For our day of checking out and awaiting the overnight train to Xi'an, we killed some time by visiting the nearby Lama Temple. It had lots of Buddha's inside the numerous buildings, with monks in their robes wandering around and lots of people burning incense and offering it to the Buddha statues. One of the statues of a Buddha was something like 18m high, it was amazing! One was playing a guitar as well, which seemed a little strange! You couldn't take any pictu...

What can you say about the Great Wall? It was amazing! I never thought I would be so excited over a wall but it's something I've always wanted to do and I still can't quite believe I've done it. The pictures say otherwise though and I took plenty! We went to the Mutianyu part of the wall, which is one of the less busy sections and has a lot of watch towers set out regularly compared to some of the other sections. We got a cable car up there which was a bit scary ...

Today we went to the Summer Palace. My legs, especially my calves were aching today from the last few days walking, so I was thrilled to find that the lake was man made and everything dug out of it they'd made into a massive hill!!! It was so steep! We had to stop for a rest halfway through! At the top we had the best strawberry ice lolly ever though. The place was nice & it was really hot. Later on we went to a night market where they had all the scorpions ...

So I haven't blogged for a couple of days. Last night I was too tired and on Wednesday I didn't because 1. We didn't do much and 2. Natwest ruined my day Back to where I left off anyway. We stayed up in the bar til about 1 before we realised we had the same channel in our room so we watched the football there. It was good to watch it, even though I didn't particularly enjoy it, too stressful! But it probably wasn't the best idea as we just seemed to be getting o...

Hello! Today faced the usual sleepiness! Jet lag is a killer. Luckily I'm not as old as Ben who is taking it a lot worse than me! We got up later than planned (again) and went to a bakery on the way to the metro station to go out. Ben tried to play safe with some pancakes and I chose a pastry thing with icing on it that also had either ham or bacon in it with cheese, onion and peppers. It was the most sugary meat I think you could imagine! It was like a sweet piz...