The sun is finally shining!!! We are back in thongs and shorts and i even got a little sun burn the other day. From Guilin we took a boat cruise down the Lijian River to the quite farming town of Yangshou. Being backpackers we decided to take the 'Chinese' boat that was almost half the price of the 'Western' boat. Lucky we did as we found out later that everything is the same except for the on-board commentary which wasn't that good anyway. So for 4 hours we cr...

The weather hasn't cleared up from the last blog entry so we didn't do a great deal of sight seeing done in Hong Kong. Considering we couldn't even see Hong Kong peak, or even the tops of some of the city skyscrappers for that matter, there wasn't much point in climbing the peak for that long awaited bird's eye view of the city so a post card will have to do. From Hong Kong we took a boat ride to Macau for a night. Macau is part of China but it is a Special...

Hi everyone, We arrived in Hong Kong 2 nights ago. Hong Kong is a fabulous city. It's a mix between a modern western city like New York with tall buildings and neon lights versus your typical Asian city like Bangkok with cheap food stalls lining the streets and fake rolex watches on every corner. The shopping here is great. Fake everything at prices better than in Thailand. The food is full of flavour and costs next to nothing. The one thing that is expens...