Dear All, Thank You for all the comments and messages so far! By popular demand Kirsty is going to write the remainder of the blog, with a little input from me, as we have a lot to catch up on! Today we have arrived in Chengdu after a long over night train journey from Xi'an. Tomorrow we are going to see some giant pandas - well excited!! Yangshuo: After a few chilled days due to Jonny being ill, we had a couple of days exploring the region. We hired some bike...

Hi all, Now we are in Yangshuo, a small town along the Li River, with the amazing scenery (like the pic above). It is very hot at the moment and jonny has been feeling a bit under the weather but has made a swift recovery in the last 2 days. Hong Kong: We both loved HK! It definitely felt a lot like England only with scorching weather! We went up Victoria Peak on a tram and took a further 1 hour walk up to the top. We could see the harbour and surrounding islan...

Hi everyone, We are now in Hong Kong and it all seems very exciting so far. Its a busy city regarding the amount of people. Everything is buzzing and nothing never seems to stop. Just went around a market which jonny loved as he likes to haggle and reminds him of the northern car boot sales!! Beijing: It was always very hot and humid yet you could not see the sun for the sky was hazy with smog. We enjoyed Beijing a lot. We loved our trek of the Great Wall - it ...

Ni hao!, Dear All, we are surviving in Beijing! This is our last night here after 4days and tomorrow we move to Shanghai on an overnight train with all the locals (and chickens!?) Weather has been good - very hot and VERY humid athough today it rained - typical as we spent all day on the great wall (and forgot our coats)! So far we have visited several temples, The Forbidden City, Tiannamen Square, The Great Wall and the Olympic site. Tonight we saw a Kung Fu S...