was a visa from the embassy in Beijing (you could probably get one at the consulate in Kunming also).
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