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'''Yangon''' is the biggest city in Myanmar.
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'''{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}''' is the biggest city in Myanmar.
  
 
== Hitching out ==
 
== Hitching out ==
 
=== North towards [[Naypyidaw]], [[Mandalay]], Mae Sot (Thailand) ===
 
=== North towards [[Naypyidaw]], [[Mandalay]], Mae Sot (Thailand) ===
  
You need to get close to the bus station which is located right here: https://www.google.pl/maps/@16.9325349,96.1568112,16.08z
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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.
Buses number 42 and 48 go there from the Sule Pagoda, but they don't use arabic numbers so you better ask someone about the main bus station.
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It will take you a while to get there. 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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[[File:Zero-mile marker yangon-mandalay highway.jpg|thumb|zero-mile marker yangon-mandalay highway]]
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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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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[[Category: Myanmar]]

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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