Our train wasn't until later in the evening, so we decided to go back to the Muslim quarter. I needed to get my dad a gift and chose a terracotta warrior. We stopped at a local cafe for dinner, the food was, as always, really nice although the bowls were filthy but hey, that's half the fun. Steve decided to treat himself and purchased a warrior and I was still longing for a chess set but the cheapest I'd been offered was 120yuan. I wanted to give it one more go...

Woke up to find out that Brit and Luke had already left without saying goodbye (So much for being friends lol). They later told us they were sorry but nearly missed their train because they had over slept. The rest of the day was pretty much a lazy day. We went back to the Muslim Quarter for dinner, where I ordered one of the local dishes, Beef Hot. The food came and I gladly tucked in, only to be presented with another dish 5mins later, turned out that they had ...

I woke up surprisingly fresh and waited for everyone else before having breakfast. Steve and I booked train tickets to Beijing, unfortunately, all the sleeper tickets were sold out (Surprise Surprise) so we had to settle for hard seats on the 13 hours journey (Oh Joy). With everyone chilling at the hostel after feeling a little delicate from the night before, I went on my todd for a stroll around the local market. I tried a few of the local dishes (Rice with Frui...

08:00am start today as we were off to see the Terracotta warriors! Luke ordered 2 eggs and a bit of toast but the hour the chef had to cook before the coach left wasn't long enough, although 3 other people had full English breakfast's even though they'd ordered sometime after Luke (Much to the amusement of everyone bar Luke). The tour started with 12 of us taking a mini bus to one of the factories to see the replica warriors being made along with some background ...

Just before we headed out, we met Luke and Brittany, two Uni students from Melbourne, who were teaching English for a semester in Guangzhou. They are both really nice and had just traveled from Beijing, so gave me a map and told me what to see. Steve and I had planned on visiting the temple of eight immortals, so we said goodbye and arranged to meet up for a few drinks that evening. The rest of the day was spent walking around the city, in the hope of finding t...