As I was saying... we arrived in Chongqing quite late at night and we were met by our guide Jesse. She was very patriotic towards Chongqing and on the way to our hotel she gave us a "brief history of the city". Si stared out the window and she turned round in her seat and began... "our city is very famous for...." this became a pattern and every other sentence while she was telling us that Chongqing has 3 names (capital of fog, capital of...

After the worst journey ever, we finally made it our hostel in Guilin. The Backstreet youth hostel was nice and right in the middle of the shopping district near to the river so we were im pressed..until (after having no sleep the night before) we decided to have an afternoon nap and discovered we had the hardest beds in China, and no joke you could knock on the matress and it would sound like a door. Our first day was spent chilling out, but on the night went t...

Hello all, sorry for the delay in updating have been very busy! After our somewhat nightmarish train ride we finally made it to our hostel in Chengu and it was lovely, apart from our room wasn't ready and with the lack of sleep and me not feeling too well we were shattered but we had a mooch around to see what was going on in the area. The hostel was very good had a nice seating area,delicious food and a bar as well as some animals - 2 pigs and a puppy (mu...

Hello! Well we made it on the train ride from hell between Xi'an and Chengdu and are settling quite nicley into our new hostel. Xi'an was had some amazing things to do but kinda glad to be out of there! First day we arrived and it was a relief to be off the train. After we had battled our way through the touts telling us that our hostel was full and we needed to follow them we finally made it to where we thought we could relax. Our room had a lovely view of Xi...

Finished in Beijing! On our last couple of days we did a few things but a much more relaxed pace! The Great wall, what everyone wants to see, and it was worth it! You can see the wall for miles and miles around and its huge, about 5 metres across and really high, unfortunatley as it was the Chinese Golden week, they all had the same idea and it was a push and a shove to see who could get to the top the first. We really wanted to walk it but as it was the busiest ...