Well the train journey to Hanzhou was fantastic. Everything went well the train pulled out of the station ontime, we got what we wanted two lower bunks, soft sleeper, clean bedding supplied clean toilets (of the squat variety of course) and the scenery moved. It was brilliant. At first we we followed the river which looked very dirty the towns looked dismal with a lot of hydro electric scemes along it. The motion of the train soon had us dozing off, watching and then eating as the food trolley whizzed by with delicious food - cabbage, chicken, tofu and rice it was all yummy and only 10 yuan which is about R10.00 what a deal. So the day passed by really quickly and after a good nights sleep -there is nothing like sleeping on the train,
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