We had initially planned to spend one month in China. Sometime in our second week we realised that this was going to be nowhere near long enough to make the most of such a huge country. We eventually got a visa extension which allowed us an extra thirty days. Our China trip started in Beijing [...]
Our last stop in China Nanning. We hadn’t originally planned to visit Nanning as we were hoping to cross into Vietnam from Kumning (via Hekou). However recent torrential storms with subsequent flooding in the Lao Cai province of Vietnam meant this was not going to be possible. We were instead to cross from Nanning by [...]
The journey from Kaili to Kunming was probably our worst train journey so far on our trip. Up until this point we had been travelling using ‘soft sleeper’ class. This means you get 4 people sharing a relatively comfortable compartment with a door that closes to block out the noises from the rest of the [...]
Armed with our thirty day visa extension we decided to take the opportunity to venture off the tourist trail. Our trusted Rough Guide had all of two pages on travelling in the mountainous areas between Guanxi and Guizhou provinces. We had seen so much of urban China by this stage that we decided to give [...]
