Originally Posted by Bacopa

I'll be there during NY day and possibly on the eve! My flight actually leaves on January 2nd so there's a good chance that I'll be in Yangon on the 1st of January.

Btw, I was just in Myanmar and loved it. We booked all of our hotels, tickets and bus rides with a pretty reasonable TA called seven diamonds. All of our hotel and flight rates were lower than what we were finding online (e.g., the TA charged 70 USD/ night for staying at the Hotel at Tharabar Gate while other people we met during our stay purchased the hotel room for 2x the price). I have a contact number if anyone is interested (I just need to find it somewhere). My contact is pretty friendly and speaks english.