Today was a fairly short walk downhill from Ping'an where we caught a bus back to Guilin. We got back to Guilin and had 6 hours to kill before we could pick up our bags from the train station where we had left them a couple of days before catching the overnight train to Hong Kong.

Most of us headed to the nearest internet cafe as this would pass some time. While here I checked Intrepid’s website and also the Foreign Office website to see what the situation in Bangkok had got like. Intrepid said that the trips were going on as planned and the Foreign Office was advising that people reconsider their travel plans. I still had a few days to decide what to do, but I would probably go anyway.

After surfing for a while, Craig & Jess and I went off for a walk in Guilin and in a few camera and electrical shops to pass the time. We bumped into Tom & Sarah along our way, while they were heading back.

Another couple of hours passed and the 3 of us went for some dinner before meeting up with the group at the luggage lockers at 8pm. We collected out bags, headed over to the waiting room and boarded our 16 hour hard sleeper train to Shenzhen, at the China / Hong Kong border.