Saturday 11th June - Guilin. So much for getting away from the heat of Hong Kong - Guilin is just as hot! We're only spending a couple of days here as the main attraction of this region is the nearby town of Yangshuo. So today we just sorted out how we were going to get there and had a bit of a wander around Guilin town. The Backstreet Youth Hostel is nice enough. It's quite small so it doesn't offer the range of day trips and meals that we've seen elsewhere, b...

Ni hao! Shanghai has been really overwhelming and we're both suffering from culture shock. The people are loud and seem to need to shout everything all the time; the traffic is mad, cars are honking all the time and pedestrian crossings might as well not be there; the food is all completely unknown to us and even when the menu has picture of the food you're still not entirely sure what you've ordered and when it turns up it looks nothing like the picture anyway! ...