Last breakfast overlooking Bagan. We pay, they don't take dollars but they do take credit cards and kyats. We pick up the laundry, it's quite expensive almost three times more than at Inle Lake.
Nathlaung Kyaung in Bagan
The bus comes to pick us up at the door to Naipyido, it's a big van. We want to go to Taungoo but they tell us that they can't sell us direct tickets to there so in Naipyido we will look for another bus.
Near Yamethin we see a procession to ask for alms as in Nyaungshwe, a nat party that consists of an elephant composed of two people disguised dance to music while the accompaniment asks for alms.
Bagan
Five hours later we arrive at Naipyido, the country's capital. We try without success to buy a bus ticket to Taungoo, everyone tells us that there is no station there, we do not understand anything. A taxi driver tells us that takes us to Taungoo but we do not understand, takes us to another bus station, we say no, it's pouring, now understand that we want to go to a village in the north and leaves in the opposite direction, we say no again. It seems that he already understands us and he says no and takes us back to the bus station at full speed while it's pouring.
We leave angry and ask in several places and nothing, we do not know if there is no bus or they do not want to sell it to us. We take another taxi and go to the train station. The avenues are huge, we pass by a 9-lane street. If the bus station was big, the train station was similar and there are hardly any lines. We buy the tickets and wait until 9 o'clock when the train leaves. They have wifi at the station.
Bagan
The train to say, a horror, we had a good taste of the one we took in Yangon that this one was a disappointment. We stowed away in our car a rat, cockroaches, huge spiders... a little bit dirty like that in general. It takes quite a lot of speed and it looks like we're going to derail, anyway, patience.
A man sits behind us and starts talking to us. He looks a little drunk, but he's funny. Suddenly he leaves without saying anything, we didn't know if something was wrong with him. He comes back with a policeman and another man and it turns out he's the conductor, what a laugh.
Firehouse
At midnight we arrive in Taungoo, take a tuk tuk and go to the hotel. When we arrived they were all asleep and the woman understood that we had booked her for the next night and she didn't speak almost English which messed up hehe in the end we understood each other.
The room is very good. Defeated we went to sleep.
Bus tickets from Bagan to Naipyido: 10,000 MMK per pax.
Aperitifs and beverages standing in the bus: 4.300 MMK.
Lunch: restaurant near Naipyido bus station 16.900 MMK 3 pax
Taxi around Naipyido 5.000 MMK
Taxi from Naipyidaw bus station to train station: 10.000 MMK
Train ticket from Naipyidaw to Taungoo: 1.650 MMK per pax.
Accommodation: Myanmar Beauty I triple room with bathroom $27
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