We left Xi'an by bus, which turned out to be one of the most easy and comfortable journeys we have had for a long time. Although the Chinese can be perseved as quite a rude nation, at times they can be so friendly and helpful, especially those who speak a little English. We had brought our bus ticket in advance, luckily the woman in the ticket booth spoke English, so we just had to find out which bus we needed to get on. After showing our tickets to a couple of p...

We arrived in Xi'an late Friday night after a very long journey! We had left Yangshuo Thursday afternoon and caught a local bus to Gullin, from there we took a 27 hour hard sleeper train to Xi'an.The hard sleeper train was actually not as bad as it sounds, the bunks were actually more comfortable than the bed we had been sleeping on in Yangshuo! The trains are divided into cubicles, each one with 2 sets of 3 bunks. We had the middle bunks which are best as the bo...

We left Hong Kong on the high speed train service to Guangzhou, after passing through the border formalities we were thrown in at the deep end, we had to find our way across town to the bus station. Thankfully the underground system was really good and all automated - the first problem we faced was trying to book our bus ticket, we managed to get the wrong bus station where nobody spoke english!! When we did get to the right station the only tickets we could get ...

We arrived in Hong Kong after a very good flight from Bangkok. We didn't even have to leave the HK International airport and we were on the airport express which delivered us to HK Central within 20 minutes, so easy and so efficient! We had to find Kitty's workplace, which again was easy with the help of a taxi! We are staying with Kitty, one of the NZ girls that we met whilst riding elephants in Thailand and travelled together through Laos. She lives in a flat ...

Our journey from Cambodia was to say the least uncomfortable, a good way to leave the country I guess! We were picked up from our hostel at about 7.30am and squashed into a car with two 2 other people, whose suitcase filled up the entire boot and so we had to balance our rucksacks on our knees! We drove around Siem Reap for about half an hour like this until we reached a petrol station, whereby the two other people were told to get out and three more people got i...