The rest of the coach journey yesterday was looong. I attempted to catch a bus to Cloudland Hostel but as I was trying to work out where to go, a taxi drove past and I was weak! When I was checking in at Cloudland I found Elisha! She was just checking out and heading back to the UK :( will be weird without her. We said our goodbyes then I went to get clean! When I got out of the shower I had a call from Elisha she was still in the city trying to get a taxi and w...

On Sunday evening I found Bacardi and Kevin, and Paul and Hannah joined the three of us for pizza. We went to the "Bad Monkey" bar and the pizza was brilliant, but it only came one at a time with about a 30 min break in between! Julz and Jorn also came to meet us in the bar but they didn't have any food. After we had finished eating we joined Kevin in another bar where he was going to play guitar. It was quite empty and there wasn't much guitar playing but we ha...

After breakfast yesterday I went for a walk into town. I walked around and up the walls, it was nice to get to know the town a bit better. I had quite a lazy day and stopped late afternoon for a burger (mushroom!) then I was bad and did some shopping... 108RMB for some jeans and a cardigan though is pretty good! I met Jules, Jorn and Marianne for tea, they were some people I met in Kunming, and then we had the worst apple crumble ever! We didn't stay out late be...

Yesterday I got up early and caught my bus to Dali. It was the same bus as the Aussie girls who were going to Lijiang so we were able to share a taxi. The bus journey was quite long with a lunch stop along the way and the worst toilets I've seen so far, no door and 2ft walls! When I arrived in Dali I got a taxi and found the hostel pretty easily. I'd been upgraded to a twin room for free because the dorm room was full of guys. The room was so nice! Keri was il...

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 ...