Sunday 22nd April Today we checked out to go to Monkey Island, we grabbed breakfast/brunch before meeting at Monkey Republic to get the bus to the boat. We had to pick up some more travellers before we got to the boat at the bus station. We arrived there, no one was there. So we went to the boat, Micky (one of the staff from the island who picked us up, who is a girl by the way) got a call saying the bus has arrived. So we turned back around, we were so close to...

Sunday 15th April We got up and had breakfast while waiting for our pick up to the bus station and hopped aboard. We were pleased it had A/C as it was extremely warm (we have found out that April is the hottest month of the year, followed by the rainy season in May, timing again!). The bus took around four hours to arrive at Sihanoukville's bus station. The heavens had opened at this point and torrential rain soaked us. We found ourselves a tuk-tuk to take us to...

Tuesday 11th April We on our last overnight train in China and for our tour, it's very sad. We arrive early in the morning at the Chinese border; we all get off the train and start walking for 10 minutes to the border control. This is quite a weird border crossing in my opinion! We get to the Chinese side and get stamped out ok, and then we needed to walk to the next border! It took a little while, which seemed to take longer as we were all carrying our entir...

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...