Friday, September 29, 2006

To Guizhou

So time to hit the road again.
I got an overnight train to Guiyang in Guizhou provence.
Sleeper trains in china are rows of bunks three high, always pick the top one.
It means that you wont have people staring at you all night, you're too high.
Arrived in the morning in Guiyang and after wandering a bit, decided what else can you do when you're exhausted from traveling all night but travel some more, so got on a bus to Kaili a few hours further west.
Kaili which is still a big town is quite near several pituresque minority villages.
There was a bus leaving straight away for a village that I wanted to visit which was in the right direction for me called Xijiang so I hopped on the bus.
I neglected to use an atm in Kaili which was a bit of a mistake.
There should have been a big sign on leaving the town reading, "you are now leaving the international banking system, no working atms for the next 4 days worth of bus journeys", but that only occured to me later.

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