so last time i wrote it was beautiful sunshine but now its misty and raining!!!!!! typical - we spent just about 26 hours on a sleeper bus from Sanya to Guilin on the mainland and arrived to rain. at least im not feeling so homesick now coz the weather makes me feel like im back in good old medway!! i would recommend that if you ever find yourselves on a sleeper bus in china that you get the bottom bunk and preferably one by the window. i however was on the t...

We have been in the province of Hainan now for three days and have managed to do quite a lot. We actually left Hong Kong four days ago and it took us around 24 hours to get to the very south of this province which is the island off of the south coast of china. We left Hong Kong at about 12 noon on monday and got a bus to Hung Hom train station, where we caught a train to Guangzhou in the Guangdong province of China. From there we got on a bus to Haikou on the ...