Not as cold as yesterday but still brisk enough we layer up in defence of the -1 winds. Having discussed the Great Wall again we decide to go on another trip to a different section today. The trip is via our hostel and well run, no hidden shopping trips just the wall! We drive for two hours to mutianyu and get a cable car to the top (100 yuan return), the views are fabulous. We immediately agree this is exactly what we pictured in terms of a true Great Wall expe...

Both of us are absolutely hanging and dosed to the eyeballs, Jacq more so and cannot physically move. Matt heads for pizza and cokes around 11am to see if they will cure us, he meets the Spanish bunch who find last night's antics hilarious and fill in some gaps. Ask us later. We spend most of the day in bed kicking ourselves for wasting the day - although a fab night it doesn't work when travelling. Around 5pm we surface Matt has booked a trip to see a Kungfu t...

It's freezing, like -7 freezing. We get up around 630am ready for a pre- booked trip via Viator travel for the Great Wall of China including the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. The trip starts with a walk to the square which has heavy security procedures and upon arrival it appears we cannot walk on the square and so have pictures taken from across the street and we then walk to the Forbidden City. The people here stare at us a lot, practically going out o...

After an amazing flight on a huge jet, slippers, personal TV stations and lip balm included, we decided the easiest and safest route to our Beijing hostel would be via cab. Upon queuing at the designated taxi zone, we offered our Chinese printed address to the steward, who subsequently flagged a cab and asked us to show it to the driver. We got in the cab, the driver glanced at it and motioned to us to get out - obviously unaware of the location or his manners. ...