From Kunming to Guilin

Another sleeper train…this time a 30-hour trip from Kunming to Guilin. The car was filled with children running up and down the halls while their parents passed out in their compartments. The train experience is truly strange. The toilets are filthy. This train had a western style toilet that was already clogged with shit by the time we got on and an Asian style toilet that fed onto the tracks. Within an hour, all the men were in their PJ’s walking around the hall and trying to stare into our compartment.
We had a full stock of food and some wine to make it through the trip. So it was time to kick back, relax and watch the scenery. Dinner was Gouda cheese from the Holiday Inn, crackers and wine. John did have to do some major surgery to replace the bulb in his reading lamp, using less than adequate tools.