AnnaW travels' Guestbook

Thanks Dave! Loving every bit of it!

Thanks for the warning :-) we've been to hanoi already, slightly behind with my blogs... We totally avoided sinh tours and you're very right! they are on every corner so you wouldn't even know which one is the real one... Thanks for reading!

I did Xi'an to Beijing with Dragoman on one of their trucks. The original plan was to do Kathmandu to Beijing via Tibet and northern parts of China with them, but there were some issues with Tibetan permits in March and the trip was cancelled. I thought then I might still give Dragoman a go and looked at different China options, but was left with Xi'an to Beijing option only for the dates I was interested in. Like you say Dragoman might be good on less travelled (or more difficult) routes, besides wild camping sounds like it could be fun as well. It wasn't the best option for this leg though... There was no wild camping, only way too overpriced hotels and since I started feeling comfortable travelling on my own in China after a few days there, the trip with Dragoman just turned out to be quite a big expense. Sometimes it took longer getting to our next destination with the truck than it would with local transport as well - getting lost and stuff like that. I did meet some nice people on the truck though but that would be the only good thing about the trip. So if I had to choose Dragoman again it would have to be in Africa only. Hope this helps. Thanks again for reading Bob! Kind regards :)

Like you said at least I had some decent weather on one day of trekking. The forecast was pretty bad for the next few days, so there was no point staying over there. But at least I have a good reason now to go back there one day! Regards