We started our day early with breakfast in the hotel. Our guide for the day walked into the hotel and joined us at our table. His name was Brian and spoke very good English which he had leant at school. Meeting our driver for the day the three of us jumped in the car and headed out to see the Great Wall of China. The Beijing traffic flew pass as we weaved our way through. Brain told us some information regarding the city. For example that the ancient city ...

The day started slowly with the Beijing traffic outside our hotel window testing their horns. Up a dressed we headed to the subway. My bag went through the x-ray machine for safety in the subway (the sign says). Arriving at Beijing Zoo we brought our tickets, including passes to see the Pandas (which Beverley really wanted to see). Walking around the zoo we saw a range of animals. We found the monkeys swinging from branches and eating what they could find. We ...

Our day started before the sun had started to rise. Dressed and packed we headed out to catch our train to the Airport. Neither of us managed to sleep very well during the night. We got on the airport express in good time. Lucky we checked which out of the 2 airports we where leaving from. The train still went to both so we arrived at the airport 1 hour before check in. At check in we found we needed a print out of our ticket out of the next country to qualify ...