Saturday 7th April We woke up early, again! Today we were heading towards the countryside! Finally! I was looking forward to getting out of the big cities! We jumped on a private bus for just over an hour where we all pretty much slept. We got to Yangshuo, the first thing I noticed was how quiet it was, that maybe because it was 8 am in the morning, but if we were in the city it would already be busy. We arrived at our hotel and we had to wait till 2 pm fo...

Thursday 5th April I got no sleep on the train as my body knew we had to wake up at 5 am for a 6 am departure from the train. I am not impressed at seeing this time for the 4th time on this trip so far! We disembarked and waited at the station for 25 minutes for the subway to open, 7 am is a lovely time to travel in China there is no one around! After one change later we arrived at KFC, we had to wait around till 12 to catch a bus to the boat. Three hours to ki...

Monday 2nd April The lights got switched on sharp at 6:30 am, why do the Chinese need to go to sleep and wake up so early I do not know! We got off the train in Xi'an around 8:30 ish, were we had to catch a public bus to the hotel. Well…trying to get to the bus stop was a mission in itself. There were people EVERYWHERE! We managed to board the bus, which was tightly cramped, there are no limits of how many people can be standing on the bus! Luckily there wasn...

Friday 30th March Apparently the lights got switched on ay 6:30 am, however being on my high bed I had some protection! As the train was late we got in at 10:30 am not 9 am. We got off the train and went to the taxi rank; Leon gave us cards with the hotel name written on in Chinese to give to the driver! We arrived at the hotel and jumped in the shower, the hotel room was really nice actually! I was impressed. There was a hilarious bad translation, it was suppo...

Friday 23rd March Woke up around 9 am and had to wait out until 2 pm for our train to arrive in Beijing. I was very excited to return to Beijing, I was looking forward to eating something other than heavy meals for the next couple of weeks. I loved the dumplings and all that, but it was extremely heavy food and hearty! We met our new honcho Roxi (her English name, I don't even know how to pronounce her Chinese name!). We headed off to the hotel to shower and ...