Day for travel and rest today. Left the hotel at 7:30 for our flight to Xi'an. The domestic terminal at Shanghai is the biggest terminal in China, so a bit chaotic! We didn't realise we couldn't take liquids as carry on, so they made Case throw out her perfume - she was pissed! We lucked in to a flight carrying 30 7yr old school kids who all wanted to say hi to the round eyes! After getting swamped by the kids trying to get onto the plane (they push more than the...

Well, we managed to retrace our footsteps and made it to the meeting point for our next tour so we were off to a flyer. Our tour guide for the day was a girl Case's age named Annie. Today's trip took us around 'old Shanghai' (to places we can't remember the names of) to look at things from a famous Chinese writer who was very influential during the Chinese revolution (who we cant remember the name of either!). Highlights for the day - watching a group of Chinese ...

Well, our trip really started in earnest yesterday. Up at 0445 for a domestic flight from Brisbane to Sydney before getting on an A330 from Sydney to Shanghai. We were very lucky to receive our upgrade request to Business Class (thank you frequent flyers!), so we felt like royalty and the 10 hour flight actually went fairly fast. On arrival we were successfully met by 'Gong' (English speaking guide!) who transferred us to our hotel. Long day, but everything went ...