We arrived in Xi'an late Friday night after a very long journey! We had left Yangshuo Thursday afternoon and caught a local bus to Gullin, from there we took a 27 hour hard sleeper train to Xi'an.The hard sleeper train was actually not as bad as it sounds, the bunks were actually more comfortable than the bed we had been sleeping on in Yangshuo! The trains are divided into cubicles, each one with 2 sets of 3 bunks. We had the middle bunks which are best as the bo...

We left Hong Kong on the high speed train service to Guangzhou, after passing through the border formalities we were thrown in at the deep end, we had to find our way across town to the bus station. Thankfully the underground system was really good and all automated - the first problem we faced was trying to book our bus ticket, we managed to get the wrong bus station where nobody spoke english!! When we did get to the right station the only tickets we could get ...