Today we are leaving Yangshuo and heading to Guangzhou on the high speed train and it will take us around two hours or so. It’s a distance of about 430kms, the taxi from the hotel was about 30kms and took nearly an hour.

The train station is set into the mountains and you no sooner get underway and we enter a tunnel which felt like an eternity. I timed another tunnel that we went through and it took nearly a minute and a half at a speed of 250kph so you work the length of the tunnel if you can and I’ll tell you if you got it correct.

As we moved south the landscape also changes and becomes more flat and arable and you can see the many rice farms along the way.

Guangzhou is a very big city and it’s very busy. We had to stand for an hour or more as we made our way to the airport to get to our hotel.

At the airport we got picked up after a phone call using my broken Chinese. The room was ok but right under the flight path, mind you after I took a cold and flu tablet I think I drifted off to the land of nod.