ching chong china

HAHAHAHA just read the end of my last post.. new group haha. my new group is me, hayley & conor from last group, and new group leader. only 4 of us haha. its good but :)

not getting a sim in china/hongkong to expensive so stop freaking mum i haven't died.
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in Liuzhou right now, we are the only westerners here im sure. yesterday we were walking back from dinner and this old chinese man saw us, stopped and stared at conor and shook his head like he didnt believe what he was seeing. crazy. ate so much food for dinner, we got a hot pot which is a pot that is hot in the middle of your table (no shit ha) then they bring you about 50 plates of different meat seafood and vegies and sauces, so much food, one of the sauces was oil so needless to say, all my clothes now have oil stains. good one mia.
hanoi was hectic, only started getting used to it on the last day or so. after we left there we went to halong bay, had one night on a boat then one on cat ba island. island not so good, typhoon warnings so we werent allowed to do anythign. but the boat was so good, heaps of fun and it was only us on the whole boat. after halong we went to lang son, border town. in lonely planet it says 'not a place you would want to linger in'... its right. wouldnt go back no one spoke english it was wierd. got lost walking home from dinner we couldnt find the hotel ha. i think we would have walked past it about 3 times :) then into china, not sure if you have been seeing on the news but there has been massive floods in the guangxi provence, right where we crossed the border into. trying to upload pics to facebook of the floods. in the pics you can see on the trees they are covered in mud up to about 3m, thats the level the water got too, 2 days before we were there. the car couldnt get any furhter along the track to where we were staying (which was really remote) so we had to walk with packs. so muddy. stayed in these really cute rooms, they were like cubby houses up on stilts. whole day of travel yesterday to Liuzhou, leaving 2day to i dont know where haha. should be good :)