Vietnam Part 1 22/02/10 I woke up in what seemed to be a bare room and packed up the last of my belongings. 11.55 I met Lloyd in the lobby where we both settled the bill before heading back to the airport, we felt like we could probably complete the 45 minute trip blindfolded. We checked our bags in, ate a burger king and shopped for around for a few pointless goods, trying to spend the last few Hong Kong dollars we had. It was only a two hour flight to Vietna...

Hong Kong 08/02/10 10.00, checked out of He Dong hotel and caught a taxi to the train station. I was feeling pretty grim - hot then freezing cold again (man flu at its worst). To make matters worse our taxi driver crashed into another taxi right near the station, after a bit of banter our driver popped a note into the other drivers pocket and he was soon back behind the wheel again. At the station you simply follow signs for Hong Kong and eventually pass throu...

Shenzhen (Guangdong Province) 4/02/10 14.00 Paracetamols for breakfast before packing up our stuff for a thirteen hour train to Shenzhen. We had to go back to Guilin first which took a couple of hours; we then spent a few hours in a restaurant just killing time. Our train was a 21.30 pm and we felt rough all day, when we sat down in the train station all we wanted to do is sleep but we were approached by a Shaolin Monk who insisted to show me a few Kung Fu mo...

Yichang (Hubei Province) 23/01/10 The hotel manager who we called Gow was a great help, he arranged our onward train ticket and we didn't even have to leave the hotel for this service. We had breakfast / lunch in a shopping mall, again the mall was a busy place and everyone seemed to be looking at us especially when it came to paying for the goods. We eventually figured out that to buy something you need a store card which you charged up, anyway by the time we'...

The Yellow River Datong (Shanxi Province) 11/01/10 11.30 the train changed platform; if you could read Chinese you would have quite clearly noticed this, however me and James can just about say 'hello' and 'thank-you' which didn't help us in this situation. The train was due to leave in five minutes and there was no show of it or any passengers, thankfully a kind Chinese lad pointed us in the right direction and we just made it. Getting to our seats was agai...