We managed to make our train to Pingyao this time, so we arrived yesterday morning at about 7:30am. When we arrived at the hostel we were told that our rooms were not ready yet!!! in fact there was still people sleeping in our beds!!! so we managed to get one room between four. We ended up sleeping four in a bed for about 4 hours until we were giving our own room. Pingyao is a very nice village which is pretty much unchanged for many years. Very nice!!!, but...

Bueno por fin llegamos a Pingyao despues de 12 horas en tren, con banos que apestaban si se les puede llamar banos a un agujero en el suelo! Llegamos sanos y a salvo a la parada donde habia tres taxis de esos que son como bicis esperandonos para llevarnos al hostal. Este es el mejos hostal en el que hemos estado, el mas limpio. Llegamos muy cansados asi que nos pegamos un siestorro y luego salimos a dar una vuelta. Este pueblo esta genial, parece que el tiempo no...

Hey, just thought i had better write something since Belen has been doing all the writing. We are still in Beijing as we missed our train by 5 mins yesterday!!!! Its not like Britian tho we just had to go to the ticket desk and change our tickets for tonight. So we will be in pingyang 2moro morning at about 7am (its a 12 hour train journey!!!) so not looking forward to that!!!. We are travelling with an english couple and a couple of swedis...

Hola de nuevo, bueno ayer fuimos al Templo del Cielo, que pedazo de templo y jardines. Estuvo genial, estaba a unos 40 minutos andando desde el hostal, nos metimos por callejuelas etc y vimos varias partes de la ciudad. Segun me han contado, Beijing no tiene centro si no que esta dividido en cuartro secciones las cuales cada una tiene su centro. Ahora ya no hay tanto chino en la calle ya que las fiestas nacionales acabaron antes de ayer. Luego por la tarde compra...

Hi guys, how are you? Having a fabolous time, we left dubai which it was ok, sunny and pampering! Now in beijing which is a different story but is just great. Yesterday we went to the forbidden city which was the size of San Antonio, oh my god. Today we went up the great wall, it took us 3 hours to get there, we were about twenty and it was just amazing, no words to describe the view, we are quite tired, it took us 3 hours to climb and walk around (we went to the...