Before we left Guilin to spend a few days in Yangshuo we needed to buy our train tickets back to Beijing. At the train station there were around 20 counters, half of them open with huge lines of people waiting. One of the closed counters was especially for VIPs, politicians, people who had distinguished themselves in some way, and foreign guests. As it was due to open a few hours later we waited patiently, hoping for someone who could help non-Chinese speakers. When we came back and reached the front of the queue we were however, informed (in Chinese) that there were no more tickets for the day we wanted to travel. Nor for the next day, nor for the next day after that, and so forth. So, with little hope we left to try to
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