In this personal memoir, American palaeontologist Russell Ciochon recounts a 1978 trip into the Ponnyadaung hills west of Pale in central Myanmar in search of skeletal remains and fossils associated with early primates who lived in the area 40 million years ago. Ciochon and companions discovered little that was new, but the article highlights the discoveries made by renowned palaeontologist Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History whose journey into the same area in 1923 yielded some of the first fossil evidence of an important link, known as Prosimii (or pre-apes), between lower and upper primates. This article also gives exposure to the work of U Ba Maw and U Thaw Tint of Mandalay University who have collected several small fossil jaws of primates in the same area.