If you wish to practice for more than a month you need to arrange for a special meditation visa from the meditation centre beforehand. All the centres listed below have an ongoing meditation schedule, so you can go there at any time of the year. If you wish to practice with the main teachers it is best to go there during the Rain's Retreat between July and October. Activities such as speaking, reading, writing and listening to tapes, etc. are squarely discouraged, as impediments in the cultivation of continuous awareness. All the centres listed below have excellent facilities for men and women meditators.
Some single accommodation is available.
Boiled water is supplied. The hygiene is good. If you stay in Rangoon there is no danger of malaria and the centres supply mosquito nets as well as bedding, etc. Food, although oily, is of high quality with a great variety of dishes. Perhaps the only negative is that the Rangoon meditation centres are noisy, although a few have established forest meditation centres on the outskirts of Rangoon.