So I decided to get of the beaten track and head towards Tibet so I get up early and jump the bus kangding first stop on the Tibetan highway half way in to the journey the bus is stopped and heavily armed and decidedly unfriendly army enter the bus and order me of as I'm the only foreigner and ask to see my papers , normally I would be happy to have a British passport but thanks to david Cameron and his tea with the dalia lama we have been blacklisted.after some ...

Arrived at chengdu and was suprised to see a very affluent and well developed city hoped for a more out of the way rural china .but I came here for one reason pandas so after two days lazing around the guesthouse learning mahjong from a local Chinese girl making my cough worse with the cheap Chinese cigarettes and playing poker into the night with a big Texan guy a Dutch guy a polish girl and a guy from chile , I finally pay the £130 pound get up at 7 and head f...

Ok so after four days of chilling out in yanshuo enjoying the scenery and meeting some interesting people ( including a girl from boston and her five guy mates who took on a 40 strong mob of chinese and got there arses well and truly kicked,forgot to ask if they used kungfu and a independent french journalist with many believable conspiracy theories about Facebook the Dali lama the CIA and the middle east )I'm still not fully recovered .so I debate wether I shoul...

this morning I awoke up with no real plan on how to get to an airport in a town three hours away .but I turn up at the bus station and with little if any conversation get pushed on to a bus by a shouting aggressive Chinese lady ,so I do as she says we agree a price and I get on. About 2 hours later the bus stops on a main road in the middle of a city of 10 million and everyone gets off , so i do as well,faced with the fact that I don't no we're I am I have no map...

Ok so if your squeamish stop reading now and I mean that .i had a conversation with a girl who lives in china who related this story .apparently another fellow English teacher who became I'll after a rather late drinking session visited the toilet .and to his horror found as he put it a half foot long snake with a thousand eyes exiting from his bottom .this is obviously a slight exaggeration however after more enquiries it is quite widespread to get infected with...