The hectic travelling starts again. First a train out of Hong Kong back into mainland China and back to the hell hole of Guanzhou. It was so humid there and we had to spend most of it on the dirty streets before heading to the train station once again. We had spoiled ourselves in Hong Kong so we had to start pinching pennies again to make sure we would survive the rest of the trip.
So in an effort to save a few bob we got a third class ticket bound for Nanning. These tickets are not given to "westerners" so we had to get a Chinese man to buy them for us. It was an overnight train and all we had were seat tickets. Not too bad you might think...but there is a reason why the tickets are not sold to westerners. These carriages are packed to the gills with people, smelly, dark, damp and pretty dangerous. There were standing tickets too for the people who couldn't afford to sit for 12 hours. The conditions were appauling. We had to tie our bags around ourselves and we had to take turns to sleep as even if we looked away there were hands pulling at our gear.
People got drunk as the night went on and thats when the fights started. There were people shouting and pointing at us. We stayed together. We tried to ignore them. I couldn't. I just wanted to scream...FxxK OFF!!!!!!. But I knew that it would make no difference. The pointing and shouting turned to poking and shouting. I lost it. I will not repeat what I shouted and probably would be locked up if i did. But after my rant things seemed to quieten up. I had beaten China.....for now!
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