Everything is fine in BKK. Tomorrow morning I am going to leave in direction of Yangoon/Myanmar by plane. Looking forward to it very much.
I decided to give updates around my trip from now no only via twitter (http://www.twitter.com/sugarmelon) and on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546331583).
Just register there for getting in contact with me or reading my latet messages.
Last Friday I received my visum for Myanmar by post. Everything went smoothly - perfect. The visa itself consits out of a entry and stamp in my passport and three Din-A4-pages with entry- and exit-data on it.
At the moment I am worried about the situation in Thailand and Bangkok. As I am arriving in BKK on Saturday around 1 PM I planned going directly to BKK in the afternoon. My flight to Myanmar is leaving next morning Sunday at 8 AM. Todays news are telling me, that the situation has de-escalated - I am going to get in contact with other travellers to check the situation.
The next days I am packing my backpack and things.
I have to change some EUR into US-$, as there are no ATMs in Myanmar to get cash. There is also no possibility to get money with my visa-card or cash-card at a bank-office as far as I read.
I am very excited now - there are still three days left. On Friday I am leaving.
As Vienna has no Myanmar ambassy in Austria, I have to get my Visa at the embassy in Berlin.
I had to send
my passport,
the Visa-documents,
three passport-pictures,
an envelope with my adress and german stamps
to the embassy in Berlin. Beyond this, I had to
transfer the amount of 25 EUR for the Visa to an account in Germany.
The interesting part here is the envelope with the “stamps” on it - to send the documents back to me.
From a european perspective, there are special international post-cupons available at every post-office for Europe as those are the unique currency in direction of stamps.
The thin is, that Germany is not accepting those international post-cupons.
As I am not having the possibility to buy german stamps at the post-office in Austria, I had to find a person in Berlin, who helps me in bringing there some stamps for finishing the approval-process. I started a call in twitter and facebook and was lucky to get in connection with a formal college from University, who supported me in going to the embassy with a collection of german stamps. Thanks for the support to my twitter-followers!
Although the whole Visa-process went wonderful, easy and smooth, I am wondering, that in times of a united Europe there is still a lack in a unique stamp-solution.
So, finally this worked wonderful and thanks Judith for your help.
Thanks also to the nice support from the Myanmar embassy in Berlin. It worked wonderful.
Now I am looking forward for getting the passport with the Visa within the next days.
I have just fixed the next journey and I am looking very much forward in visiting Myanmar for three weeks in April and May 2009. I booked a flight for about 540 EUR from Vienna to Bangkok via Dubai at www.checkfelix.com. Good price.
After India, Nepal, Vietnam, Thaliand, Cambodia it will be my 6th destination in Asia.
The next days I am checking my vaccinations and possibilities for a fast visa. I have already bought a Lonely Planet and looking forward for inputs, tipps and many, many inputs in advance.
Good. Looking forward to it. The countdown has started - I am leaving in 25 days from now on.
Wow, on checking todays news in Nepals newspaper, I noticed the “EURO 2008-Countdown-Banner” in the top of the right column. Especially interesting, as the Euro 2008 is this year in Austria and Switzerland. I am going to check, if there are live-broadcasts of the soccer-games in this country. This could work, as time-difference is +3.45 hrs. and this time is still OK for the audience to watch it. Interesting.
Landed in Vienna on Sunday morning. Went to BILLA buying some milk, bread and butter. Not much, but was wondering paying 16 EUR. Then going by taxi from the airport at home and paying the normal fee of around 40 EUR.
So, all in one 56 EUR! I have not spent the last week so much on accomodation, food and drinks…
The GPS-tool worked very well, although I have not turned it always on this time. So, here is a GPS-summary about the places I have visited in India.
I am impressed, I succeded in my primal plans going from Delhi to Kathmandu. I did not plan going up to Kashmir and down west to Kolkata. This worked due to travelling at night and flights from and to Kathmandu. All together I passed about 6.000 km in India and Nepal - quite a lot…
Download India napolis KML-Files for checking in Google Earth
India napolis (KML, 19 MB)
India napolis (KML, 320 kB)
