Next day and we both felt like crap! We had to get up out and move on! After much talk of whether it was possible to do a boat trip from Yangshao, our next stop, instead of paying the 400 yuan trip price from Guilin, we decided to just wing it. We went to the train station first and purchased our train tickets to Xi'an (27hrs on a train) for about 370yuan each for a hard sleeper. Then to the bus station where we got 20yuan bus tickets for the two hour trip do...

The train pulled into the station at about 9am, and ignoring the touts, me and English guy made our way into town on foot. It was a rainy old day and all we had was the map in his lonely planet guide. I had cancelled my hostel, but as I hadn't been in contact with Jenny who I was to meet here for a few days, I thought going there would be a safe bet! As it turned out I completely walked past my place and ended up at the backpacker hostel instead, about a mil...