Month: July 2025

Day 57 (20th July) Hanoi to Sapa On the previous evening, the hotel screwed up in not telling the taxi driver that his company had been paid for him to … Read more

We got up at 6 am to have breakfast and wait for a taxi which would take us to the Emperor Hotel in the Old City where we would get … Read more

We were knackered by the long bus ride from Guilin to Hanoi and had a relaxing day, on the 17th doing absolutely nothing. We ate in the hotel in the … Read more

The internet (bollox alert) says that the bus to Vietnam leads from the International Tourist Centre located near the railway station. So I trudged there in the stifling heat, only … Read more

The hotel got a taxi to take us to Guilin City Station and we booked tickets for Nanning. Unfortunately a man across the railway carriage aisle was snooking loudly for … Read more

Today was filled with experiences which left us utterly exhausted by the end of the day. We had booked a cruise down the Lijiang (Li River) and our guide (Zenner, … Read more

In the morning I went to the desk in the hotel lobby which organises tour and booked a trip down the River Li for the 14th. A bus will pick … Read more

After an excellent breakfast we went back to bed because it was raining. When the weather brightened up we went outside for a walk round the Shan Lake which is … Read more

The concierge at the Prince had checked the China Railways website and told us that there were no places on the train to Guilin for two days. We got a … Read more

There were frequent thunder storms and it rained all day. The hotel room had a umbrella which we took although it didn’t stop us getting soaked as we walked to … Read more