We have arrived in Hong Kong, and we absolutely love it! Our 8 hour bus ride from Yangshuo to Shenzhen was pretty okay and we had managed to grab a taxi from here on to the subway to Hong Kong with some fellow westerners we had met on the bus. Our hostel was nice ish and we were sharing with just one other traveller - a girl from Brazil. Everywhere you look here you are surrounded by huge skyscrapers with business men and women hurrying around you everywhere. We...

After a 22 hour train journey from Kunming on a hard seat (as on booking no beds were available), we were looking pretty bedraggled and in need of a bed. Not quite there yet though we arrived in Guillin and had to find the local bus to Yangshuo. We found it eventually and arrived finally after 1 more hour. Checked in to our hostel and slept! The next few days we spent exploring Yangshuo and recovering! Parts of this town are extremely touristy (but only with Chi...

So we have arrived in China!!!! Wow it is soo different here compared to the rest of South East Asia. Not a singal letter of English can be seen here never mind the hearing of it! We eventually found our hostel after an eventful day of travelling by bus to Kunming's outskirts and then a taxi ride in to the city centre. That makes it sound easy but it certainly wasn't! A lot of guess work was done and hand signalling! But we made it! Kunming's highland scenery ...

Had a 10 hour night bus from Hanoi to Sapa - it seems like every time we get on one of these buses the Vietnamese stick all the Westerners at the back of the bus (with the hot engine underneath us, and the rear suspension - or what's left of it rattling away) whilst all the locals get all the nice separate spacious beds in the middle and front of the bus! So sat at the back we were sharing with 4 guys from Kent, 1 French girl and 1 Chinese guy. It was certainly ...

2 days 1 night booked, a deluxe tour of Halong Bay! We are picked up from our hostel the following morning, for once on time, we trawled the busy streets of Hanoi filling the minibus with other people who would be sharing our experience, a diverse bunch, some Americans, Spanish, German, Russian, French and another Brit. We set off out of the city and 4 hours later we arrived at the harbour, wow we knew this place was popular but this was mass tourism at its wors...