MACAU. For some reason Sta cant locate Macau but there we go! We arrived at the border between Macau and China after what was possibly our worst journey yet due to an awful sleeper bus with beds only just big enough for very small people and wide enought for stick insects and no loo! When you got on you have to remove your shoes and lace them in plastic bags so at least the floor was clean! We got stuck in traffic for about an hour, all busting for the loo but ...

Hey Everyone After leaving Hangzhou we spent 1 full day in Guilin. We got a sleep train from Hangzhou that took 22 hours. We shared our section of the carriage with a young Chinese family who had the cutest little boy. He was not so cute when he cried for most of the night though and kept us awake. Not sure what was worse, his crying, his dads snoring, or his mum shouting at his dad for sleeping, all when we were trying to sleep ourselves. While in Guilin we wa...

Arrived in Hangzhou on Sat after two hours on a bus which made a nice change from the sleeper trains we've been relying on to travel overland. Unfortunately, it was raining for the first time since we've been in China but as we were travelling it didn't affect us too much. Our hostel, right on the edge of West Lake was lovely, felt very warm and homely as soon as we walked in. The staff were genuinely interested in what are plans were. Lara and Lowri were also ...

Suzhou is very pretty! We took a boat down the Grand canal (apprently the largest in the world) and down the smaller canals around the old town. Kinda reminded us of Venice! We hd the chance to get off the boat and have a little wander round the old town streets here people were selling live chickens, ducks, toads, eels, crickets and pigeons all tied together and stuffed into tiny boxes where they could barely move！The boat took us to Tiger Hill, the most ...

Hey guys, Arrived in Shanghai on Sunday after 20 hours on a sleeper train (this time with no ladders on the bunks, just little bits sticking out the wall so that you had to clamber on other people's beds to get up!). We had a bit of a nightmare getting to the hostel from the train station. Got the metro to the stop we'd been advised and then attempted to walk fom there (meant to just be a 10 minute walk!) However, after walking for 45 minutes to no avail we atte...