Oh I feel really sad to be leaving China tomorrow. It's the first place I've been sad to leave (except England of course). The more I see of it the more I love it. The people here are so lovely and friendly and I haven't met anyone who has been nasty or mean or anything, which is very unusual! Each place I've been to in China has been completely different as well, even the cities, although they are all essentially the same. Nanning is in Guangxi, which is the m...

I'm so behind I'm having to write my blogs in twos and in the place after stuff actually happened. I think I'd got to the end of my day in Lijiang. Travelling again overnight by sleeper bus I made it into Kunming early in the morning, dropped my bag off at the train station and set off to find my train tickets. I only booked my train tickets in advance through Vodka Train because I needed proof of exit from China (I've since found out I could have just shown the...

I have had an action packed few days since my last entry and am now having a much needed rest day. Having planned to go to Lijiang by sleeper bus I was just on the point of setting off when an American guy Eligh appeared. When I told him I was going to do the Tiger Leaping Gorge trek (described by another American guy I'd met earlier as "epic-ness on a grand scale") Eligh got very excited and asked to tag along, so having found a friend we set off tog...