Hi everyone, It's all go in Xi'an! As you can see my first day in Xi'an was spent in the hospital, after waking up on the train and finding one side of my face and neck swollen up and looking like the elephant man i thought it would be best to visit the hospital! for the first hour or 2 in the hospital it was utter panic on my behalf, i was led from doctor to doctor who couldn't speak english fingering through the phrase book trying to get some id...

Hello everyone, Chongqing is a hole!! don't let anyone else tell you otherwise!! It's our fault that we ended up here in the first place. We came here to see the Three Gorges Dam, China's biggest engineering project since the construction of the Great Wall, only to find out when we arrived here that the dam was 446 k/m downstream, only a days travel in the wrong direction... note to self, must do more research before going somewhere! So we book into a...

Hello everyone, I'm in Yangshuo. I've been here now for 5 days and it's time to move on, i'd love to spend more time here but china is so big and there's so much to see that you can't spend to long in one place. Yangshuo has been great. The town is quite chilled out with good shops and some really good bars (there has been a couple of 5am finishes from the bars, another reason for me having to get out of here!!). The scenery is great aswel...

Hi everyone, I've made it to China!! I left Sapa, Vietnam the other day and came to China with Tony and Angus. I was hopeing for a little trip across the boarder and into the first stop in China which is Kunming, the capital of the Yunann provence, which on the map doesn't look like a long way.. how wrong was i!! We arrived in hekou the boarder town only to find out that Kunming was a 12 hour over night bus trip away! That 12 hours were some of the most f...