Sleeper trains

We (me and two fellow teachers) started out our trip on a 24 hr hard sleeper train to Guilin. The bunks were much more spacious and comfortable than I had imagined, there was plenty of room to sit up in the bottom bunk and read or whatever. In each cabin area there are three bunks on each side, I had the bottom bunk and my friends had the top two. In the three bunks across from us there was a family of five, a grandmother, husband and wife, and two young children. This turned out to be a blessing and a curse. The kids were really cute and entertaining at first, but of course that was bound to change. Aside from sporadic crying and fighting, the little girl was wearing split pants and twice during the trip decided that the main aisle of the train would make a nice toilet. Though the parents attempted to quickly clean it up, several passengers trekked through the puddle on the way to there seats. Thankfully once the kids fell asleep, they pretty much slept until we arrived in Guilin. On the ride there was little to see out the windows, just hours and hours of dead rice paddies and fields. Occasionally there would be a groups of about a half dozen massive apartment buildings under construction with nothing around them.