Day 30 We woke up early as we had a bus to catch to Jianshui, we tried to catch our last sunrise in Yuanyang but the cloud hadn't budged and was thicker than yesterday. We spoke to an american group over breakfast who had travelled NZ and SE Asia so got yet more advice and contact emails and packed for our bus. To get back to Xinjie we had to flag down a random minibus and ask him to take us which wasn't a problem. He picked up other fares and with us all bunc...

Day 28 Our bus to Yuanyang was at 12.30pm and was from the south bus station which required a 2 hour public bus journey from the centre so we set off early. After a confusing 30 minutes we managed to find the bus station from where the bus randomly decided to drop us off at. To our surprise our bus was actually a sleeper bus. Now this was unexpected luxury, Eve and I were for some reason given beds on the bottom and top bunks instead of together (as one side of ...

Day 25 We woke up on the moving train and arrived in to Kunming at 10:40am. It was the beginning of the all important national holiday so the place way busy, because of a language barrier in Emie we couldn't book our next set of railway tickets so we did this at the Kunming station. We didn't manage to get the dates we were looking for- which was the 6th, so ended up booked tickets out of Kunming on the 10th, meaning we get to see more of the Yunnan province so m...

Day 21 We packed for Emei and also picked up a traveller. Thomas decided to come with us to Emei as we were climbing Mount Emei (Emei Shan) which he also wanted to do, but as he was travelling by himself thought it would be an idea to go with somebody. So we caught the bus which took two hours to Emei central bus station, from there we caught a local bus to a village called Bagou. This is essentially the base camp for Emei Shan and is made for tourists with tour...

Day 18 We woke up on the train and realised we had another 5 hours or so to go. We both had top bunks which meant we couldnt sit up as the space was so small. All the chairs along the side were taken and we were sick of lying down, but there wasn't much we could do about it. We eventually arrived in Chengdu feeling a bit stiff at 12:40pm, 17 hours after leave Xi'an. On first inspection of our room we were blown away with the smell of damp but after a bit of com...