Fri 8/6 Last day in Beijing, our train wasn't until 7:30pm so once we checked out we headed out to find the Hard Rock Cafe, google maps said it was right next to the tube station so thought it cant be too hard to find! Google maps was wrong! After wandering about for a bit we did a bit more research, we were a whole two tube stations away from it! By the time we got there we were terribly hungry as we had no breakfast and it was now 2pm! We ordered nachos to sha...

Tue 5/6 Started our sightseeing today! Planned to go to the summer palace and the lama temple was on the way so stopped off at it first. It was a lovely tibetan buddhist temple with lots of lovely architecture and a nice smell of incense all around. Cam broke his sun glasses before we left India so we also stopped off at a shopping area on our way to the summer palace, very expensive area and couldn't find any apart from ones in an opticians which were designer ...

Sun 3/6 Arrived in Beijing around 1pm and got our transfer to our hostel. We got a nice first impression of China, clean no tooting horns and nice buildings. Our hostel is situated in a nice quiet hútòng. It has a restaurant, bar and rooftop area. Booked a dorm for a change and met a nice group of south americans (all from different countries) who invited us out for dinner. We headed to the market where there was all sorts of weird and wonderful things on offe...