Today was a day of waiting. We were meeting in the foyer to leave for the train station in Guilin at 4 p.m. It was a long and boring day. There were no more places we wanted to see, no more shopping we wanted to do (no money no room). On my first day in China I changed all I had of cash, which was about 230 USD. This morning I had 40 Yuan left, and I didn’t want to change in a 100 USD traveller cheque on my last day using Yuan.

Alison and I woke up around 8, got dressed and found a cafe to have breakfast. Again I ate a pancake with banana and chocolate, since this might be my last chance to taste it. After that we were just walking around and waiting for the hours to go by, partly just us and partly with John and Donna. We walked around, bought some food for the train ride, the others bought some CD’s. Our room were one of those that we had kept until departure, so the others had put their luggage in our room. And for a couple of hours before departure several of us from the group were just hanging out in the room, talking and relaxing. Finally it was time to leave for Guilin. The trainride this time wasn’t so long, only about 14-15 hours I think, in hard sleeper. I actually prefer hard sleeper to soft sleeper because it has air-con. We all hate instant noodles by now, but some of the others ate it one last time. I had chosen to stick to bakery goods.