Fortunately, bus drivers all over the world have the uncanny ability to know where you want off if you ask them. If possible sit near the front, perhaps at some point reminding the driver of your destination. Ask someone near you if this is your stop. When you reach your stop it's not unusual for two or three people to let you know at the same time. The good people of the world really do look out for you.
Good travel is matchless liberal education.
You'll figure it out. It probably won't take more than one or two transactions. It's no big whoop. It was then that the idea of visiting Lhasa really became implanted in my mind. Before the frontier post to which I had been escorted I took an oath that in spite of all obstacles I would reach Lhasa and show what the will of a woman could achieve.