Well we crossed our first country border successfully! Although officially part of China the border crossing was a bit stricter than we expected they looked at your passport and could take your temeperature at rnadom! But we made it to our hostel.By the time we got there we were tired after travelling all night and most of the day so we thought we could relax...except our room was so small you couldnt swing a worm in it! it consisted of a double bed (that was rea...

Sawadeeka! Arrived safely in Bangkok on 31st May, first impressions were it was HOT!!! The heat was amazing even in the shade. We managed to get to our hostel using the public transport (with some slight difficulties along the way!) only to find it was quite a way from the town centre and all the sights, although it was a very nice hostel. The following day we found out we'd need to be in Bangkok until the following Thursday to sort out our visa's for Laos and V...

As I was saying... we arrived in Chongqing quite late at night and we were met by our guide Jesse. She was very patriotic towards Chongqing and on the way to our hotel she gave us a "brief history of the city". Si stared out the window and she turned round in her seat and began... "our city is very famous for...." this became a pattern and every other sentence while she was telling us that Chongqing has 3 names (capital of fog, capital of...

After the worst journey ever, we finally made it our hostel in Guilin. The Backstreet youth hostel was nice and right in the middle of the shopping district near to the river so we were im pressed..until (after having no sleep the night before) we decided to have an afternoon nap and discovered we had the hardest beds in China, and no joke you could knock on the matress and it would sound like a door. Our first day was spent chilling out, but on the night went t...

Hello all, sorry for the delay in updating have been very busy! After our somewhat nightmarish train ride we finally made it to our hostel in Chengu and it was lovely, apart from our room wasn't ready and with the lack of sleep and me not feeling too well we were shattered but we had a mooch around to see what was going on in the area. The hostel was very good had a nice seating area,delicious food and a bar as well as some animals - 2 pigs and a puppy (mu...