Started the day early as...05:30 pick up to set out for the Great Wall of china. We decided to book our transportation through the hotel..it probably cost us more but we we're that sick of being lost and not understanding it seemed worth it! Headed 3 hours outside of Beijing to the janshanling area of the wall. When we arrived 2 Mongolian farmer women latched onto us. Most people caught the cable car up the side of the mountain but 5 of us decided to walk up. I...

Was an early start to the day..walk to the train station seems a little longer with a 20kg backpack on. FINAL OVERNIGHT MODE OF TRANSPORT!!!! can't tell you how exciting that is. However it was a day time sleeper train- nothing worse than that to mess the old body clock up! Arrived in Beijing (yet another destination I've spent years talking about) at 23:00 bit of a rubbish time to arrive. Hostel is huge! Our room has a window yay- as a result it's much easier...