How to get from Nyaungshwe to Mandalay By Bus

Distance: 309km

Duration: 12 hours (by bus)

You can take a bus from Nyaungshe to Mandalay. It’ll be 12 hours including breaks. The bus drivers drive on mountainous roads like a lunatic at a horrifying speed. This is an all-day journey Travelers in Nyaungshwe only wait by the side of the road at Shwenyaung junction, 11km north of Nyaungshwe. Buses stop and pick up passengers waiting at the site of the road. Travel agencies and most hotels and guesthouses in Nyaungshwe can help make reservations.

Many people have no idea where they were when they go off the bus in Mandalay. Kwe Se Kan (main) bus station is 10km south of downtown and buses arrive and depart from here for major destinations south of Mandalay.

For late arrival, you can pick up a moto driver (2000kyats) per person to Royal Guesthouse. Or staying at Peacock Lodge.Taxi will charge you about 10,000 Kyats. But you can share it. Otherwise take a motor bike taxi and will cost about 2,500 Kyats.