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=== North towards [[Naypyidaw]], [[Mandalay]], Mae Sot (Thailand) ===
 
=== North towards [[Naypyidaw]], [[Mandalay]], Mae Sot (Thailand) ===
  
You need to get close to the [https://goo.gl/maps/ehD7M Aung Mingalar Highway Bus station].
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Take YBS bus number 37 (၃၇), direction Hlegu (လှည်းကူး) from Sule Square and get off at A Mhat Thone Lan Sone (Mingalardon) bus stop (17.06578°N 96.16669°E). Walk north-east approx. 500m to the junction where the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway starts and begin hitchhiking just past the zero-mile marker.
  
Bus 36 (၃၆) leaves from the north side of the Pagoda and headed directly north up Sule Pagoda Road. It will get you to the Aung Mingalar Highway Bus Station.
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[[File:Zero-mile marker yangon-mandalay highway.jpg|thumb|zero-mile marker yangon-mandalay highway]]
  
Get off the bus close to the bus station, but don't go there. Just follow the main road (Thundhamma Road or Road No 3) and get to the nearest traffic lights. You will see them from the bus stop. Behind the traffic lights there's a wide roadside and good place to hitch.
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You can easily catch a car to [[Naypyidaw]] or even straight to [[Mandalay]]. If you are going to [[Mae Sot]], you can hitch from the junction on highway 1 towards Bago.
  
Buses 17 (၁၇), 18 (၁၈), 32 (၃၂), 42 (၄၂), 66 (၆၆) all go to the Aung Mingalar Highway Bus Station from parts of the city. Bus 35 (၃၅) goes furthest north of all the buses; it begins right at Strand Rd (riverside) and goes north along the Phone Gyi/Pyay Rd (the next street east of 12th). After the turn left from Khayae Rd onto the Highway (at [16.936N, 96.153E], just north of the Highway Bus Station), there are plenty of places to hitch. The bus takes you another 8.8km north, very near to the toll gate (past the Myanmar Brewery), after which it turns left. Make sure to get off before it turns left there; the turnoff is here [17.0139N, 96.14576E]. The full route is approximately [https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Maw+Tin/17.045319,96.1275477/@16.9367743,96.0100338,49363m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m34!4m33!1m30!1m1!1s0x30c1eb781ec40d1f:0xcdb9b0692e3fecd3!2m2!1d96.1423659!2d16.7748924!3m4!1m2!1d96.1420969!2d16.7747309!3s0x30c1eb781e1afe1f:0xe6b3c6b748d97734!3m4!1m2!1d96.1447933!2d16.7733953!3s0x30c1eb8281a8cd8b:0xc220d15ec0e95fc8!3m4!1m2!1d96.1418892!2d16.8599946!3s0x30c1948f630b79f1:0x12cfc02e3d5c7e04!3m4!1m2!1d96.1243335!2d16.8880542!3s0x30c19446e8707d85:0x2a5cf6faeacfbddd!3m4!1m2!1d96.1478116!2d16.9715226!3s0x30c1972ddbb8fb3f:0x1a3ec6992dde0736!1m0!3e2 like this]
 
  
You can easily catch a car to [[Naypyidaw]] or even straight to [[Mandalay]]. If you go to [[Mae Sot]] you can take a car only to the beginning of the highway and then turn right. There are also many good hitching spots.
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Latest revision as of 21:36, 29 January 2021

Yangon is the biggest city in Myanmar.

Hitching out

North towards Naypyidaw, Mandalay, Mae Sot (Thailand)

Take YBS bus number 37 (၃၇), direction Hlegu (လှည်းကူး) from Sule Square and get off at A Mhat Thone Lan Sone (Mingalardon) bus stop (17.06578°N 96.16669°E). Walk north-east approx. 500m to the junction where the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway starts and begin hitchhiking just past the zero-mile marker.

zero-mile marker yangon-mandalay highway

You can easily catch a car to Naypyidaw or even straight to Mandalay. If you are going to Mae Sot, you can hitch from the junction on highway 1 towards Bago.


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