Leaving Vietnam and entering into Laos, first stop was Savannahket. A reasonably small town with a closely net population but full of young kids. Mainly young noisy children but also many adolescence and on one particular night we stepped outside the bar we were drinking in, halted our game of snooker and investigated the fuss that was racekting outside and there about 200yards down the road was a group of thugs causing ruckus. Apparently this is a regular occure...

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...

GOOOD MMawning Vietnam! -32000dong=1GBP Arriving across the border, into Lao Cai we saught the first bus out of there in the direction of Sapa, 40km south. Set in the great valleys of northern Vietnam, i think it shared many similarities with kathmandu profoundly the tourist activity. Sapa is a very quaint little hill town and the people are charming and even though there is an abundance of touts their all very pleasant and ofcourse english speaking. There are o...

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...