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The Newest Peninsula Hotel Will Be In...
Yangon, Myanmar.
Last week, Peninsula Hotels struck a deal to build a new luxury hotel out of the former Burma Railway Building in Yangon, close to the famous Scott's Market (a "major" tourist attraction.)
Specifics of the hotel, such as how many floors, guest rooms and even when it will open have yet to be determined, but the hotel will open as part of a mixed use development. Since the building's original architecture was created in an elegant colonial style (way back when the British called the country, Burma), Peninsula isn't going to mess with it too much.
Below, you can see a photo of how it looks today as well as a future rendering above.
This is a major hotel development for Myanmar, located in Southeast Asia and bordered by China, Thailand, India, Laos and Bangladesh. That's because up until 2011, the country had been under harsh military rule and its people severely oppressed.
Trade sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union were only recently lifted, thanks to the presence of a new civilian government, yet there have been some new incidents between the country's Buddhist and Muslim populations.
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Myanmar's Luxury Hotel Invasion Begins At Bagan
Now that Myanmar's iron-fisted miltary dictatorship has decided to free a few political prisoners and re-open its doors to foreigners, let the luxury hotel invasion begin!
First up at bat? Southeast Asia's Apple Tree Group, whose international hotel portfolio includes a colonial-era steamship, a villa built by the grandson of a Laotian king, and a thatched roof ecolodge along the Mekong in Vietnam, is shooting for an April 15th opening of its "highly anticipated tented luxury lodge" on the shores of the Irawaddy River in Bagan, called… wait for it…Bagan Lodge.
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Myanmar Resort Offers a Different Kind of Vacation (Hopefully Sometime)
We are most definitely in two minds about the pros and cons of visiting Myanmar aka Burma at the moment, but that doesn't stop us from looking at interesting places to stay should the situation change in the future.
And one place that crossed our desk this week is the Malikha Lodge in the northern state of Kachin.
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Room With A View of Edward Scissorhands Pad?
The October CN Traveler's back page focuses on Myanmar.
The above photo is the view from room 805 at the Popa Mountain Resort, and to reach the volcanic plug monastery in the photo you gots to climb 777 stairs.
Yeah, all of a sudden kicking back on the balcony of one of the 38 rooms in the resort sounds like a good idea doesn't it.
Is it just us, or does this kinda look like where Edward Scissorhands lived?
Related Stories:
· Myanmar Tour [geoex]
· Popa Mountain Resort Reviews [TripAdvisor]
