So I'm a little late getting up but Fei Fei is still here so we go for some breakfast across the road, I have bowser. Luckily I narrowly miss a run in with some crazy girl who had shown more than a passing interest with me the night before. Then Fei Fei has asked about the buses so she knows the score, I just tag along. A short walk and we are ready to take our bus. The usual mayhem on the roads and as we are stopped at some lights I get to witness my first road ...

I peel myself out of bed at about 10, this was after I got back to sleep at 7 when an army of Chinese came into my room and started talking very loudly. No consideration. I get in to the common room and I meet Jan, we head across the road for some breakfast. I got bowser, that is not how it's spelt, but how it sounds. It is like a dumpling with bread and some meat inside, it's a bit dry but otherwise quite tasty! 4yuan for 4, can't be bad to that! Back to the hos...

I spend the morning in Mix Hostel, trying to get some accommodation for Guilin. It's only a few days away and I'm thinking that I may have to book an expensive hotel as all the cheap places appear to be taken. As I'm checking out the girls ask me where I am going and I tell them it's Guilin after Chengdu, but that I don't have anywhere to stay. One of the girls gets a bunch of leaflets for places in Guilin an says that sometimes if you phone you can get a bed. Sh...

4am, still raining, time to go. We get our stuff ready and get our gear on. Then it's time to go. Head torch on, it's pitch black out here, we leave our luxury abode and off we go. No talking. Steps, steps, steps, in the dark, with no sense of distance travelled or remaining. Rain pelting our clothes, face down, on foot in front of the other. Monotony. After about 40mins of climbing we come across another area with a lot of houses, it's also where the cable car t...

Hike day! 7am comes quick and with it I am enthused and jump out of my still damp bed. I head down to the desk and meet the Swedes and we get some breakfast, bacon and eggs. That should keep me going for a while. We had ordered some food from the restaurant the night before so we get bacon and egg sandwiches, an apple and a bottle of water, that'll do for lunch. Of course I have all the usual, snickers, nuts and sweets for energy during the climb. Today I am spor...