Hey All, On Sunday we walked to the 'Big WIld Goose Pagoda'. It ended up being quite a hot sunny day. We watched an amazing dancing fountain show, where the fountains movements where choreographed to music. We entered the grounds of the pagoda and were met by some truely amazing sights - beautiful buddhist buildings, quiet scenic spots, walks through pretty gardens, pretty little pagoda's in the gardens and interesting stone carvings. In the evening, we went fo...

Hi All We are now in Xi'an, about 1200km west of Shanghai, we spent the last day in Shanghai, loitering about in cafes and parks passing the time as we were catching an overnight trainn that didnt leave until 8pm. :-) The train took 14 hours and we had a cabin with 4 bunk beds. There was us two and a chinese man and woman. The man slept like darth vader all night and so we didnt have the best nights sleep, but it was ok. We got picked up from the train station b...

Arrived in Xi'an okay, will blog later :) Love, The explorers xXx

Halloha, We flew to Shanghai on Sunday morning... the plane food was interesting (so far plane food has been quite tasty) ... There was some sort of (very) overboiled rice in starchy slop, accompanied by pickled cucumber with a large black vegetable or fruit?! And an undercooked break roll with a slice of animal fat on it. Needless to say, we poked that food and gave it a miss - our little Western tummys couldn't cope with it at 6am!! We had huge issues finding...

Hi Folks, It's our last day in Beijing and we'll both be sad to leave! We've been uber busy since the last entry - literally non stop... On Wednesday we had a walk through Tianamen Square to get to the Forbidden City - which was really hot and busy! We picked up an English speaking Chinese man (tour guide of some shifty variety) called "Bob", which turned out to be a wise move as we wouldn't have had a clue without hiim! Forbidden City was huge and ve...