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184 Central MyanMar Yangon to MandalaY
Naypyitaw (116km) & Mandalay (374km)
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Gate BO HMU PO KUN ROAD KBZ atM Gate Statue of
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Kaunghmudaw Pagoda (1.5km) Amusement Park Kandawgyi Shwesandaw aGD Bank MERCHANT ST Buses to King Mingyinyo
Kyet Minn
Nyi Naung
Buses to
Market
Naypyitaw
& Meiktila
Pagoda
Yangon
Lake
CB Bank
Vegetable
evergreen Market
WEST KYONE STREET
Café
TAW WIN KAYTUMADI RD
Myasigon
Pagoda
Buses to
aCCOMMODatIOn Mandalay
Amazing Kaytu 1 Railway
Station
4 Mother’s House Hotel 3 4 eatInG
Myanmar Beauty Guesthouse II, III & IV
Royal Kaytumadi Hotel 2 Aung Moe Hein 1
(2km), (2.5km), Bago (216km) & Yangon (277km)
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By bus Buses stop at various bus company offices along (hourly; 5hr); Yangon (hourly; 5hr).
National Highway 1. A motorbike taxi to Myanmar Beauty By train The railway station is on the south side of the
Guesthouse or Mother’s House Hotel (see below) costs centre, just inside the city walls.
around K1500 with luggage. Destinations Bago (3 daily; 4hr 30min); Mandalay (3 daily;
Destinations Bago (hourly; 5hr); Hpa-An (2 daily; 7hr); 8–9hr); Naypyitaw (3 daily; 2hr 30min); Thazi (3 daily;
Kalaw (daily; 10hr); Mandalay (2 daily; 7hr); Meiktila 6hr); Yangon (3 daily; 7hr).
(hourly; 5hr); Naypyitaw (hourly; 2hr 30min); Thazi
GettInG arOUnD
By bicycle Central Taungoo is compact enough to be especially if you want to go out to Kaunghmudaw Pagoda.
covered on foot, but renting a bicycle (for around K3000/ By motorbike taxi A motorbike taxi from one of the out-
day) from Myanmar Beauty is a nice way to explore, of-town guesthouses to the centre costs around K1500.
aCCOMMODatIOn
Amazing Kaytu Off Yangon–Mandalay Rd T054 enough, although it’s worth paying an extra $5 for one of
23977, Wamazing-hotel.com. Neat, modern little hotel the larger and more attractive wood-panelled bungalows
set slightly off the main road and just a short walk from the around the back. There’s also a small restaurant attached,
town centre. Standard rooms upstairs (with TVs, a/c, hot though it’s right on the road. $30
water and fridges) are pokey and old-fashioned; superior ★ Myanmar Beauty Guesthouse II, III & IV 3km
rooms downstairs cost just $6 extra and are much more south of town, just off the east side of the Yangon–
attractively decorated, with prints of flowers and plants on Mandalay Rd T054 25073 or T09 784 040 402.
the walls – though they’re still on the small side. $40 Overlooking the fields south of town, this lovely guesthouse
Mother’s House Hotel 501 Yangon–Mandalay Rd, justifies a stopover in Taungoo all by itself. Rooms are
3km south of town T054 24240, Emotherhousehotel spread over three separate wooden buildings. Those in
@gmail.com. A reasonable place, although slightly too building II (en-suite, cold water only) are simplest and
close to the main road for complete comfort. Cheaper cheapest, but perfectly adequate – though they’re not
rooms (with hot water, a/c, TVs and fridges) are pleasant always keen to rent them to foreign visitors; those in III
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