We got picked up for our hotel at 8:10 by the mini bus to head to Ha long bay, our guide Lily was very friendly and gave us a long speech about Vietnam! The journey took us 4hours to arrive but we had a break at this random factory full of china on the way! On arrival we had to get on a small boat to take us out in to the bay so we could get on the luxury cruise! We then had more people join us so in totally there was 20 people on our tour. As you arrive on the ...

We were picked up from the airport by our driver from the hotel, as we left the airport we noticed the craziness of the motorbike drivers. There were hundreds of them and everywhere, beeping and driving very close to each other! I think we spent most the journey with our eyes closed! On arrival to our hotel the busboy came running out to greet us and stopped the traffic so we could cross the road! Everyone in our hotel was very helpful and friendly, they gave us ...

We arrived to Hong Kong on the 19th July by plane from Shanghai. We had a slight nightmare at the airport when trying to check into the flight, nothing was in English so we queued up for 30minutes with some very pushy and loud travellers to actually find out we were in the wrong line and was heading to Beijing again! On arriving to Hong Kong we got the train across to Hong Kong island which took about 20minutes. We then flagged down a taxi and got to our hotel '...

We arrived to Shanghai by speed train from Beijing, it took about 4hours. It was quite a pleasant journey, comfortable seats, plenty of leg room and food offered regularly but you could only get this if you spoke Chinese! Once we got to Shanghai we got the very crowded subway, after walking the wrong way with our backpacks we finally found the right hostel and checked in at Mingtown youth hostel. The hostel was good we had our own private room with en-suite, goo...

We arrived in Beijing international airport on the 11/07/14, tired and delirious after being awake for nearly 24hours we made an mistake by paying 350yuan (£35) to get a taxi to our hotel after being harassed by a man who met us at the airport! His driving was insane, in fact everyone's driving was! Sudden changing lanes, very near misses, driving on the hard shoulder and a lot of beeping is one way to describe it! We were dropped off at an alley way and told b...