Hello, its been a while since we have been able to update our blog, since arriving in Beijing on the 8th october its been non stop. First night in Beijing we met our group of 16 including me n ali. All British and all quite quirky in their own way. first full day in Beijing we went to the forbidden city (called this because it was off limits to commoners for 500 years) which has some of Chinas oldest buildings. Second day we went to see the Olympic stadium, b...

Hellooo We've left Kolkata and are now in Chennai. This is our last stop before we go to China. We flew here on Wednesday morning and were really excited about our hotel, we were told it had a kitchen and living area and when we looked at the website it looked really nice. But when we arrived it turned out we didn't get a kitchen and living area!! We we're pretty annoyed so kicked up a fuss. We got the chance to move to a residential appartment but we wouldn't h...

Hello!! Were in Kalkutta at the moment, we finished our tour on sunday, its much more of a built up area than anywhere else we have visited with shopping malls but thts all thts keeping us entertained, theres still masses of cars beeping at everyone and everything, still millions of dogs roaming the streets, and this afternoon i saw one chewing on another dogs bone, or i hope thts what it was and not a human bone!!!! before we arrived here we took 2 overnight ...

Hello! Been a while since we last wrote! In Agra at the moment, just been to the Taj Mahal....very beautiful. Expensive to get into though and they made us wear bags on our feet to cover our shoes! Well worth it though. Got some great pictures. But it takes so long to download them on slow Indian computers! Before Agra we were in Jaipur, went to see a Bollywood film called Singh is King, pretty funny, but no subtitles so didn't really know what was going on! We...

Whooop the camel safari finally came!!! was so funny trying to get on the camels, we had to be walked by a guide as our camels had tendancies to run off into the desert!!! it was a bumpy ride , ali had a sore bum afterwards! we camped out under the stars, was amazing, we saw loads of shooting stars, ate traditional indian foods, bit too spicy tho. didnt eat much but most of our group got ill from the food, everywheres so frickin dirty!!! rode back to jaiselmer on...