After a sad departure from Chengdu leaving everyone behind :( I took my first train in china!! Given our Thailand experiences with the train I was nervous as to how hot it would be seeing at it was a casual 37 degrees on Chengdu when in left. Fortuntalely it was ac and so I arrived in Xian in dry clothes... Success. I also made friends with a lovely Chinese lady who ensured I got off the train!! The first people I met here were lauren and eadoin and so we all d...

So five days later I'm now back in Chengdu for a night and a day before heading off to xi'an tomorrow night. Despite warnings that I would find china very un backpackerish I have met sooo many lovely people! After a short day trip to see the leshan big buddah, which in all honesty is simply a very big buddah, an probably not worth the 90 RMB, where I rapidly melted in the heat And so made my way speedily to mount emei Shan. I have to admit that travelling in chi...

So it's been a weird couple of days! I'm still getting used to the whole travelling on your own idea! Fortunately there was a lovely couple, amy and matt, who adopted me for my first day! We went to see the pandas which are so cute you can't really put it into words. The red pandas there are beautiful an one climbed a tree, posed and then got down resulting in some good photies. In the panda cub enclosure we saw three baby pandas have a massive fight which was so...