After visting Kunming and spending a little while longer than previously anticipated in the Provincial captial, due to certain people f***ing around at the bus station(long story, but ended up working in our favour.goes to show how far a little perserverence can go with good intentions) After travelling the entirety of china we decided to visit the south which was excellent. this was a superb way to round up an eventuful jaunt in china. we caught a bus to the to...

On a buzz from that Naughty temple. we rode back along the highway (check me pix) back to the old city of Pingyao. Pingyao, was a nice little quaint city of only 40,000people which was great, but the inner walled city was crenelated with chinese tour groups, each with thier own flag and megaphone and a leader..noisy! the next day, we went one better and discovered a 3man'tandem' if you can call it that. what jokes! the main objective of the day, was to find a sni...

Today, April 2nd, we had a look around the inner city after grabbing some recommended local dishes, which i would not reconmmend. Comeing back on ourselves,at the far end of our street, we passed the street pool we came across a bike hire stand. Straight on the tandem we headed back to the hostel to decide what our plans were to be for the rest of the day. The cycle ride was about 7km out of Pingyao to the Shaoglin Temple.My past experience of temples had been g...

finally got a chance to update me blog. am currently in Xi'an the ancient capital of China, and home of the Terra-Cotta Warriors. im sitting here at the computer, with our new accomplice the Austrian Astronomer to my right, and shayd in between regularly endulging into the large bag of salty peanuts, of which i am totally addicted!! My last entry was after my return from Trekking in Pokhara. We were ever so lucky that we were in Kathmandu for Holi Festival, a M...