Hi everybody, I've finally got one of these travel journals set up and hopefully from now on i will update it frequency, but that remains to be seen. We arrived in Hong Kong on the 15th, we met a couple of Scotish girls at the airport, I'd love to say I could remember there names, but i can't. We got the train with them to Kowloon and we walked them to their hotel, then checked into ours. In Hong Kong we spent a couple of day trying to adjust to the time difference, and just wandering around the city. Wednesday night we went to the races at Happy Valley Racecourse, that was brilliant, we had a few bets but we didnt win much. The next day we took the train up into the new territories, to near the chinese border.We thought it might give us a taster of what to expect in China. We visited apparently the most traditional chinese town in Hong Kong. The place was quite a bit different to Hong Kong and made me wonder why we were going to China. On Saturday morning we took a ferry up the river from Hong Kong to Zhaoqing in Guangdong province, a relatively small chinese city beside a lake. We found a very nice twin hotel room for 3 pounds a night each. At first there didnt seem like much to do here until we heard a little chinese lady shouting "you want tour". After a brief discussion about how dodgy she was we decided to hop in the back of a 3 wheeled motorised trike that whisked us up the side of the lake occasionally stopping at various rocky outcrops that offered excellent views across the lake. The tour lasted about 2 hours and cost slightly more than the accomodation but was an excellent experience. From Zhaoqing we took a about a 3 hour bus to Wuzhou in Guanxgi provence, another small city next to a river. The accomodation here was slightly cheaper than Zhaoqing but there was little to do except explore. I dont think too many tourists visit this area because it was common for people to stare at us and randomly shout "heloo" as they walked past. A weird experience but they all seemed friendly and intrigued by our presence.