We arrived in Lijiang quite late so found a hostel and went straight to bed. The next morning we woke up to light rain which we didn't really mind but it was freezing, it felt as though the rain could be hail and that it was about to snow, so we decided we needed to go on a shopping spree while looking around the old town. I'v got to say that we thought Dali was beautiful but Lijiang was even better, the same roofs and narrow streets, but it was a lot bigger, le...

We arrived in Dali after another successful nights sleep on the train, we got into a taxi and asked to be taken to the old town. Once there we were bombarded by people wanting us to take their trips or go to their hostel. One of the hostel's was recommended on the guide book so we followed the lady and got ourselves settled into the room. We decided that we didn't want to do a tour with anyone as we were a bit tired so decided to walk up to the Three Pagodas a...

We arrived in Kunming after 46 hours on the train, our longest journey yet and hopefully we will never have to do that again. Although the beds were reasonably comfy, sitting/lying in one place for 2 days is a nightmare. We were both really bored by the last 6 hours and just wanted to get their. The upside to the journey was the great scenery. It is very similar to Vietnam but on a vaster scale.Once we had eaten we got a taxi to a hostel, expecting to be in dorms...

After a night train that was a lot better than we are used to with actually enough leg room, tooth brushes and slippers provided we arrived in beijing feeling quite refreshed. A lady was waiting at the exit to get us to go to her hotel, it was cheaper than we were expecting to pay so we got in a mini bus and headed there, easy.Our first stop was Tiananmen Square, the largest public square in the world at 440,000 sq metres. We sussed out the subway again and got t...

We got an early turbo jet ferry from Hong Kong and arrived in Shenzhen an hour later, we looked at the exchange rate, got some cash and then booked our flights to Shanghai for the same day. We had a slight problem with the exchange rate and at first thought that everything was extremely cheap, unfortunately for us the lady who told us the rate worked on 100 quid were we were working on the value to 1 pound. Anyway we eventually got it sorted out but had spent sli...