30 sept Crazy bus journey, dam, rain, train, trench toilets Babies -nappies, holding, breast feeding Staring, photos etc 1 October Frieda bday, Yangzhou, pizza, shopping, donuts, what else? Drinks, karaoke, cake 2oct Bike ride, no dragon temple, lunch in farmers, crazy old guy, laundry, crazy traffic 3rd OCR Cooking classes, Market, tip, foot massage, crazy seats on bus, train, tip for Jenny, presents 4th hong long Bye to Jenny, Charles, orientation,...

Major neglect going on here, it's been so busy!! I think I stopped at the Yangtze river so I'll continue from there! (29 September) We got up earlyish to see the first gorge as we passed it! I didn't actually know what a gorge was haha-apparently it's what the call the most beautiful parts of the river! It was pretty awesome, but it's a pity we had rain! So the view wasn't as good. The rest of that day we kind of just sat and read and chatted, going out to lo...

The boat set off early this morning. We got up around 9 to go on deck and have a look at the scenery and the first gorge. It wad nice but still a bit misty and rainy which is a pity! Then we played cards for a bit in the common room place while looking outside. We boarded at a town around 12 and went and had a big (really yummy!) lunch, then kimberly and I went to an Internet cafe and booked our hostel for Hong kong, which will hopefully be nice! fairly cheap but...

(28 September) If I had thought Xi'an was different, it was absolutely NOTHING on what was to come. It was like we had entered a completely different world. We thought people stared before...here, everyone stared/followed/shouted hello. The bus station wasn't too bad, clean, and the bus was ok, except for the girl munching chicken feet across the aisle from me, the weird kung Fu movies playing for the five hours, and the incessant horn beeping! Like even when yo...

(27 September) Ok so the next morning we had nearly the full day to ourselves before the night train! So I had a lie in till around half 10, chilled out and packed etc until checkout at 12. Then went with the other 4 girls to the Muslim Market. Unfortunately it was raining which was a bit miserable! We stopped at Starbucks again for breakfast (best blueberry muffin ever!)...think we had all just about reached our limit for Chinese food! The market was really fun...