One on the bus she told us that we had to pay for the bus that is inside the park an extra charge and then also pay another £6.50 for a show by a long haired tribe. We didn't want to but you don't really get given a choice so we paid that too. The woman told us that in this long haired tribe all the girls have hair that is around 2 meters long. Also when they go to the toilet they go outside and use newspaper to cover their faces so people can't tell who they ar...

It didn't take long to get there and the river cruise boats were tiny little things that didn't look safe but we got life jackets and put all of our valuables in a waterproof bag. The cruise was very nice and the scenery was very pretty with lots of individual hills climbing really high amongst one another. It was hard to get a photo though because it was so hazy. We then got dropped off in yangshuo which was a little town with narrow streets, lots of shops and r...

That photo isnt of Chongqing but I have to pick one to upload the blog. We arrived in Chongqing easily and got a taxi to the hostel but it didn't drop us off at the hostel it dropped us off at a random street so we still had to walk for half an hour before we found it. We ate at the hostel because there wasn't much around I got sweet and sour pork which tasted nothing like the home version but still really good Dan ordered beer duck but it was really spicy and mo...

The hostel was nice and it was brand new although you felt like you were sat in IKEA as everything was bought from there. There wasn't much to do in Chengdu but we went for a walk and crossed a bridge that had hundreds and hundreds of bats flying above for some reason. The next day we went to see the pandas at the research centre, they were separated by age but all of them looked really cute, we were lucky that we saw large older ones and babies that were about...

The night train from Pingyao to Xian was one of the worst trains we have ever gotten around the world. The seat was hard, the air con was on full blast, the lights were on all night and the train was overcrowded and everyone was staring at us. For 9 hours! I think my bum still had bruises from that seat! We were going to go straight to see the terracotta warriors when we landed in Xian but after the state of the journey we decided to have a bit of a sleep at t...