We packed all the stuff took a bus back to Zhangjiajie, bought train tickets from Zhangjiajie to Beijing and some stuff to eat. 24 hours in train ahead of us!

It’s almost 10 hour behind us. We got some beers, talked about our trip, what we should do differently next time and just had fun. Time runs fast and the way is not boring after all.

Now it’s time to fall a sleep and see what tomorrow brings us. It’s a real pity we couldn’t go to Avatar mountains but we definitely do our best to go there again to make it happen!

We arrived to Beijing guys! Our trip has finished… Now it’s time to take a rest and summarize all the things which happened on our way, go through and learn for a next trip! I’m happy we are alive, we really enjoyed it even if we had some hard times.

Can’t wait for another trip!

We went to a cable car in city centre to buy tickets to Tianmen mountain. We were trying really hard to get student discount but without any chance. So we had to pay full price :-/

Weather seemed to be pretty OK, but while we were going up by bus somewhere to the middle of mountain, the weather started changing a lot. First, it started raining. So we thought, with rain we can make it anyway. By the way, that road is really amazing, full of crazy feelings and nice views.

We came almost to the top and it was rainy and too foggy. And every moment it was worse and worse.

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

― Vivian Greene

We walked on the top on mountain on the cliffs, but mostly we couldn’t see that much. It’s a pity but that’s life. On this mountain you can also walk on glass cliff path. Even if the weather wasn’t good, this was really amazing experience anyway!

Walking on the glass and see below that “nothing”, really amazing!

After few hours of walking we took the cable car and went back to the city centre. We were really cold, but we decided to take a bus and go directly go to Wulingyuan, small village nearby where are Avatar mountains. After some troubles like looking for bus and hostel, we arrived, took a hot shower and unpacked our bags to get our stuff dry.

Now we are eating curry chicken, drinking beers, playing billiard and waiting for tomorrow if the weather here is going to be good otherwise we’re gonna go back to Beijing tomorrow.

Ok, the plane was the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I was so fucking afraid all the time we fall down! But we made it, no idea how, but we landed.

We came quite late and were looking for a public bus. We were lucky, we found probably the last one which was going to garage and took us for free to a city centre. Then we found our hostel, which wasn’t not so good as previous ones… Then we ordered our dinner completely in Chinese :-D After dinner we talked to a really polite girl at reception who recommended us some thing for the next day for Tianmen Mountain and then we went sleep because of long day ahead of us.

When we arrived, we were complaining about entrance tickets, then we had to change bus. We just got in, it was really dangerous way in hills, the driver drove that car like he stole it. In that bus we started shouting at each other and people in the bus were just peering at us. We were really angry and nervous because we weren’t sure what the fuck is going on. We got off the bus and after a short discussion we decided we’re not gonna give up so we entered and tried to enjoy the terrace together. It was really unbelievable. It’s masterpiece. Big terraces and pretty amazing view!

Unfortunately, we were able to see only one out of three terraces due to lack of time. But it was definitely worthy. Not only because of sightseeing but it was the most difficult time so far.

For the way back we took a crazy bus one more time, than we got off in the middle of nowhere, we somehow got into another bus, came to Guilin and then we took another crazy bus to Yangshuo. It was kind of sleeping bus :-D I have never seen this before…that bus was picking up people on highway so we were afraid we have to get off on highway too but everything was quite ok and we arrived without problems.

We just had to walk a bit to find out bikes. After all day we were happy nobody stole them. We came to our hostel, took our favourite curry, grabbed beers and laughed at our difficulties in the morning, talked to hostel staff and then we went to sleep. Next day, we are going to Zhangjiajie to see Avatar Mountains!

Then, we took bikes and went to see places like The Moon Hill, Spring Butterfly or Banayan tree.

Was pretty sunny day so we had a lot of fun riding bikes. Later afternoon we came to another hostel we booked. This time in county side, in the middle of nowhere with nice mountain view.

We did check in, took perfect Thai curry chicken and went back to the city centre to find out how are buses going to Guilin, airport and other destinations. Then we took our bags and went back to the hostel. We grabbed some beers as usual, made plans for next day and went to enjoy our awesome room.

Our plan was go to Guilin but before we fell asleep, we changed our plan to rice terraces.

In the evening we just went to the West street to grab a beer and enjoy a bit more the night life there.

Afterwards, we got really good breakfast, bought some stuff like new shoes because humidity is around 70–90% here and we needed some waterproof stuff or stuff we don’t care if gets wet.

Then we rented bikes and were riding around the city and enjoying beautiful nature. It’s really amazing here. We spend whole afternoon riding bikes along a river, drinking beers on a bamboo rafts.

We didn’t mind about time or where we are. Then we came back to city and had dinner in one of the restaurants here, then took a shower and went to the West Street street to enjoy nightlife here! We were looking for a bar one Canadian guy, we met in Xi’an, proposed us. We wanted to talk to local expats about good places to go. Unfortunately, it was closed due to a recent flood so we just found another bar and were hanging out with some Chinese girls who study English here.

Really good and relaxing day! We decided to stay a bit longer here and really enjoy beautiful nature!

We arrived around 1pm and it started raining so we grabbed a beer in a restaurant and something to eat.

Meanwhile, we were looking for a hostel we have booked. On three different maps we got three different places for the address of the hostel we’d booked before (a hostel with nice mountain view). After a while, we found, on booking.com there is one more hostel with the same name but closer to the city. So we got nervous a bit because of the weather and changed our reservation to this hostel. Unfortunately, we got a room without any view (there is just another wall) :-/ My friend got really upset and it was like that all day. I was all day too tired because I slept maybe 12hours in last three days. So I just slept today and we did laundry and had dinner.

Now I’m just gonna sleep more and enjoy it here tomorrow. Hopefully our mood will be better tomorrow morning.

We ‘woke up’ before 7am again to catch our train from Chengdu to Leshan. Everything is fuckin’ far away here, which already annoys me. This morning, we were in hurry but we are traveling with a cool guy from Argentina who we met in our hostel.

After arrival we took a public bus to get there. It took another hour and it was really full of people.

Giant Budha is pretty amazing place. Climbing down to the Budha took us almost one and half hour due to unbelievably long queue of people. I was really pissed off because it’s full of people and Chinese people are not willing to wait. They have to be everywhere as the first ones. This is annoying, but we made it.

To be honest, that Budha is not the most worthy place to see there. We went to a cave where we found many other big Budha statues. It was really unbelievable! I was soooo amazed by this place. This day I took tens of pictures because I was really amazed all the time!

After coming back to Chengdu, we walked a bit around the city. We went to Chunxi Road, the main square, People’s park and Jinli street which was really amazing place during night. I tasted some street food like fried potatoes, lamb meat and some unspecified stuff… It’s really city I like. Quite modern and clean.

When we came to hostel, we just packed all our stuff and got ready for the next day. We have to wake up before 5am and catch our plane to Guilin/Yangshuo!

We arrived back to hostel around 4pm, we played billiard and taking a rest for a while. Then we just went bought tickets for our next trip for tomorrow — Leshan, Giant Budha. In the evening we were hanging out with guys from our hostel and around midnight time to go to bed because we’re gonna wake up early morning again.

This time we sleep with room with Chinese people and to be honest, it’s not my cup of tea. We don’t sleep well here because they always wake up by doing something and so on. But we have to deal with it somehow… So good night!