At 10pm 12/04 we got on an overnight bus to Hue. The bus journey was memorable but not in a good way. Meg was squashed up against the wall by a big german girl who then proceeded to try and spoon Met during the night...i think he liked it really! We arrived in Hue and were bombarded with touts trying to give us motorbike rides. Luckily the bus droped up near our hotel. We spent the first day looking around the historic ruins of the city including a royal palac...

We arrived in Ninh Binh 12/04 - 3 hours from Hanoi. A welcome relief from the bustling city of Hanoi. You can walk down the streets without being hasseled. On the first day we stayed local and visited the very western style cathedral. We did get hasseled by children who kept holding out their hands asking for money. The evening consisted of being bitten by mosquitos...thankfully not a malaria area. We planned to visit some local caves and lagoons the next day b...

Arrived in Pingxiang 08/04. Not much happening there but we stayed one night ready for our early departure to the Vietnam border. 09/04 we caught a rickshaw to the border - Very bumpy ride for about 40 mins. We arrived and got through the borders really quick... Tearfully saying good bye to China! Part two - VIETNAM When we got through the border we almost got scammed by these dodge taxi drivers. We insisted they took us to the bus station at Lang son to go t...

We arrived in Nanning 06/04. The Hotel we are staying in is quite nice and its only 5 pounds a night. Nanning is a lot nicer than Guangzhou. Its not as busy, cleaner and lots of little nice shops and food places making it more quaint than a major City. So far we have had a really nice time here. The first day spent wandering the streets, buying met flip flops and walking to a Nanhu park with a huge lake. The weather here is really hot, and very humid but makes a...

We caught the train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou (03/04), planning to get the train from here to Hainan. We were told that we couldn't book the overnight train from Guanzhou until we were back in China. However, we arrived at the station and waited in a queue for about an hour for a women who didnt speak english to simply say 'no' and send us away. By this time it was late afternoon so we set out to find somewhere to stay. Guangzhou was absoloutely rammed with p...