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and easy to follow. Climate and best time to go: There is a light breeze from the sea, which makes it more comfortable when the weather gets hot. The best time to visit is between October and February. During the rainy season it is humid and there is often a cloud hanging around the mountain. It rains here sometimes even during the hot season. Ordination: It is possible, there may be a senior Western monk who can teach and help translate Thai. Otherwise Westerners are sent to Wat Pah Nanachat for training. 1.14 Samnak Song Tham Krabok (drug withdrawal) Address: Thamkrabok Monastery, Ampoe Koonklone, Phra Putthabat, 18120 Saraburi-Provinz, Thailand Tel./Fax: 036-266 067 036-267 198 e-mail: THAMKRABOK@hotmail.com Internet: www.thamkrok.org/ ab more Information in the internet! 36
2. Myanmar (Burma) The Burmese as a rule are a very hospitable people and Burma is considered a relatively safe country to travel in. If you plan to use public transport you should be aware that busses are crowded and delays are frequent. Inexpensive flights to Bangkok start at US$ 500. A return ticket Bangkok/Yangon may be as little as US$ 200, but the regular price for return tickets from Europe is about US$ 900. The Return airfare from Bangkok to Yangon (Jan 2006), are Myanmar Airline, twice daily : THB 8000 ($200) - Old Airplanes McDonnald Douglass Bangkok Airways, twice daily : THB 9000 ($225) - Newer Boeing Planes Thai Airways, twice a day , twice daily : THB 11,000+ Air Mandalay (flies directly from Chiang Mai to Yangon, once a week on Sundays?), Return $160 It is not recommended to change money at the airports. Medical care is not comparable to Western standards. Hygiene and the country’s greasy cuisine are a problem to some Western travelers. Hence it is important to observe the usual travel precautions for the east. Potable water is to be treated with caution. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule – the Hse Main Gon Forest Meditation Center cuisine offers no doubt one of the best monastery cooking in Asia. There are a number of excellent meditation teachers and monasteries with very good conditions for practice. Especially those interested in Mahasi Sayadaw’s method find ideal possibilities for long-term retreats. But also for those interested in intensive Sammatha-practice in Pa-Auk Sayadaw’s tradition or in Vipassana methods relatively unknown in the West, such as Mogok Sayadaw’s, Burma is ideal. English is more widely spread than in Thailand and hence in most monasteries translators can be found. Permission of Entry: A visa is compulsory! Tourist visa is valid four weeks. If you want to enter with a meditation visa you must ask for a so-called sponsorship letter from the center which must be sent to the Burmese embassy together with the visa application. For processing, reckon on about three months. Visa extensions are also possible. Take sufficient passport pictures (about 10) for the various forms. Visa regulations do change once in a while, and one should check with the relevant people prior to making traveling plans! 37
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Page 11 and 12: Language(s): English. Costs and sho
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Page 25 and 26: Technique: Instructions for formal
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Page 49 and 50: Literature: A very good and free of
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