After two nights rest in Jing Hong, it's back on the road again.
Before boarding the bus, I decided to pick up the "seasickness medicine" that has been piquing my curiousity since I last saw it advertised at the Luang Prabang bus "station". It is sold in two glass vials at 2 RMB. Funny it is labelled as injection fluid, but I have not seen any Chinese shooting it up their arms. They simply gulp it down.
Jing Hong is actually out of the way from the new Mohan-Kunming highway. The bus crosses the LanChang river and got back on to the highway.
It will make a detour to towns like PuNing and Pu'er(which gave the tea its name) which are on a older highway.
Here the road are narrower and the toll station looks more retro. A lorry hauling timber was too 'wide-body', tearing a toll booth right off its base. Toll officers, police and the lorry driver stands around scratching their heads on how to clean up the mess.
It is about a six hour trip long the same mountainous roads. And this is the reason no railway connects Jing Hong to Kunming.
By the time the bus reaches its destination, I realise it wasn't anyway near the Kunming centre. Found out later that evening from the hotel that we have been dropped off at the new terminal on the southern outskirt of Kunming.
So, a week after arriving in Bangkok, I would have to wait one more night before arriving in Kunming.
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