Soo, nite bus in Japan: beautiful, effecient, clean, lights off and tucked up by 8.30, arrive on time, well rested the next day. Nite bus in China: get told several different times, so we ran to the bus station to be told that there was no bus for 1hour, only for the girl from our hostel to follow us to say that we should have stayed at the hostel as they would collect us!! (The last journey had to be tricky to be true of our travel in China!) Anyway, get on the bus to find that we have floor level beds, and the spaces between the beds are sold (read 'backhander' to driver) to those who cant afford tickets: Tom and I end up with a rather stinky dirty chinese man in the approx. 1
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