20 July 2009 Good day to you all. Since last writing I have been up to lots of fun and games. Firstly we took another overnight train. This time we were travelling in luxury, soft sleeper beds!!! All this meant really was rather than 6 to a cabin, there was 4! Oh and we had a door! Wow. We were spoilt! This train was by far the worst train I have ever been on in my life! There was no air con and just some poxy fan in the cabin. People were being dragged out the...

17th July Hello everyone! Sorry I have been quite slow with the blogs this week. Have been up to a lot of exciting things and finding it hard to make it down to an internet cafe. I am truely having the best time of my life. I have made some great friends and seen some absolulty amazing things. After leaving Xi'an we caught a 17 hour train to Chengdu. The train journey itself was rather exciting and quite an adventure! Was such a nightmare trying to sleep thoug...

Day 7 & 8 (ignor the map below as the location is not correct. Some reason it is going to a different Xi'an) Day 7 - We arrived 8.30am to Xi'an and were all shattered. The train journey had been really really fun. There were 6 to each cabin and the beds were actually quite comfortable. Unfortunatly the guy sleeping below me snored like a monster and kept me up for ages. But partly because the rest of us couldn't stop laughing at him. The toilets were to be e...

Day 5 & 6 Day 5 - I did one of the best things I have ever done in my whole entire life. Let me begin from the start. Firstly last night at 11.30am my room mate finally arrived. Her name is Helen, she's 30 and from Ireland. She is an absolute blast! We hit it off straight away and she is just like me! (I'm sure we'll be having plenty of poo stories together) So we were both really excited to meet each other so sat up chatting for ages. We finally got to slee...

Day 3 & 4 Good day to you all! Well I have had a crazy past 2 days. Yesterday I FINALLY made it to the Temple of Heaven. I cheated and caught a taxi. Thank God I did, it really was quite far away. It was all to be expected and more. I loved it. The buildings are just so beautiful and interesting and was a really nice place to walk around. In the park there was also a Fasting Temple. After paying my one pound entrance fee I wondered round and apart from an A...