We're in Hong Kong!! The train journey was about 20 hours & we are starting to get a bit bored of them now but should be the last one for a while as we are getting a flight to Vietnam & I think it is mainly coaches down there. We arrived at about 1.15pm & found our hostel in a taxi - the taxi driver spoke english & drove on the lefthand side of the road! Unfortunately the luck of nice accommodation didn't follow us down here! The hostel is ok but ...

We arrived in Shanghai early on 5th November with nowhere to stay. We found an internet cafe & found a really cheap place just off of The Bund (big sightseeing place) it was on the 19th floor of a really posh hotel & they had converted the whole of that floor into apartments & it looked out over The Pudong where the Oriental Pearl TV Tower is. The comments sounded really good but after the boat cruise we didn't really trust it. However when we got the...

In the morning we went to a temple which was really pretty & then watched a short show with a really wicked singer, it was a girl who must hve been about 14ish. After that we had go on the dragon boats, I think me & Charlie were the only ones paddling! Then we went to see the world largest construction project which is the damn being built on the Yangtze, it was more wide than than tall, still humongous tho & the surrounding area was really nice. ...

2nd Nov 07 - We missed out the early morning Emporer City Tour & had a lie in until 10am. It was a sunny day so we went to sit on the deck in the sunshine. We weren't out there very long tho as the worlds biggest bee landed on me. I looked down & thought it was a teddy bear! When I realised what it was I stood up & was screaming at Charlie & some chinese guys to get it off of me, Charlie tried blowing on it but that didn't work so he ran away &...

We had an early start today, we went to see The Ghost City in Fengdu. It was wet & so early & the tour was all in chinese so not the best day ever! Then we went back to the boat for a nap. From 8.30-10pm we went to the Zhangfei Temple at Yunyang, this was another chinese tour so we went off on our own. Afterwards we chilled out on deck with a guy from Manchester. Us three, a dutch guy & one other guy were the only westerners on board the ship!