India-Myanmar-Thailand Superhighway will make your roadtrip to Bangkok possible
The highway will even connect to Iran in the future
The year 2016 will see the Asian Highway (AH-1) open to people travelling from Guwahati to Imphal and Moreh via Dimapur by road. This new highway road is part of the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway that will connect Moreh to Mae Sot in Thailand, via Mandalay and Yangon in Myanmar, according to media reports.
If you happen to plan a roadtrip, it would take around 14 days to cover the 4,500 km distance. Also, in the future the AH-1 road will start from Tokyo (connected by ferry) and run through Seoul, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom to Mae Sot , Yangon, Mandalay, Tamu, Moreh, Imphal, Kohima, Dimapur, Nagaon, Jorabat (Guwahati), Shillong, Dawki, Sylhet, Dhaka, Kolkata, Kanpur, New Delhi, Attari, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Kabul, Istanbul till the border of Bulgaria.
The northeastern part of the highway will be known as AH-2 if you are driving from the Indonesian capital city of Denpasar to Jakarta, even touching a host of cities like Bangkok, Mandalay, Imphal, Kohima, New Delhi, Attari, Lahore and even Salafchegan in Iran.