6th September 2007 and we arrive in Guillin a small but pictureesque city seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

Day one arriving shattered after a mammoth 26 hour train journey, most of it spent asleep although a small part was being spent sitting in the restaurant carriage watching the weird and quite disgusting habits of the workers eating. They put there food on the table clothes then the maides merely wipe off the big chunks of food and put another table cloth on top. And we certainly wouldn't touch the fruit trolley after we saw the guy blow is nose all over it, lovely!!

Checked into the hostel and got a taxi to the Red Flute cave. Taxi driver Trevor or Sun not sure was an absolute legend and would be our taxi man for everything. The cave was quite call to see and we even got a bamboo boat ride after for "very good price" apparently, although it would appear everyone wants to give you a very good price. We had a tour booked for the morning to go on the River Li but thought it would be fun to check out the nightlife here.

Had a few drinks and using the local phrase of "Gambey" had an interesting night drinking the local Wodka spelt with a W before you question. Gambey being down your drink. A few later and a lot of high 5's with the locals and it was time for the club. A very good night, dancing on the speakers.

7/9/07 - Feeling tired and hungover we wake up and John says sorry boys won't be coming on the River Li today. He would be spending the day checking out the local lavortories. The River Li was good to see but I wouldn't recommend the 4 hour boat trip along, the views become a bit "same same".

The boat took us to a plce called Yangshou which was a lively little town were we had a nice massage to top off the day.

08/09/07 - We spent the day on a bus travelling to Hong Kong, not fun took about 16 hours, I got about a couple of hours sleep in between boucing out of bed because of the poor roads.

Next stop HongKong