Pearl Tower.... After a morning full of catastropies.. we finally made it to the 3rd tallest tv tower in the world. The Oriental Pearl tower here in shanghai. we went up to the viewing platform at around 260m high. from here we got a great view of the mass of skyscrapers that shanghai is... Not really got anything more planned for today, think we will just take it steady. Have a flight booked to hong kong, and moer importantly have the ticket after the farce wi...

Shanghai..... (Penultimate city...!) So we arrived here in shanghai yesterday morning after getting a private bus from Suzhou, which took around 2 hours. First of all we set out on a walking tour arround the city taking in the architecture, well to the river and along to the Bazzar. Where we spent the afternoon looking around the little shops. On the way back to the hotel (which we decided to walk) it absolutely tipped it down, i swear i was no wetter by the tim...

Suzhou... Arrived here in suzhou this morning and luckly our train wasnt late in fact it was actually 30mins early! Had the optional activities this afternoon, which where a gondola ride round the canals and a trip to the silk factory. we only did the silk factory as there was a downpour mid afternoon. the silk factory was pretty good, its actually a very complicated process making silk! then this evening we went out for a group meal, which i thought was the bes...

Terracota Warriors... Last night we enjoyed an local dumpling buffet and watched a local performance. The dumplings were excellent and we were veru full afterwards. the show was good although the local musical performances were far superior to the same'y dances. nethertheless still the a good night. Today.. well as the blog entry title suggests we went to see the Terricota warriors and i have to say it was very impressive, the sight was way to touristy but the ...

Xi'an.... Arrived here in Xi'an this morning fresh from our train.. this was actaully a little bit more intresting than our last.. not that we got rocked or anything just as the sleepers we got where not the same as the comforatble almost posh 4 a cabin one we got for 2 days up here. these were 3 high open to the carriage hard sleepers which made things slightly busy in our carriage but arguebly more fun! lol So what have we done today.. well we had no planned ...