Alarm at 6.30 am shower and finished packing bags. Today we fly home part 1 of our adventure is over. We have been away for 3 months and have had such an amazing time. Visited Australia Vietnam and China. Sailed around 10,000 from Australia including going over the equator. What an experience ! Got a taxi to the airport at 8 am Flight leaves 12.10 lands Heathrow 15.30 !!! But with time zones it won't be 3 hours it's an 11 hour flight Landed 15.30 uk time Conn...

Alarm went off 6.30 breakfast at 7am then on a coach trip for 7.45. We had the same guide yo yo who was really good learnt lots about China. There was me Carl Steve and an American chap called Craig (an airline pilot ) nice being in a small group. One fact we learnt is; Women must be over 20 and men over 22 before they are allowed to marry. Went to a jade factory interesting seeing how out of the stone they make ornaments and jewellery, showed us a fake bangl...

Late breakfast then got a taxi to the zoo. Cost around £3 took 20 mins or so. Spent the day there saw pandas, bears, polar bears, kangaroos, Tigers and lots more. Also went to an aquarium which was enormous, they had a show with seals and Dolphins. Tried to get taxi back to the hotel but they didn't want to go that far or wanted to charge us more. Have noticed the taxis can sometimes try and rip you off! Not very helpful. So we got the subway which was surpri...

Up early (alarm set for 6,30) had breakfast then went on coach trip sight seeing First stop was summer palace. Had a really good tour guide called yoyo who explained so much about the history of China. The emperors built the summer palace as a place to go in the summer time as Beijing can reach temperature of 40 degrees and the summer palace was built on the outskirts with shades of trees and a lake so cooler there. She explained about one of the wives of the e...

Up at 8 then went for breakfast. Booked a couple of trips for Thursday and Tuesday. Left the hotel and walked to tiananmum square. Had to go through security but was not allowed into the main square. There are a lot of police and security guards around everywhere. They often march in a line together. Then we wandered around shong-Shan park. Ended up walking just over 5 miles. Got a taxi back to our hotel and went to Pizza Hut for lunch. Chilled out in the aftern...