Not much to report for today. When we got to the bus station our bus was missing – the only possibility looked like a crummy old sleeper bus. We started questioning ourselves – how long is this trip going to be !? Just before our scheduled departure a more reasonable looking bus pulled in and we climbed aboard holding out noses as we deposited our backpacks in the fishy smelling hold (yuk).

It was a five hour trip on good roads. I spent most of it with my eyes closed listening to ‘The Naked Scientists’ podcast (reminder to self: try mix coke and wallpaper glue someday) and Bill Bryson reading ‘In a Sunburnt Country’. V and I love his stuff. We both nodded off a few times and arrived in Kunming around 14h00 and shortly thereafter spotted our first westener in 4 days ! A misjudgment on my part meant that we ended up slogging the 2+ km to the hostel through the city centre on foot (should know better than to trust my instincts when it comes to directions). We deposited our gear, tried to check email (the Internet connection is painfully slow here) before heading out for western food. Suitably saturated with the Colonel’s masterful bounty we retired to our room with the ambition of doing absolutely nothing but the mosquitoes had other plans for us.

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