Konichiwa!! Ok, we have done some of Tokyo today and fly out to San Francisco tomorrow. So, today we tried to pack it all it-temples, the worlds largest self supporting steel tower, high rises and neon lights. It has been totally different to what i expected. It is quite a spread out city so we had to metro it around. It is also not as high tec as i thought it would be and our hostel room, thought cute, is like stepping back into the 80's! However, it is...

Ok, so i have found it a bit tricky to write to this blog while in China so I will sum it all up in a nutshell as I am now at Hong Kong airport waiting to fly to Tokyo. Here goes... Beijing was cool and the temples were interesting. We met our intrepid group there who we travelled with for the 21 day trip. Xian was our next stop. We saw the terracotta warriors and had hot pot in the muslim quarter. I think i have already mentioned that! From Xian we go...

Ni Hao! Or, Hello! We are now in China. We arrived 2 days ago and i have to say i wasn't too sad to say bye to Thailand. I was happy to leave the hassly people, the very many stray dogs at every turn(not good for someone like me who tends to panic at the first sight of a dog) and the slightly disapointing beaches (heck, when you have been to Hawaii every beach is slightly disapointing!) but will miss to great banana milkshakes and the gorgeous railay scenery...

Ok, so it is our last day in Thailand before flying off to China tomorrow. We got here this morning on the sleeper train from Surat Thani after getting a cramped mini van and a longtail boat. It was a long day. We left Railay in the morning and got the longtail boat across the water. The journey was great and i find longtail boats a brilliant way to travel except for the fact that they drop you about a mile (ok, 50 metres!) from the dry beach. This means yo...

Just a quick entry from me as the guesthouse we are staying in (dead lovely, apart from the slight smell of wee in the room but hey at only 2 pounds a night im not complaining!) has cheap internet. We got to Krabi (yes we are here this time, i havn'e just fluffed the journal title again) yesterday night after a day of travelling on boats and buses. It is lovely here and today we went to the tiger cave temple. It is a buddhist temple built into the rocks of t...