24 Hours in Bangkok, VISAs & Another Classic Hotel Tour By Tuck and Jones

We intended to get our VISAs for Myanmar in Hanoi, Vietnam but we didn’t realize that the Myanmar Embassy was closed for 10 days during Tet…Vietnamese New Year  So, even though we were in Hanoi for 2 weeks, getting our VISAs before we left wasn’t possible.  We were bummed and figured we would have to “X” Myanmar off the itinerary.   Then we found out that the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok will do same day VISA service…we were psyched!  We rerouted ourselves through Bangkok with the primary mission of getting VISAs and getting to Myanmar.

Turned out flying to Myanmar from Bangkok was better too!  We were able to fly to Mandalay and drive directly to Bagan.  Unfortunately, we had to cut our days in Myanmar back because we wasted a few days on the Bangkok rerouting. But all in all, we feel so fortunate we were able to go, even if only for 6 days. We would **highly** recommend to anyone trying to visit Myanmar to simply plan to fly to Bangkok, get VISAs there and then go on to Myanmar from there.  The VISA process in Bangkok is awesome and easy!  They even have entrepreneurs who have set up copy machines in their cars and can help you put together your Myanmar VISA application right out front of the embassy

 

If you watch the a lot of world news, you may be saying to yourself that Bangkok sounds like a scary place to travel to right now.  Honestly, all we saw was daily life happening and a ton of sandbags piled up high.  It made us realize that if you watch too much news you would be scared to go anywhere…especially the USA!

Since we were only in Bangkok for 1 purpose, we opted for a bohemian hotel, Phra-Nakorn Norn-Len Hotel, off the beaten path with a direct water taxi route to the Myanmar Embassy.

The hotel was simply awesome so we had to do a tour….