Woke early to catch the train from HK to Guangzhou East, with only a rough idea of how we were going to get across the rest of China; the lack of a guidebook, other travellers or the internet for reference made it all abit tricky! Sad to be leaving Hong Kong but excited to be moving on to the next step... After arrival in Guangzhou around 1pm we were told by an information helpdesk that our planned sleeper train to Nanning was "sold out" which, upon re...

Woke early to catch the train from HK to Guangzhou East, with only a rough idea of how we were going to get across the rest of China; the lack of a guidebook, other travellers or the internet for reference made it all abit tricky! Sad to be leaving Hong Kong but excited to be moving on to the next step... After arrival in Guangzhou around 1pm we were told by an information helpdesk that our planned sleeper train to Nanning was "sold out" which, upon re...