From Lhasa we headed to Hong Kong for a few days. To get there we had to get a 3 day train from Lhasa to Guangzhou. We decided to treat ourselves to a bit of luxury and got a soft sleeper. This meant we got our own compartment with a tv each and the most luxury of all.....a door! We have never had such a quiet train journey, as soon as that door shuts it's just silence. This meant we had a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep.

We hadn't taken any food on the train with us so were relying on their food carts. On the trans Siberian they had menus and quite a selection, so we were hoping for that on the Chinese train. Unfortunately they had a piece of paper written in Chinese with no English speaking people.

We decided the best tactic was just to point at what other people had on their table and hope the same turned up at ours. It was quite amusing being among Chinese people again. Disgust is probably the best word to use to describe how we were looked at. As soon as you walk in the food cart everyone stops and just stares. People even turn their seats to get a better look!

Luckily for us we find this quite amusing and quite like to joke with the non English speaking people that our white faces bemuse us too!

We arrived in Guangzhou after a fairly uneventful few days, refreshed and ready to catch our bus to Hong Kong.

We only stayed one night and decided to treat ourselves to a Pizza Hut! This was our first real western food since we left home so it was much appreciated. That night we just wandered around Guangzhou, it's a busy little place and seems very diverse. Not the typical China we are used to!

The next morning we got up early and made our way to a local hotel. There we caught the bus to Hong Kong. The journey was a hectic one, border crossings are definitely easier on trains! We were made to get on and off the bus three times, and with each time they made you get all your luggage too. But after what felt like endless queues, we got the stamp we needed and we were in! The bus cleverly dropped us in the middle of nowhere, on a random backstreet in Hong Kong with no map. This wasn't the most helpful way to start a new city, but oh well!