BAGAN TO MANDALAY BY BOAT - A Day on the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar
TIME STAMPS: 1:42 Boarding the MGRG Express Boat; 2:30 First Look at the Boat; 12:03 The Boat at Dawn & My Breakfast Box; 16:54 First Cup of Coffee!; 21:25 The Bridge at Pakokku; 25:30 Daylight Tour of the Boat; 33:00 Coffee Number Two; 41:51 Breakfast Time; 45:04 Lunch Time; 46:41 Update-One and a Half Hours till Mandalay; 49:23 The Bridges of Mandalay; 51:18 What I Know About Mandalay; 54:10 Docking at Mandalay Jetty; 56:38 TukTuk to My Hotel; 57:51 Journey's End at the Hotel Boss
Mandalay is not that far from Bagan. I believe it is about 170 kilometers by road, and if you need to make that trip to catch your flight, there are a lot of very comfortable and reasonably-priced buses waiting to take you. Some of them will even come to your hotel and pick you up there and drop you off at your hotel in Mandalay.
You can also get to Mandalay by train. That would likely take a bit more effort on your part to figure out when the trains go and how you buy tickets and sorting out the different classes of ticket (if any). It would take a fair bit longer than a bus, too, but it would be much cheaper and certainly a lot more interesting as an experience.
Finally, you can go by boat - a tourist boat, to be exact. There appear to be at least two companies operating boats that regularly make the run between Bagan and Mandalay. They don't run year-round, though. During some months of the low season, they stop operating, and they start back up again once the tourists return.
I appeared to have arrived in Bagan right at the beginning of the new season for the boats. It took some work on my part and a few visits to some ticket offices to sort it all out, but I eventually figured out which boats were going and on which days. I made my final decision to go by boat and bought a ticket. After all, I had taken a train to get to Bagan. And I don't like buses in general. So a trip by boat seemed the best choice.
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Douglas (AKA The Cycling Canadian)
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Irrawaddy River Cruise Burma (Myanmar) (Bagan to Mandalay by SLOW BOAT) | Myanmar Travel
We were up at 4am again for our Irrawaddy River Cruise. Of course there is a bus, but we heard travelling from Bagan to Mandalay by slow boat was a journey not to miss, this is so true. The slow boat from Bagan to Mandalay wasn't necessarily luxurious, but there is an AC room, plenty of food, and in the northerly direction lots of room to spread out. I even spotted Irrawaddy dolphins.
Doing an Irrawaddy river cruise in Burma (Myanmar) is something I would recommend to anyone, it is relaxing, enjoyable and romantic all at the same time. We think that our time in Myanmar would not have been complete without this Irrawaddy river cruise.
Many people travel from Mandalay to Bagan by boat, but we recommend going in the opposite direction. Fewer people travel from Bagan to Mandalay by slow boat and this gave us plenty of room on the luxury cruise to stretch out and enjoy ourselves. We spent a lot of the day hoping to see the Irrawaddy river dolphins!
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