Just read on Lonely Planet it is possible to get a visa on arrival at the Yangon Airport. Is this true since this was an old message there? I have a friend who is teaching in China who wants to go there on his break. He is having trouble finding this info where he is in China.
Visa to Burma or Myanmar
Recent Activity
View all Asia activity »
- 1 11 days in Japan, JR pass question
- 2 Sri Lanka
- 3 Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan tour suggestions
- 4 Kashmir or Nepal
- 5
Beijing To Tibet, Mt. Everest And Nepal All In 10 Days
- 6 Udaipur, India
- 7 Elephant Visit in Chiang Mai
- 8 Ipoh
- 9
Hello, Vietnam
- 10 Conference venues around Pune City?
- 11 Treasure Junk Halong/Bai Tu Long bay crusie?
- 12
4 days with Orangutans Balikpapan + Camp Leakey
- 13 Photography Trip to Vietnam
- 14 LCCT to KL Sentral or 1Utama?
- 15 which hotel in Bangkok in July?
- 16 Honeymoon in Bali, July 2013
- 17 Shopping- Beijing or Hong Kong?
- 18 Saphan Taksin station in the news again?
- 19
Amazing Malaysia Trip!
- 20 Rajasthan tour: Car and Driver services, advise needed
- 21 Weather in Bangkok & Phuket in September
- 22
Wildlife Tour of India
- 23 Choosing a honeymoon Thai beach destination
- 24 white sand beaches in thailand
- 25
Trekking the Annapurna Circuit
The visa you get on arrival at Yangon Airport is actually pre arranged by a travel agent visa. You can't just show up at the Yangon Airport and get a visa. If your friend is going to use a TA in Myanmar to arrange his hotels and flights within the country, he should ask the TA to prearranged his visa, or else get it in advance from the Embassy in Washington DC, if he is an American.
The visa on arrival was available only for a few months in 2010. However, your friend, if he flies on Myanamar Air International from Kunming or on Myanamar Air International from Siem Reap can get a visa on arrival. VOA is available only to passengers on this one airline and from those two destinations.
Otherwise, as Shelley says, a per-arranged visa from an agent is a possibility, but your friend will have to purchase services from the agent to be eligible.
For the sake of completeness, perhaps I should mention that there are rumors of a new e-visa to be introduced at the end of April. There have been rumors of this that came to naught previously, so I wouldn't count on it being functional. There has been a travel agent on Thorntree touting this. It would make visas very easy, which is why I wouldn't count on it actually happening.