Trip to Myanmar January/February 2015.
I went to a trip to Ranong and into Myanmar (Kawthaung) in Myanmar to search for Melo Melo pearls and the outcome is below.
From Ranong Airport to the pier to Kawthaung is around 20 kilometers. First check out at the Thai Immigration and then in a longtail boat to another outer Thai customs post, followed an Thai Army post where soldiers check who is on board.
After some time the Myanmar outer posts checked the boat in the same way until we reached the city where the immigration stamped our passports.
Kawthaung is not an impressive city, except for the enormous number of fisherman boats. Same as in Ranong on the Thai side, the fishing industry overfishing the Andaman sea.
We were told to go and ask gold shops if they had Melo Melo pearls. Only one shop we found with one Melo Melo, but had to wait over an hour because it was somewhere in a safe.
Met up with one dealer who had around 7 Melo Melo and the best ones we looked at and the details you can see below.
Doing business is not easy as he knows what he is talking about and wants a good price. We told him that there are dealers with a stock and that Melo Melo move slower than he thinks. But we found that if anyone would come with money in his pocket a deal can be struck.
Had the feeling that he also wants money because he knows some Melo Melo for sale in the archipelago, which he wants to get also.
I went to a trip to Ranong and into Myanmar (Kawthaung) in Myanmar to search for Melo Melo pearls and the outcome is below.
From Ranong Airport to the pier to Kawthaung is around 20 kilometers. First check out at the Thai Immigration and then in a longtail boat to another outer Thai customs post, followed an Thai Army post where soldiers check who is on board.
After some time the Myanmar outer posts checked the boat in the same way until we reached the city where the immigration stamped our passports.
Kawthaung is not an impressive city, except for the enormous number of fisherman boats. Same as in Ranong on the Thai side, the fishing industry overfishing the Andaman sea.
We were told to go and ask gold shops if they had Melo Melo pearls. Only one shop we found with one Melo Melo, but had to wait over an hour because it was somewhere in a safe.
Met up with one dealer who had around 7 Melo Melo and the best ones we looked at and the details you can see below.
Doing business is not easy as he knows what he is talking about and wants a good price. We told him that there are dealers with a stock and that Melo Melo move slower than he thinks. But we found that if anyone would come with money in his pocket a deal can be struck.
Had the feeling that he also wants money because he knows some Melo Melo for sale in the archipelago, which he wants to get also.
