Burma Adventure Travel

travel. People take Burma adventure travel vacations for fun and entertainment and to get away from the stress of work and
the tedium of daily life. The desire to do something healthy or to add to one's self-image also may be motivating factors. Burma
adventure travel vacations often include all of these travel motivations, but thrill seeking plays a unique and important role.

The activities of Burma adventure travelers are as broad as the imagination allows. Virtually anything that is done outside conceivably might be part of an Burma adventure travel vacation.

Activities on land, like exploring the old temple and pagoda city of Bagan, where you get a feeling to be Indiana Jones , on water, like on a leg rower tour on Lake Inle, in the pristine waters of the Myeik or Mergui archipelago or in the air, like hot air ballooning in Bagan provide things to see and do for nature-based travelers.

Burma Ecotourism activities on your Burma adventure trip are often a combination of low impact outdoor recreation activities and intense educational experiences in natural history and ecology. Some ecotourism includes service projects designed to benefit the environment being visited.

Sometimes a distinction is made between "hard" and "soft" Burma adventure travel. Soft Burma adventure travel are those with low levels of risk usually sold by a tour operator to different kinds of groups. These Burma adventure travel are usually suitable for family involvement and offer an introduction to new and unique activities. Examples might be whitewater rafting or hot air ballooning with a commercial outfitter.

By contrast, hard Burma travel adventures require real skills in dangerous situations and the target is mostly climbing and trekking the Burma Himalayas. Participants usually join together because of an intense interest in some activity outside the confines of commercial interests. Examples might be a climb in the Burma Himalayas, rafting wild rivers of the Burma Himalayas or exploring the Myeik or Mergui archipelago in southern Burma.

From elephant trekking in the Burma jungle, camping on the Burma Islands, whitewater rafting in the Burma Himalayas, outdoor recreation activities are nearly numberless.

The idea of Burma adventure travel or Burma ecotourism vacations is certainly somehow romantic since in most places in Burma no foreigners have been there since British colonial times. Images of exotic locations, great weather, emerald waters of the Andaman Sea, liveaboard scuba diving trips cross the mind.

Burma's exotic locations are not so far away

and not difficult to get to. Due to the division in monsoon time and off monsoon time the weather in Burma is usually very predictable.

Extremes in cold, heat, and especially rain can bring discomfort and misery to many vacationers, but is very predictable due to the well known weather patterns in Burma. It is useful to make a good travel insurance since exciting activities can be turned by injury or sickness into tough situations.

Most Burma adventure travel activities require no specialized gear as you can see it in the pictures here. A good lightweight rucksack filled with what someone needs for the period of time, photo and video equipment are basics, let the Burma adventure travel agent do the rest, they know how to handle the Burma environment and you pay for it, they will take care of you. The only thing you should bring with you is a very good filled wallet and some basic good health conditions to make sure that you don't collapse after a few few hours trekking.

Actually on certain places like Kyaiktyio they even take care of this completely, if you cant handle to walk the steep road up to summit of the Kyaiktyio Pagoda Complex, they carry you up in the sedan. 4 guys usually do a good job to lift you up. it costs some money but you have a lot of fun, so what ?

A major issue in ecotourism, adventure holidays and adventure travel is that of sustainable development. Whether this relationship develops in a good way for everyone is a matter of debate, but the theory that nature-based tourism ought to be developed in a way so that the natural and cultural environment will endure is intuitively appealing.

In the rural and developing areas of Burma, nature-based tourism provide an important economic support. Burma adventure travel function many times as the only economic sector to get real cash to the people in this Burma regions. Since Burma Tourism is labor intensive and creates a high numbers of small businesses, it can be an excellent economic development tool. Rural and developing areas often contain the best settings for Burma adventure travel and Burma ecotourism.

The Burma tour operators and outdoor specialists for your adventure vacation are equally important to adventure travel and ecotourism operators' success. Specialized adventure skills and ecological knowledge such as whitewater rafting, bird watching, do the right trekking path.

All forms of nature-based Burma adventure travel and tourism are booming even beside all of this political problems brought in mainly by the US and England, that means -among others- Burma is a Credit Card free country only dollars and euro in cash are accepted, don't take other stuff with you, they don't want it or change it only to a very unfavorable exchange rate. The best is take lots of small dollar bills with you and before you travel upcountry go to the Bogyoke Market in Yangon to change enough dollars into kyats, you cant change money upcountry, unless for very unfavorable rates.

A good place to start your Burma adventure travel is Yangon (once called Rangoon), which assimilates you into Burma's every day life, one of this is no or very limited electricity.

Don't use the train unless you are a masochist. Some days in Yangon can acclimate you to the strange sights and sounds of  Burma and prepare you for your  Burma adventure travel. One thing you should know is that crimes against tourists are almost not existent. Taxi drivers are honest if you negotiate the price first and you can eat almost anything that's been cooked or peeled, have a overall look on the place if its a clean environment. If you go on a trekking tour over some days the tour operator will bring the necessary infrastructure including food with. Drink only bottled water and avoid ice. Listen to the the natives when they tell you shouldn't do certain things.

The best time to visit Burma is November through April, before the monsoons in June, July, August and September.

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