Day 436 - Goodbye China

Today was our last day in China, after arriving 14 months and one week ago. There was no real celebration / commiseration today, but it was a typical Chinese day! Hanging at the hostel we met a French traveller who joined us for lunch and a wander around town. We also popped into the post office where the recurring theme of the year and the Chinese post office bureaucracy continued - we were trying to send home our work permits which together are about 4mm thick, but because it was not just a letter inside the envelope we had to pay for parcel post! Stuff that, we thought, we'll just send them from Kazakhstan!

After managing somehow to kill time until midnight, we jumped on our last local bus in China and headed to the train station. On the bus we had another typical Chinese experience when the conductor went around the bus picking up all the rubbish an unceremoniously chucked it all out the window for someone else to deal with!

At the station we cleared through security and waited nervously to head to Kazakhstan.

Adlibing it away from China.