It's been nearly a week of night trains and a couple of quick stop offs to take us over 1,130 miles further south to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. On our journey, we've taken on 3 night trains of varying comfort and we've stopped over at the little city of Pingyao and the much larger city of Xi'an, both located in the Shaanxi Province. We last left you at the start of our pretty horrendous journey from Beijing to Pingyao. The train journey was long,...

Beijing draftI [heart] BJ!!That's what the T-shirts say at the souvineer shops that flank many of the streets in this huge fascinating city! And we'd be inclined to agree, who wouldn't love BJ!Happy to be leaving UB, we crossed the Chinese border following the tail end of our Trans-Mongolian train journey and as we passed in between the limestone mountains, trying to get our first glimpse of the Great Wall, we were really excited about setting foot in Beijing. Ch...