Day 7 Wow the humidity in Bangkok is killer! today we took a half day tour to a nearby floating market just outside Bangkok which was great! we all loaded into a little wooden boat which went up and down the canals and we bought all types of exotic fruit off the boat stalls. Today was a festival of light called Loi Krathong so it was a very cool atmosphere with even a band playing on the one boat. we saw our first Asian elephant at the market so cute a small one...

Day 6 - Beijing to Bangkok Man oh man way TOO much flying for my liking in the past few days! We headed off to the airport and boarded out Air China flight to Bangkok! As most of you know I hate hate flying but its gotta be done! we arrived into Bangkok at around 7pm and made our way to Koh San Road the main backpacker hangout in Bangkok Already the humidity level was 95% and 34 deg celcius, quite a difference to Beijing at -2! we are staying at the cutest gues...

Day 4 Great Wall of China! we eventually made it to one of the 8th wonders of the world! Heading off at the crack of dawn and in hair-raising Beijing traffic and an excuse for a minibus that kept on breaking down every 5 minutes its a wonder we made it at all! What a climb, we made it past 2 and a half towers and then just sat on the wall for about an hour taking in the views and the wall for as far as the eye could see!! pretty cool I must say! In the evening ...

Beijing Day 2 Today was a very special day for one particular reason... Sven PROPOSED!!! I still can't stop smiling hee hee. We had started the day off with walking through Tianamen Square and then onto the Forbidden City, then ancient palaces of China's many Emperors. Such a HUGE complex it can take a few days if you want to take in every detail! Very impressive with all the palaces and the old Emperors thrones etc! Anyway after 4 hours walking around in subz...

Beijing Day one! We have arrived in China!! It is now 2am local time and ding ding ding we are wide awake!! SOoo I decided why not write our first blog! After a 9 hour flight from London to Beijing and no sleep for either of us, we landed in Beijing and got a taxi to our hostel in the back alleys of Beijing known as the 'Hutongs' which are the old markets. Rather interesting taxi ride as the taxi navigated up this very small alley and dropped us outside a ra...