After breakfast Sam's dad gave us a lift to the bus station and Sam arranged tickets for me and Steve to go white water rafting. I was soooo excited I couldn't sit still. The bus took us out of town and up into the hills. The road turned into a track as it wound higher and higher and got thinner and thinner. I always think of my mum on the hair raising journeys. Not because I'm s***ting myself and need my mummy but because she always over reacts on journeys, if s...

Our alarm went off at 5.30am! I thought there must have been a fire. People that know me would say "what did you s*** the bed" but even if I did I would still have gone back to sleep - I'm not really a morning person - just ask anyone that worked with me on an open at Costa or any customers that dared come in before 8am for that matter. We met Sam and his friend Kevin down the stairs and hopped on the back of their mopeds. Everything looked different at this tim...

We arrived in Yangshuo and I was blown away by how pretty it was. It was perched on the edge of the Lee River. There were narrow lanes lined with shops boutiques and restaurants which all looked amazing, and canals and ponds everywhere filled with with giant lily pads and lotus flowers, criss crossed by ornate bridges. The whole place had such a nice feel to it. It took me all of ten minutes to decide I loved it and declare it the best place in China. And one if ...

It was time to get the train to Yangshuo. We were expecting the worse and we weren't entirely disappointed. We had opted for hard sleeper, the worse class. The train was no different to the others we have been on but our carriage was open the full length this time and stacked 3 beds high. So there was no privacy, less room than normal and it was very noisy, but it wasn't too bad. I didn't get much sleep I had the top bunk and the ceiling was so close i couldn't s...

We spent the morning doing boring stuff. Like washing and trying to slim down the amount we were carrying in our bags. We decided to send some stuff home, I can imagine how excited my family will be to receive a parcel all the way from China. and then their faces when thy open it up and find my old jeans and Steve's cast offs inside. The post office was typically Chinese. Sending a parcel involved filling out loads of forms which each cost money,and then lots of...