From Hangzhou we went to Guilin for a little while, in the hope that as it was much further south it would be hotter. These hopes were dashed by the fact it rained quite a bit whilst we were there.

However we did cycle around a fair bit, along the Li river, a load of lakes and such. We went to see some rock/hill that was meant to look like an elephant but we never saw from which way this would be, so a touh disappointing. We also got lost a fair bit whilst there as the map the hostel had given us was rubbish, so we got to see a whole lot of Guilin that we had planned to see.

From Guilin we went to see the Dragons backbone rice terraces. These were in essence really cool and quite spectacular except the one full day that we had there, the clouds came right down and you could hardly see. However we did get some nice time outside of the city to walk around in the rain. Stayed in a little village called Tiantou in a hotel where the first night we were the only guests. This had the consequence that the hotel didn't bother with its heating so we had to resort to going to bed at 7 to stay warm!!

After that we had another day in Guilin where we got massages and did not so much else. We went to the seven stars park which was nice to have a picnic there, but we went to the caves where we got really ripped off. They were kind of tacky with loads of coloured lights and stuff and we were in a chinese tour so couldn't understand a thing.

Left Guilin on the 29th on a train to Shenzhen. This arrived on the 30th and we then had a relatively long wlak through the station and border control before we were in Hong Kong and able to get on the metro.