DAY 22 - 09-02-2009 TRAVELLING AGAIN

Another travelling day today. Had to start catching the same public buses back to Guilin at 1pm, which meant getting there at 12pm to make sure we could sit down.

Spent the morning wandering round Deadwood, we followed a trail of fresh blood (serioulsy) for about 20 mins, never saw the injuried party. We were follwed by a troop of dogs, never seen the breed before, they just known locally ast guard dogs - look like wolves.

Got the bus for a couple of hours, did the swap with another bus again, then a couple more hours back to Guilin.

Guilin is dirty and it stinks.

Went to the worst bog on my whole life. Worse than a 5 day old Glastonbury long drop. The smell of ammonia sindged the hairs off your eyeballs it was that strong. There were turds in every corner of the room and just a Roman style trough that ran through the building that everyone did their buisness, in hope that it would flow down way from them into another poor souls path - BAD TIMES ! ! ! !

We had 5 1/2 hours to kill in Guilin before a 16 hour hard sleeper to Hong Kong. 5 1/2 hours in smelly Guilin.

John, Rachael, Sophie, Heather and me walked round, got racially abused by the internet lady, found some edible food and came across a fantastic lake with one of those 9 cornered bridges of death (like in Shanghai) leading to a temple in the middle of the lake. No people of the bridge this time so just a bridge! Had our pictures taken by more chinese.

Last day of spring fest so loads more fire crackers going off.

John gave an English lesson to a Chinese lass in a coffe shop.

Got on the sleeper @ 10pm. We had a Chinese lass in with us this time, she snored all night. Half way through the night the underwire in her bra pinged off and fell on the floor. Me and John named her Ping Ping the snoring lady.

The novelty of overnight sleepers has worn off now I think, no one takes any photos and theres no general excitment for spending the best part of a day cramped up in a bunk anymore.
Still, good crack was had!!!!