read reports on fb group an TA: relatively safe to travel
Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay & Inle lake, ( Taunggyai for the balloon festival later this week) but checkpoints along the way
You can also enter from Ranong to Kwathoung by a short boat trip ( used for thai border bouncers) for $10 you can stay up to 14 days but cant travel more than 15 kms from town
Also one can travel by bus to Golden rock and on to Hpa an heading south and no reports of trouble
A very good read
A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses
The military-installed president of Myanmar has warned that the country is in danger of breaking apart if the government cannot control fighting which has broken out in Shan State.
Former General Myint Swe, who was appointed after a coup in 2021, was speaking at an emergency meeting held by the ruling military council to address a series of co-ordinated attacks by anti-military insurgents which have inflicted serious losses on the armed forces.
Three ethnic insurgent armies in Shan State, supported by other armed groups opposing the government, have overrun dozens of military posts, and captured border crossings and the roads carrying most of the overland trade with China.
It is the most serious setback suffered by the junta since it seized power in February 2021. After two-and-half years of battling the armed uprising it provoked with its disastrous coup, the military is looking weak, and possibly beatable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67305690
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST