1.5 

Finally, we are out for HK. It took us only 28h to travel from PE to Shenzhen. Apparently the whole of china is traveling now, they have the whole week of due to labor day. We tried to get train tickets, but everything is full today and tomorrow. We decided to see if PRC officials know what standby tickets are, so we took a taxi to the airport. Unfortunately they do not know what standby tickets are. We ended up paying RMB850 for a ticket to Wuhan. As a sidenote it can be mentioned that this price is down from 1050, so apparently you can bargain at the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority. 

We arrived in Wuhan some time after dark, took the bus to the city. Once we got of the bus it was raining like crazy. The map we had in Lonely Planet was of zero help, but nonetheless we tried to find some place to stay. After I've been carrying both mine and Annika's luggage for a while we decided to take a taxi and search for a place to stay, I think it was the 8th place we went to that had room for us.