Friday 23rd October Up at our favourite time of the morning NOT 5am. Still half asleep we got our bits together and left the key with the mum who was asleep on the couch near the front door, I guess they take this in turns. Still dark outside we put on our torches to light the way to the bus station. When we got there, a few guys were waiting around but nobody selling tickets, this did not look good. 20mins later a sleep girl came in to do them, felt so sorry f...

Wednesday 21st October Up about 6am, had broken sleep last night cos guy was snoring sooooo loudly, not even our ipod music could drown him out NIGHTMARE!! Not sure if it was the same guy or not, but he visited the loo while we was getting ready to leave and lets just say I don't think he was too well bless him, poor thing. The driver was there waiting for us while we checked out, seemed like a nice guy. Took us to the jeep, very dirty but perfectly comfortably...

Thursday 15th October Was horribly early and still dark outside, but needed to get to bus station early so Gal could get his bus ticket and join us. No traffic around so got to the station in no time and he got a ticket no problem. Went on the look out for tea and coffee somewhere but couldn't find it anywhere, so settled for some orange flavoured muffins for the journey, were very tasty indeed. My foot was killing me today, since the walk up the mountain, I t...

Continue Friday 9th October When we arrived in Meishan bus station, we were all hasselled by scouts trying to give us lifts to our hostel, but we were told by hostel that if we phone from bus station we can have a free pick up. It turned out that we were all staying at Teddy's hostel and a french guy also called Charles. Inside the bus station we managed to get a lady at the information desk to phone them for us, just then I turned around to see a horror look c...

Tuesday 6th October Heard people wandering around the train, thought my alarm had not gone off, but when checked the time it was 4:20am. We were under the impression we would not be arriving till gone 6am, so tried to get back to sleep. 20 mins later Ad was bashing my leg to wake me up as the guy who originally took our tickets and swapped them for cards (so he knew where we were getting off), was asking for his cards back. Was surprised it was so early, packed...