Yangshauo is about 20km from the city of Guilin and is set in beautiful mountain scenery thousand of cone and triangle shape mountains with like a slight mist on top of each surround the town and rivers run through the city making it a great place for boat trips, it's like being on holiday very relaxing plenty of great trips and amazing places to eat it is a bit more aimed at westerners as more people speak English than in any other place but this does not spoil...

Hi all glad to hear there is finaly some good weather back at home bout time, hope you all well. We got picked up for our Yangtze River Cruise about sevenish in the morning and taken to our coach which we travelled on to Chongquing for about four hours was not a bad trip as the coach was quite empty although we were then only people that were not chinese so everyone was staring at us. When we arrived we were told that the boat went from Wangzou which was anothe...

Hello from Chengdu! The night before we caught our overnight train to Chengdu we managed to get the Barcelona v Man U game on on a big screen in the bar of the hostel, it did not start until 3am so we were up till about five ish, in the morning we pretty much had to pack check out and then get to the train station to get our train. Xian train station was very diffent to Beijing everyone was staring at us but luckily we did not have much time to spare. We got o...

So...... the night before we went to see the Terracotta Warriors we went out for something to eat just around town again no idea what we were ordering and the staff were all coming to have a look at us beacuse we must have seemed strange to them, people were even taking photos of us when we were sitting down a bit later on. We went back to the hostel to have a few beers the hostel has a huge bar when you walk in there are about 25 huge comfy sofas and tables tha...

Hi there everyone hope you are all well and doing fine. Our last night in Beijing we went to an outdoor "night market" it's a huge street set up with about a hundred stalls all selling differnt food such as snake, crab, scorpions, silk worms etc we were noy daring enough to try some but we had spicy crab which is a whole crab on a stick, pigs intestines (which was actually lovely)deep fried cream cakes (Joes choice obviously) duck pancakes (not very or...