China

Continuing on from Hong Kong i saw the light show it was really pretty. All of the buildings star in a light show as funny as that sounds and put on a display. The night market was really cool brought a few things for my travels i tried bargaining the price but no1 would jump haha not happy. I got a 12 hour bus ride to Nanning, China. The buses dnt have seats thy are overnight bunkers and u have ur own little bed to sleep on cool idea.
China has been an experience!!
When I arrived to Nanning i Had no idea where to go next I wanted to gt to Laos but no one knew where that was. China is alot different to Hong Kong. Barely anyone speaks english here and there is no english written anywhere like there is in HK. So I found a guy that spoke english and he wrote down a town in china and said to go there. All i knew was that it was going to be a 17 hour bus ride and it was near Laos, no idea what it was called only in Chinese. So I brought the ticket and was on my way. What started out being a 17 hour bus ride... ended up being a 36 hour bus ride!!!!! it was quite an experience. Although it was tough I am glad because I got to see how the traditional chinese live. There are little villages in the middle of no where exactly what u see in the movies. Chinese ladies and children just able to walk carrying baskets on there backs collecting vegetables. Males and women walking animals along the roads and harvesting land. Children playing and every1 staring at me as if they had never seen a foreigner before. There is no electricity and people live off what they grow. The roads are tiny and packed with trucks and overnight bunker buses. The drivers are crazy!!! Their favourite object is the horn. Beeping at everything in sight to get out of the way. The Chinese law is to drive on the right side of the road bu the drivers law is to drive where ever the hell you want and do it as fast as you can (even if that place is on a mountain cliff).
36 hours after departure I arrived at my destination.. where ever that was??? At 1am. I was surrounded by chinese people trying to talk to me I had no idea what i was going to do. I was so weak because I had not eaten all day and just wanted to lie down somewhere.. anywhere!
A lady finally gould speak a little english and asked where I was going she could not understand and aid she would take me to a cheap hotel. So we bargained on a price and she took me to a hotel, which suprisingly ended up being a hostel yay! I had my own room, hot water, an electri blanket.. and breakfast included in the morning. And the best part is I was in Kunming the city I wanted to be in all along. Its amazing how things just work out! Everything was exactly how I wanted it to be!
So it is now the next morning and I have booked a bus to Hekou, which is the border of China and Vietnam and I will arrive in the morning 12 hours later. Then off to Sapa and Hanoi, then down the coast of Vietnam. First thing I am doing is getting a massage I can not wait. I am skipping Laos for now as my visa for Vietnam is for the 3/3 so maybe I'll go there later in my trip.
I will update you all on Vietnam when I can. x