Wednesday 23rd May Today we went to Beijing Zoo and Aquarium. The books said it wasn't very good but we enjoyed it! We paid about 7quid eachfor both attractions but then they charge extra for the pandas and the penguins, anything to squeeze more money out of tourists! he zoo was huge, we were knackered before we had seen everything, the massive aquarium is even within the zoo grounds. We went to Outback for dinner and ate far too much food and had too many cockt...

Early rise for our day of flying! We went from kathmandu to Lhasa to Chengdu to beijing. After check-in at Kathmandu we went through several security checks. If the machine beeps they frisk you, if the machine doesn't beep, they still frisk you! Same with our bags, they searched them a couple of times. When we walked out of the terminal to the plane we were asked to identify our liggage out of hundreds of bags scattered across the tarmac and getthe guy to put...