Heading south

If you want to head to a specific town, its easy (relatively), say the place name and Indians will help you find the bus. Even if your pronunciation is not understood you can always write it down. At the central bus stand for each town you wont even have to walk far and each destination has its own stand. (easy to explain to auto drivers too) Heading south is a slightly harder concept to translate, for example "Any town south of here." was eventually abandoned in favor of "Wheres that bus going", "Nandyal", *checks map, its roughly in the right direction* "Yes I want to go to Nandyal"

I would point out this Idiot abroad does have a map - a google maps printout with about half of the necessary place names