ello, we just got to Yangshao and celebrated our overly long and tiring week with an english breakfast. Our climb up the mountain was as hard as we thought and we lost half our body weight through sweat, especially on the last 1172 steps where we became delirous and talked s*** to each other the whole way up. We paced ourselves well so arrived to the monestry slightly behind the rest of the group and were planning a celebratory shower. This was optimistic as we f...

ello, we just got to Yangshao and celebrated our overly long and tiring week with an english breakfast. Our climb up the mountain was as hard as we thought and we lost half our body weight through sweat, especially on the last 1172 steps where we became delirous and talked s*** to each other the whole way up. We paced ourselves well so arrived to the monestry slightly behind the rest of the group and were planning a celebratory shower. This was optimistic as we f...

It appears as if we are not true backpackers because we have been moving around almost every day and WE CAN'T HANDLE IT!! From being what we thought of as quite successful tourists we have turned into the worst; every tourists site we've been to we've HATED!! But since the tourist industry is being shoved down our throats at an impressive pace since the joining of this tour Rebes isn't impressed. Espeicially the early mornings. We're going for a 4 hour trek tomor...