It takes a long time to get anywhere in Myanmar, so I had to get an early start. The previous day I got some information on buses, so I made my way to the bus stop by way of taxi. Then I got on this ancient bus with rusted metal everywhere, wondering how safe this is to scrape your skin up against. Unfortunately, bus 43 didn’t take me all the way to the highway bus station. The conductor told me to get off.
When I got off, I asked some people how to get the rest of the way to the bus station. They said to take bus 43. So I got on the next bus 43 and right away the conductor told me to get off. So I decided to walk from here. After a while some truck picked me up and took me to the station.
I got a ticket and about 6 hours later made it to the Kinpun base camp where I got a room and prepare for the next day. My $5 room was pretty bad. There was no fan and no screens on the windows and there was some kind of bad smell. But I think good enough for me.