I will not bore you with part three of the Dong road....suffice to say that the next day was much of the same, a supposed three hour journey that took six due to continual roadworks.
We had undertaken this part of the journey to see a number of ethnic villages...we had managed one after three days! However, regardless of the rather hairy travel, the country we went through was beautiful and still quite remote and it was worth it all.
We met two guys from Beijing, who had hired a driver and a guide to drive through the region and (depending on the cost) this would be the way to go in this area...it would be fascinating to stop in the smaller villages and find out about life in them.
Enough philosophising!
We did get to Kaili, our end point in the Dong country, and got back on a train (thank God for trains) and had an uneventful trip to Guiyang where we nearly got on an overnight train to Kunming (where we were really heading). The ticket lady sold me a ticket and I was about to tell Mandy our good luck when she snatched it back realising she had got the dates wrong...no train tonight...stuck in Guiyang for the night and the next day, much to our disappointment.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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