hi guys, after leaving jiuzhaigou bright and early itai and me were heading back down south towards songpan just for one night before leaving to take the road north again to langmusi. i was only in songpan for a day but it was really nice. most people come here to do horse treks but it's just a stop off for me. i spent the day walking around the town which is really nice. it has a wall going all around the town and inside the wall the town is full of sh...

Hello again, 11 hours after leaving chengdu i arrived in jiuzhaigou. the bus ride here was stunning. we passed mountains with snow capped peaks and alpine valleys leading into the town of jiuzhaigou. the first night i arrived to late to enter the nature reserve so i stayed in a cheep hotel just outside the park so i could wake up bright and early and enter the park. after a ten minute walk (10 minutes is a long time when you have a huge backpack on...

Hello everyone, the picture on this postcard should be a giant panda but because these parts of china only seem to have windows 98 i'm finding it really hard to upload my photos onto the site, so untill i do just sqint your eyes and believe that's a panda not an orangutan. after leaving macau i got on a 44 hour train to chengdu. on the way here there was some amazing scenery, beautiful mountains, rice paddies and rivers and as you will see when i finaly...

Hey guys, right then, macau island. this was a really nice change to what i've been doing recently, coming from beijing to shanghai to hong kong, even those places were great i was just about ready to get out of the big cities so macau was the obvious choice. you come to macau for one of 2 resons, you either come for the history or you come to gamble which the majority of the visitors to the island taking the later option i decided to take the history route....

Hello again everyone, sorry to say but i'm still miles behind at the moment with the old web page business because of these rubbish computers in china but i'm getting there. hong kong. well what can i say about honk kong other than BLOODY HELL, IT'S GREAT HERE!!! the place is all about money, and if you got it you can sure burn through it fast here for example i bought a pint of guiness here on my first night (my first draght pint of guiness since leavi...