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TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
On the road to Bago, a few miles beyond Yangon's airport at Mingaladon, you reach
Taukkyan location of the huge Taukkyan War Cemetery , maintained by the Common-
wealth War Graves Commission.
It contains the graves of 6374 Allied soldiers who died in the Burma and Assam
campaigns of WWII. There is also a memorial bearing the names of the almost
27,000 soldiers who died with no known grave. As you walk around reading the
names of those who died and the epitaphs commemorating them, the heat of the
sun seems to fade and the noise of the road recedes, leaving you alone in the si-
lence of your own thoughts in this immensely sad place.
You can get to Taukkyan on bus 9 from Yangon or aboard any Bago-bound bus
from the Aung Mingalar Bus Terminal.
CAR
Rates for hiring a car and driver run approximately $80 to $100 per day depending on
your ultimate destination and the state of the vehicle you hire. Drivers can be arranged
through a travel agent or hotel front desk.
TRAIN
Yangon train station ( 01-202 178; 6am-4pm) is located a short walk north of Sule
Paya; advance tickets should be purchased at the adjacent Myanmar Railways Booking
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(Bogyoke Aung San Rd;
7am-3pm) , where you can also
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check the latest timetables.
Major destinations that can be reached by daily departures from Yangon include
Bagan, Bago. Kyaikto, Mandalay, Mawlamyine, Nay Pyi Taw, Pyay, Taungoo and Thazi.
There's a chance that in 2014 a new service to Pathein will commence.
Though inexpensive, trains are slow, uncomfortable and tend to be plagued by delays;
see Click here for more details. The one destination you might consider using a train to
get to is Kyaiktiyo. Every Saturday a service using air-conditioned carriages departs for
the Golden Rock at 6.25am ($10; 4½ hours); it returns on Sunday at noon arriving in
Yangon (in theory) at 4.25pm. The air-conditioned carriages are eventually destined to be
used on the Yangon Circle Line, once station platforms on that route have been upgraded.
Getting Around
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