A long journey, full of surprises. Unfortunately, the seats in the bullet trains from Guangzhou to Guiyang were all booked. I should have booked earlier, a lesson learned. Few places for the 12:00 train, without seat, were still available. So I had to wait for 2.5 hours, and had to stand in the train for nearly half the time of the 5h30 journey. Next, the bus between Guiyang North station and Guiyang Central station took nearly one hour instead of the announced 20 minutes. Finally I had to take the 21:00 train to Kaili, arriving there at 23:30. Surprise, when showing the hotel address to the taxi drivers. Discussing thanks to Google translate tool on my tablet (fortunately with the language kits Chinese, English, Dutch and French downloaded from home, as none of the Google stuff
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