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Yesterday evening Tom arrived and we had a chat and a few beers, it was cool.
This morning I woke up early, showered with shampoo because I'd lost my soap(!) then had some breakfast. I got talking to some Australian girls again. They were sisters called Nicole and Alison. Thy were really friendly and decided to come to the Stone Forest (Shi Lin) with me so we left about 11am for the bus.
Our journey there was quite long winded, taxi, bus, then another bus, but luckily a random Chinese guy helped us. When we arrived we went straight into the park and got lost wandering around. We entertained ourselves by trying to decipher the Chinglish signs and picture shapes in the stones. After a couple of hours we realised we had an old Chinese man stalking us, but we managed to lose him and eventually made it out of the maze to get some lunch, at about 4:30pm!
It was really great to have a meal with other vegetarians and the food was really good and reasonably priced considering it was just outside the park. We pigged out on lots of veggies until we couldn't eat anymore.
We caught the last bus back to Kunming and I left Nicole and Alison to go in search of Walmart and western products. I then went back to the hostel and changed into my (finally dry) clean clothes then walked into the city centre to meet Tom and Sam at a bar in another hostel.
There I met some new people, Yurn (German guy), Jules (Irish girl), Marianne (French girl) and Lucas (English guy). We had some beers then got talking to some old Tibetan men at a table near us, who made no sense and kept giving us beer! We left after a while though once we realised they weren't going to leave us alone and we walked back to our hostel.
Tom and Sam went to bed, I internetted a little then grabbed a small beer and some noodles, I'm now chilling out by a "fire" :) x
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