The start however was a bit confusing - complicated - whatever. I was supposed to meet up with David and Markus at the Kowloon Tong KCR Station Platform. That already turned out a little hard... as there were few more people willing to take just this exact train... anyways... we didnt find each other and decided over the phone to take the approaching train and meet up at the border station of LoWu. That all working out fine, we crossed the border without further complications and at 6PM we hit the Airport bus, which supposedly would take around 40 minutes, giving us another hour or so to catch the plane... no prob. - wasn't it for the *SLIGHT* traffic congestion of Shenzhen. argghhh... at 7 we start wondering and getting slightly nervous... at 7:10, we can still not see the glimpse of an airport, nor a plane landing or taking of anywhere skywide... hmm... 7:20, arrival at the airport - 30 min. til takeoff.. so yeah I guess we did well running from Terminal A (where the bus stopped) through all the way to terminal B (where we had to pick up our E-tickets (which were printed on paper- thats why they call'em E-tickets- and then back to terminal A where the check in gate was.... to find it already closed. so we jumped the queue of the next door check in counter... showing the lady the tickets and when she saw them she hurried to accelerate the proceedings...no questions of any kind... and within a minute we had our boarding passes, turned around and ran to security... standing in lind seemed endless (3 minutes or so) and already we could run on to Gate 14..... which we reached at 7:40PM - still 10 minutes before take off.... puhhh... ...but why is our flight not displayed on the screen or over the gate? *worry* *ask* *relieve* ahh.... its delayed by a half an hour and moved to Gate 15... puhhhhh....
other than that, the flight was quite normal and we landed in Guilin (Guanxi province - Southwest China) around 10 pm... took a bus to the city centre and found the hostel, a really cute place.
but besides actually making the flight and staying in this nice hostel, one of the great features of the day was: the air. You would not believe our pleasure when we stepped out of the plane (an Airbus A320 by the way *G*) down the stairs of the gangway and actually breathed in fresh and cool air... as if it was a limited good catching a deeeeeep breath after another. It is unbelievable how much you can appreciate cool air, which does not actually come out of the aircon!!
at the hostel, we throw our stuff into our room and go back downstairs to the cozy bar/lounge area to enjoy a cool beer for a mere 
0,80 € / 600ml! :) ... then we meet... surprise surprise.... small world, another germyn guy *forgot-tha-name* who studies at Baptist University of HongKong together with Verenas Ex. After chatting for a while Markus David and I challenged us for some billiards... and had... together with some furhter beers... quite some fun. heel gezellig!!
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