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Stuck in China
It's been an eventful few days.
We left Dali expecting it to take us one day to get to the boarder. How wrong we were, I'm not quite sure how we expected to travel 1000K in one day but hey ho. It ended up taking us four days to drive to the last town in China which is where I am now. The last day driving was particularly poo. I got up at 5.30am and packed up my tent in the rain, then got on the truck, as we were pulling away from our mud field campsite the truck sank so we spent the next hour and half digging it out! We then tried to race for the Laos boarder and came across a landslide! We then spent six hours there waiting to get through. We eventually did at the same time that the boarder closed! The only consolation was that because we had missed the boarder we stayed in a town. I had my first proper meal in two days (up till then that day I'd had 2 bananas, 2 biscuits,pot noodle and a handful of walnuts!) We got to stay in a hotel (although a very strange one,me and Dave have two erotica posters on our room wall?!) and I had my first shower in 5 days! Woohoo! Thinking that we would just be staying one night we were all packed up and ready for the boarder the next morning. but no such luck! We did not have the paperwork that we need to exit the country. For some unknown reason it is locked in a cupboard at the post office and the man with the key has disappeared! So we've now stayed in this strange little town with shops, Internet and restaurants for two extra nights. Luckily we moved out of the knocking shop hotel and are now in a lot nicer cleaner hotel. Hopefully we will be able to leave tomorrow. China has been good fun but the lure of fresh french bread that awaits us in Laos is starting to become depressing!
We have all admitted that we've had or have the halfway blues. A lot of China has been spent on the truck just travelling and we all want to see a bit more. One of my favourite things about china has been the restaurants. The language barrier is dissolved by us walking into the kitchen and picking our dinner. If we can't see what we want sounds and animal impressions help and lead to a lot of giggles. It's really good fun! I also loved walking around this town in particular because it's not touristy at all and we really are an interesting sight. There is a park up the road which is currently full of people doing tai chi, a line dancing class, random games of badminton, kids running around playing chase and shed loads of other folk just chilling out. A wicked spot for people watching!
I've added some more pics and a video of Everest base camp, I hope you enjoy.
Please keep your fingers crossed for me that I can get to Laos tomorrow!
Lots of love Nicole xxxx
P.s I brought and read Harry Potter in China, I loved it! x
It's been an eventful few days.
We left Dali expecting it to take us one day to get to the boarder. How wrong we were, I'm not quite sure how we expected to travel 1000K in one day but hey ho. It ended up taking us four days to drive to the last town in China which is where I am now. The last day driving was particularly poo. I got up at 5.30am and packed up my tent in the rain, then got on the truck, as we were pulling away from our mud field campsite the truck sank so we spent the next hour and half digging it out! We then tried to race for the Laos boarder and came across a landslide! We then spent six hours there waiting to get through. We eventually did at the same time that the boarder closed! The only consolation was that because we had missed the boarder we stayed in a town. I had my first proper meal in two days (up till then that day I'd had 2 bananas, 2 biscuits,pot noodle and a handful of walnuts!) We got to stay in a hotel (although a very strange one,me and Dave have two erotica posters on our room wall?!) and I had my first shower in 5 days! Woohoo! Thinking that we would just be staying one night we were all packed up and ready for the boarder the next morning. but no such luck! We did not have the paperwork that we need to exit the country. For some unknown reason it is locked in a cupboard at the post office and the man with the key has disappeared! So we've now stayed in this strange little town with shops, Internet and restaurants for two extra nights. Luckily we moved out of the knocking shop hotel and are now in a lot nicer cleaner hotel. Hopefully we will be able to leave tomorrow. China has been good fun but the lure of fresh french bread that awaits us in Laos is starting to become depressing!
We have all admitted that we've had or have the halfway blues. A lot of China has been spent on the truck just travelling and we all want to see a bit more. One of my favourite things about china has been the restaurants. The language barrier is dissolved by us walking into the kitchen and picking our dinner. If we can't see what we want sounds and animal impressions help and lead to a lot of giggles. It's really good fun! I also loved walking around this town in particular because it's not touristy at all and we really are an interesting sight. There is a park up the road which is currently full of people doing tai chi, a line dancing class, random games of badminton, kids running around playing chase and shed loads of other folk just chilling out. A wicked spot for people watching!
I've added some more pics and a video of Everest base camp, I hope you enjoy.
Please keep your fingers crossed for me that I can get to Laos tomorrow!
Lots of love Nicole xxxx
P.s I brought and read Harry Potter in China, I loved it! x
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