Originally Posted by
pong
Safety is not the main point (from US?=the always asked Q-feels like parrots for others). At least for Yangon and the central area-but army/police will not let you go into areas with rebellion etc anyway. More to possibly worry about is the really 3d world standd Burma (as I still call it-as do all my friends in TH from there, in Thai its still like ´Pheema´) has, even less as TH used to have some 35/40 yrs ago when I first got there.
In fact if you aim for real Burmese guys for some close contacts both BKK and PTY-and probably also ChMai (not been there many moons) are a far better & easier to get to bet.