Can't believe Gem didn't mention the pandas!!!!!!Once upon a time... in a land far, far away... an owl hooted, a monitor lizard wailed and a monkey screamed... and two theoretically grown up women ran around like 4 year olds around the pandas. (that probably only makes sense to a couple of people so sorry everyone else!)The Panda Breeding centre just outside Chengdu is one of about 75 centres in China aimed at breeding giant pandas of which there are only about 1...

greetings guys! well were in a place called dali now which i think its safe to say weve both fallen in love with, very relaxed with only the odd person atttempting to drag you into there shop rather than the whole street!! think our bags may be a bit heavier when we leave though, oops far too much to buy!! so the saga behind getting here ....... ANOTHER train, only this time we got cocky and decided on hard sleeper tickets thinking how much difference ...

Hello everybody! We've survived a very long 31 hour train journey with no food apart from "Hello Kitty" biscuits and very unattractive looking and tasting Chinese Pot Noodles that may have been grown in a petri dish and are now in Chengdu in the Sizchuan area of Western China. The train journey was that long that Gem was convinced she saw two elephants out of the window! If anyone could please confirm that elephants even exist in North West China, I would be...

My turn to write!!! Sitting in a hostel in Beijing drinking beer at 0.13p per 660ml bottle... But don't fret Mum, we're not drinking that much of it as we seem to be tired all the time. Probably something to do with the silly amount of walking we're doing round the whole of Beijing. Although we have now mastered the underground and even ventured onto a bus today. Possibly not the most efficient mode of transport as it took us 2 hours to get back from the Su...

hi guys! in beijing now at last! ended up having to use travel agent but think thats the chinese way? anyway after a flight that involved eating cat food or at least it looked like it, doing on board aerobics with direction from the air hostesses and listening to the company song over and over and over again we reached beijing!! great flight actually very entertaining! anyway in beijing we got cocky and got local bus and subway to where we thought we ...