We arrived in Sanya bus station at 1pm in the blistering heat dressed for rain as it had been in Yangshuo. Our tops were sticking to us in a matter of minutes. To find our hostel the only instructions we had were get on bus number 3 or 4, obviously these buses were going two directions, so I guessed left, after a few minutes we were no wiser and standing with all the weight of our bags on a packed bus, not so fun. Fortunately I picked the right(correct) way and we jumped off and head down a small alley with [View Full Entry]

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Woke up to our first day of rain in Yanshuo, fortunately we were leaving today. After breakfast we finished packing up and began our travels to Hainan! Our bus to Guilin was stopping constantly trying to gather any stragglers to bump their wage for the day I guess! It ended up arriving in Guilin far later than we anticipated but we were lucky that another was running in an hour. After some corn on the cob and spicy sausage we were loading onto the bus. No room in luggage section so all bags were rammed in the aisle, clearly not designed [View Full Entry]

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Simply absorbed the scenery today, took a little stroll along the river and took some snaps. Food was provided by a lady on sticks!!! Again!!!! But sooooo good!! Time to head home to pack for the next adventure! Its gonna be a long one!! [View Full Entry]

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We head out for the park and this is where Man Hill(Xilang Shan) is, said to resemble a young man bowing and scraping to a shy young girl represented by Lady Hill(xiaogu shan). Other hills nearby are named after animals like Crab Hill, Swan Hill, Dragon Head Hill. In the actual park were lots of elderly men playin card games and also a board game translated to 'Go' I think, all looked confusing but they seemed to be having a barrel of laughs!! Also in the park were multiple exercising benchs and bars and all sorts of cool things, quite common [View Full Entry]

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After breakfast on the roof terrace we did some investigation and found that to get to Hainan we needed bus tickets from Guilin, so I had to get the hour and half bus journey back into manic Guilin!! It was quite nice just watching the world go by on the bus, the views were just out of this world, the 'karsts' randomly but fantastically ddotted about, and so many people were just sat in their garden doing nothing, why is it that my life evolves around computers and television and many more irrelevant things! I will take this into consideration when [View Full Entry]

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Under the weather today, me more so. Laura went for some noodles for me, and she had corn on the cob, pretty much did nothing until night time. We head out for food and had pizza and burger and chips. Best part of the day was Laura running away from a spider the size of her head that was in the restaurant, so funny!! [View Full Entry]

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We had to leave quite early today to get the airport by bus. After security and check in we bought some spicy noodles and gobbled them up waiting for our flight. There was a short delay but no too bad. The flight was good, only two and a half hours, the inflight food was better, even better knowing what to expect when it came to our table! Rice, meat, a roll, and desert, good!! When we arrived in Guilin we had to get a packed shuttle bus with our bags practically on my lap and in the corridor(no health and safety [View Full Entry]

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We were stuck to the hostel in the morning because we had problems with our flights. We had local noodles from a lady in a little shack outside our hostel, really good, spicy and with nuts too!! Had to head to the market again to pick up my shirts so on the way we decided to have a look around the science and technology museum. It was too much to go inside but being fully glazed we could see all to offer, and it also had a CRYSTAL MAZE outside, but without Richard O'Brien though!! My shirts needed some tweaking when [View Full Entry]

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Today we decided to explore the French Concession. The weather was miserable, heavy rain! But the hustle and bustle of the busy little side streets and unusual array of stores and restaurants was cool. Simply watching the chaos of a traffic jam was interesting, beeping and shouting doesnt always speed things up however. I was really desperate for a coffe and a cake yet this appeared to be impossible, and against my better judgement we ended up in Starbucks!! After a look around we had to head back to Yatai Xingyuang market to pick up Laura's dress, I decided to get [View Full Entry]

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Had a lazy day today, started with fruit, yoghurt and coffee for breakfast. Did some planning for other trips which took a while. Spicy food and a film at the hostel in the evening. [View Full Entry]

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