Ready for the next update, this one isn't as long as the last , but hopefully just as interesting. We left Beijing two nights ago after a full on two days of tourist love. After a much needed lye inn on our first day, we layered ourselves up, put on our new coats and headed towards the forbidden city, on the way being harrassed by con-men, beggers and 'art students' wanting to sell you fake paintings, we arrived at the entrance to the city only to discover w...

Ni Hao(Hello), After a busy couple of days in Hong Kong we have just made it to Beijing on a 23 hour train journey through mainland China. But before we go in to much detail about that I think we should bore you about everything that has happened in between, so brace yourselves to read our essay ‘After Magnectic Island’. Well after Magnetic Island in Australia we headed for our last greyhound coach journey to Cairns, the Greyhound has taken us over 2500k...