Friday morning a group of us decided to go cycling along the city wall - a total of 14km around Xi'an, after checking out. Everyone met up at 12 and Bobo showed us the way on the public bus to get there to pay - with student discount too waeyyyy! We were pretty surprised that there weren't more people up on the wall, but it did mean that we could cycle around like loonies and not knock any unsuspecting chinese tourists off their bikes. The road was pretty bumpy s...

Ok - quick blog entry for the past two days! The 1st (Wednesday) was Claire's 19th Birthday, and the morning of which was spent on the overnight train. Our train was divided into compartments of 6, with bunk beds and barely any room for luggage. On the whole though it was pretty clean (if not a little rickety) and everyone managed to get some sleep - but not to the toilets, which were squats, and DISGUSTING! We arrived in Xi'an in the early morning and were led...