Yesterday we found out, that because of the chinese holiday. The only tickets left for our over night journey to Chongqing, were for hard seats. No sleepers available for days..... As we had already travelled to Xi'an on hard seats, we decided to go for it. We knew the worst that could happen, was that we would not sleep. (How wrong we were) So we set out early, wanting to be near the front of the queue. (It's always a stampede for the overhead storage) We didn't want to be lumbered, nursing our backpacks for the whole 14 hours. As the stampede began, we battled through the crowds swinging over backpacks from side to side as we went. (Gives us great statifaction, knowing we can push people out our way for a change) Arrived on the
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