After a crazy police chase like taxi ride/dash to the Chinese border, we went through immigration on foot. Luckily it was quite early in the morning, there were no crowds & we pretty much breezed though both the Vietnamese & Chinese border checks. We were met on the Chinese side by a local operator, who's bus took us to our 'resort style' accommodation in Guangxi. Upon checkin the place was deserted, with not another soul in sight apart from staff. That was until the hoards arrived on a tour bus & a quiet rest turned into a stampede of Chinese tourists up & down the wooden hotel stairs. Fortunately Snow had arranged a boat trip up the river to view some cliff paintings, which apparently date back about 1500 years. Not even close to Australia's Aboriginal
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