After being shuttled to an all you can eat Chinese breakfast by the exuberant old Chinese lady at reception, I made my way to the Wulingyuan entrance to the Zhangjiajie national park. Surprisingly the ticket queue wasn't too bad, and I got a student discount! Zhangjiajie park is very large so you have to get a bus to various points and then hike or Cable car around. The buses are included in the ticket. The cable cars, no. Hence, it was a lot of walking.today! ...

Maybe that will be the last sleeper train I take... Been a quite dull weekend although this being China, even small simple things require a lot of thought. It was easy enough navigating Shanghai South station to find my train. The train left on time and whole system is very organised. I was in a hard sleeper carriage which means open compartments of 6. The beds are quite narrow to, I fell out once, though luckily I was bottom bunk. It was a relatively comforta...

I'm in Shanghai!!! It's a place I've always dreamt of travelling to, perhaps the very first place that I wanted to go. I don't really know why. At one point I wanted to live here. Whilst I don't have plans to move here anymore, it was still really exciting to come here, the jewel in China's crown. My arrival was a little rough - having to do my fingerprints twice because I dropped the confirmation slip. Luckily my border guard was very friendly and I got my ba...