Last day in Mongolia today, have been here for 4 days now. Arrived on Sunday 29th May after a few days in Hohot (Inner Mongolia which is actually part of China) We arrived in Hohot at 7.30am after an overnighter on the train, but unfortunately the train attendants told us to get off at the wrong stop - language barrier!! Fortunately we were in Hohot just the wrong station. After an hour of waiting our new Honcho Jasmine came to pick us up and off we went to the ...

Beijing. The rough diamond. When you dig a little deeper its a gem and a very enjoyable place to stay!! Today is our last day in Beijing, we have been here since Sunday last week. We have been staying at a pretty cool backpackers/hotel in the middle of the city - Jade Hotel. Rooms are pretty good, there's a bar here which sells beers for NZD$1 for a 600ml and its close to everything. On Monday when we arrived we went out on foot exploring, it was a little disori...

Sitting at KLIA waiting for our flight to depart to Beijing. Its 7.36pm and the board is telling us that its 'delayed', so unsure what time we will actually be leaving and what time we will be arriving in China. The guy at our hostel told us this morning that apparently a Christian prophet said the world was going to end tonight at 6pm in every country with earthquakes, but we seem to be doing ok so far and I haven't heard anything about NZ yet - so assume you gu...

Third day in KL! Arrived on Monday morning after a 21 hour journey, including a painful 7 hour stop over in Melbourne airport in the middle of the night. Emirates isn't a bad airline though, and we got lots of sleep and arrived refreshed in the morning! Joyce and Chris met us at the airport, an hour bus trip into KL, then the monorail to our backpackers which is in the middle of Bukit Bintang, the shopping, drinking, partying area of KL. Our accommodation is ...