This morning we woke up early for a good feed in the hotel before setting off on another 14km trek. This time though, we aren't coming back tonight, we're staying with a Black H'mong minority family in the village of Tarvan. Black H'mong wear dirfferent clothes to the Red Dao and are also Catholic whereas the Red Dao are buddhist. Our guide today is Mang, a lively 19 year old Black H'mong with interesting views and very modern for the region. We set off on a trac...

Well, we just aboutmade it over the border on a night bus from China! I think that bus journey has been the single most challenging part of our trip so far!! When boarding the bus which we hoped was the right one, we got ripped off by some dude claiming to be the "manager" who wanted to charge us 30 Yuan each as a "bag Tax" for extra fuelo - what cr*p, we did however pay him 50 as he was threatening to take opur bags off the bus - one for the ...