After a great nights sleep we get ready to visit the Great wall at Mutianyu. Its about a 2 hour drive form the city. We have booked a local guide by the name of Kevin to take us to see the wall. He is charging me $90 for the transport in a mini bus, a driver and Kevin the tour guide. The weather is not kind to us, as it is raining with thick fog. We leave the city and after an hour or so we actually start to see clouds as we leave the pollution behind. It rains...

Departing from Shanghai we gave ourselves 2 hours before departure to check in and proceed to the boarding gate. Well check in was pretty smooth only taking 5 minutes. The next step was security. This took 20 minutes and was done with any problems. After leaving security we headed to gate number 91 of 200 gates. It was a long walk, 750 metres. This airport is huge to say the least. the terminal would have to be around 1.5 ks long. As we arrive at the gate they ...

Having to drag myself out of bed at 4.15am wasnt the easiest thing to do. The joy of a 6am flight. We left Adelaide an time and arrived at Sydney on time. Qantas gave us 1 hour to get from the Domestic to the international terminal. We made it with minutes to spare. As we arrived at the gate Final Boarding was being called. The flight to Shanghai was very smooth and quiet. Most of the people on board were Chinese. The plane was only half full, so we could spread...

Arrived in Macau after a 2.5 hour flight. The flight was very smooth for a change. Only about half a million people live here, in fairly high density buildings. The city is very clean with lots of small lane-ways and a lot of pedestrian only paths. There are a lot of casinos here including the American Casinos like the Venetian. Had a great feed at a little Chinese cafe for about $12AU for 2. Really enjoyed just wandering around exploring all the little lane way...