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!

Happy Halloween! The bus came to pick us up from the Mix Hostel at 6.30am to take us to Chongqing to get on the boat for the Yangtze Cruise. When we got on the small bus everyone else was chinese. We were driven somewhere to get on a larger coach & everyone there was chinese apart from one other western couple. After a very long coach journey we arrived at Chongqing, which seemed to be a high rise shanty town witrh rusting buildings & bars round the wi...

Hello! Just to let you know that we have arrived saftly in Chengdu after an 18 hour train journey. Going to see the Pandas tomorrow, yeyy!! Will update you soon but are going to bed know as we've just been lost for 4 hours & our feet hurt! We were supposed to meet up with an Isrealy couple to get the bus to see the Pandas today however, we were a couple of minutes late & they had left without us. We had no idea where to get the bus from but luckily the...