One Word. Pandas!!! Two Words: Hot Hot! Three Words: Dujiangyan - who could have thought an ancient irrigation system can be so fascinating? unfortunately I was really really tired and arrived quite late so wasn't able to enjoy all of its charms. A tranquile garden, Herculean scale buildings dating back millennia, crazy tuk tuk driver and a brand new South Bridge illuminates the city. Impressed? I certainly was.

YangShou enshrouded in a misty cloud is a sight that propells you from dusty Earth to the Heavens. Guilin was equally impressive, touristy as it may be, it is definitely worth a few days to catch the meaning of those poems of Old describing its charms and grandeur.

The bus ride to China was the most interesting I have been on. No there were no breakdowns, no woman next to me vomiting strong stirfry cabbages, no dodgy men trying to peer down my top, no singing or dancing on the isles, no midway bus cleaning on to go on an even dirtier road, not even the time I had to help pushing Mamasita our beloved overland truck from South America out of mud, oh no this was much more profound than that. In the beginning it was a subtle re...