Hey special people! So to fill you in on recent goings on ... after leaving Yangshuo we made our way to Chaolong (a small village just outside of the town). Stayed in a cute little guesthouse ... encountered a few big buggies, not very nice at all but guess I gotta get used to them as they'll be popping up left right and centre from now on ewww. So the girls and I skipped the groups organised activity in Chaolong (cycling for the day he he not a chance!) - ins...

Okay so now I'm in the little town of Yangshuo. I know I've said that I've loved every place we've been to so far but this place is really kinda special. It's so so pretty - really reminds me of being abroad in some really remote place in spain or somewhere. Lots of market stalls, shops selling jewellery, bags and tut he he - every girls dream!! Had the bestest day today - we went mud bathing hmmm bet you're all thinking right what on earth is that .. basicall...

Okay so Shanghai is absolutely amazing .. love it love it!! Such a cool and trendy place, shame we're only here for a couple of days really. So our first day here was pretty lazy - visited an aquarium, saw lots of pretty fishes. In the evening we had dinner (obviously!) then went for a gorgeous walk around the bund, which is like a harbour type thing with a beautiful view of the Shanghai skyline - lots of bright lights - quite a sight! Second day in Shanghai w...

Right so I'm still in X'ian - it's absolutely pouring down with rain here .. so yuk! Yesterday caught a local bus with our tour guide to see the Terracotta Warriors .. very very cool. All these warriors are lined up in rows (so so many of them!) - apparantly it takes around 3 months for a team of archealogists to put just 1 warrior back together again. Basically all these pieces of broken clay were only discovered around 30 years ago, so teams of skilled peopl...

Hey guys and girls, Okay so we arrived in X'ian a couple of hours ago after a 12 hour overnight train journey from Beijing, nice! Shared a teeny weeny cabin with 5 other peeps, a bit squishy at times but still managed to sleep so can't really complain too much. So the last few days have been pretty special - the highlight being a 4 hour trek along the Great Wall of China ... absolutely incredible. The wall itself was spectaular and whichever way you looked the ...