Should you be mad enough to want to get the train up from Yangon to Mandalay, you'll need to visit the train station which is a quite magnificent building.
Once you've found that you will then have to walk the entire way around the building, down the road and over the bridge and onto the next block, where you need to turn left and look for some kind of towers. That's because the advance ticket sales offices are miles away from the main station and located behind the tracks.
Nothing is in English, only Myanmarnese (? is this correct?) and the script is beautiful to look at. It's nothing like Thai symbols, more angular and circular but like Thai, it really does look very pretty- only you can't read it. More through luck than judgement we turned left as we came in and went right to the end and asked for tickets to Mandalay. One chap spoke great English and helped us booking the tickets and again, we had some dollars kicked back to us as they weren't acceptable. Nor did they have much change, so try to bring the correct cash. We paid US$66 for two, one way tickets in the "upper class" sleeper birth for two people.
Get there early as the twin bunks sell out fast (there is only one per train) the rest are for four persons and then there are only perhaps 4 or 5?
Anyway, despite our ordeal we're really glad we did the trip (one way at least) as the scenery is awesome and you see the real Myanmar with all the rural villages and people toiling in the fields with oxen and other cattle, living in shacks or worse but all happy to wave us by.
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