Ni hao! I am writing this time from an amazing little hostel in Beijing! We checked in after the tour finished yesterday and were dropped off by the taxi driver on a normal looking road. I then spotted a sign for the hostel so we started walking down this small alleyway, stepping over bricks and scaffoliding poles etc etc and the alleyway slowly got narrower and I slowly got more worried that I was going to be sleeping in a backstreet beijing gutter but then we s...

Ni hao! I am writing this time from an amazing little hostel in Beijing! We checked in after the tour finished yesterday and were dropped off by the taxi driver on a normal looking road. I then spotted a sign for the hostel so we started walking down this small alleyway, stepping over bricks and scaffoliding poles etc etc and the alleyway slowly got narrower and I slowly got more worried that I was going to be sleeping in a backstreet beijing gutter but then we s...

Ok so blogging again a lot earlier than i thought and it is mainly bcause w have free internet in this guesthouse! More about this place later on. But first: On our last day in Shanghai we got on a minibvus to go about 2 hours outside of Xi'an to see th teracotta warriors. Although I had heard of them before I didnt know the full history but a quick glance at lonly planet actually got me surprisingly interested. The exhibition area itself is really well done; ...

You must of thought I had died or something similar but no my faithful readers, i have merely been busy. That, coupled witht the fact that there are actually very very very few internet cafes in China! So im going back to May 9th- a full week ago and my flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. The flight itself was fine, Airbus somethign or other with about 4 of us on it- managed to sit by emergency exit for the extra legroom. As we were approching Bangkok there was a...