Greetings from Guilin!Well we arrived in Guilin after a nice short flight from Xi'an and made our way to our Hostel. On arriving we were told that we were the first ever guests as it had just opened and we got our two night stay for free along with a welcome beer or coffee, nice one. We were also upgraded to a private room instead of the dorm we booked, even better. The following morning we woke up to pouring rain outside, felt like we were at home. We went f...

Ni Hao - Chinese for Hello from Xi'an, Central China We arrived here at around 9am in the morning after a 12 hour sleeper train from Beijing. We had to book the more expensive soft sleeper rather than the hard sleeper due to them all being booked up. At least we would get a good nights sleep ..... or so we thought. In our 4 Bed cabin we shared it with a Chinese couple in their early 20's which the male snored louder than a grunting Wild Boar. So we arrived at...

Well after saying our goodbyes to Joyce and thanking her very much for her hospitality we started making our way to Beijing, the train ride was about 2 and half hours and fairly simply, we were told when we get off at Colombo Fort just cross the road and take the number 187 bus to the airport....simple. We soon found out that trying to get on a bus is not so easy here, they don't actually stop as such, but just slow down. It was also dark and very busy with ab...