Today we woke up naturally at around 9 am. This is extremely unusual for me as I hate mornings. It's also good Melissa is here because as soon as I hear her stirring I am up and in the shower. It will be interesting to see how things change when it's Becky I am travelling with. Haha. We showered and headed to the supermarket to pick up breakfast and a picnic as we were headed to 7 star park ; a big nature area. I bought watermelon and yoghurt and crackers and swe...

I woke up this morning in the same pool of sweat as yesterday. However I have figured out the problem! The aircon unit is beside the girl on the bunk beside me but we all have individual curtains that we can draw. During the night all the cool air is blowing into her bunk while the rest of us are melting! I think she realised because she woke up this morning and said 'guys I am so sorry!'. Poor girl. The room was so hot that the watermelon I purchased yesterday i...

Today I woke up and I'm pretty certain you could have fried an egg on my forehead. The room was roasting! Waking up covered in sweat is pretty rank, but never fear, WADA hostel offers a cold shower 24/7! Ha ha. I jumped in the shower and got ready for the day. We walked to the supermarket to check out the scope for breakfast. I picked up some Dragon fruit and water. A tasty and healthy breakfast! We sat outside McDonalds on a curb like two classy birds and munche...

The train journey was suprisingly pain free, depsite being woken up by kids kicking and screaming below our bunks! Mel and I clambered our way down from our bunks, and munched on our subways. A good hearty breakast. After we had woken it took us a couple of hours to get into Guilin. On the way in , the place looked like a mixture of fields and run down shanty towns. We were sort of wondering where this train was taking us to! We eventually pulled into Guilin trai...

Today was our last day in shanghai so we woke up around 11 (very tired), packed up all out stuff and left it at reception. We went to the little street food man and picked up more noodles for breakfast. His noodles were ace, il miss that guy! Apparently having westerners eat your food attracts more locals business, and he was always chuffed we were buying his food! Mel and I also picked up a footlong subway each. One for dinner on the train and then one for break...