After our 4th and final overnight train in China we arrived at the boarder for Hong Kong and after completing many different forms and standing in different cues we made it through. It was then to the staiton for a train in to Kowloon (1st class again) who said you have to slum it when you backpack he he! Arrived at the hotel and got to the room hoping for a nice comfy bed to chill out on but o no it was like they had forgotten the matress, not good!!! After went...

Hello again The Yangtze 3 gorges trip was good, we got put in to 1st class, whoohoo get us! unfortunatly it rained vertually the whole time on board the boat and it was a little chilly. On the second day we left our big boat and boarded a smaller one to go through a medium set of gorges and then a small wooden boat to go through the mini three gorges, still raining though!! after this it is was to the boat for a meal. I can now manage to use the chopstick withou...

Managed to get on to a PC again so thought I better give you all another update since it's been a while and we've done loads. Once we had settled in to life in Xi'an we travelled to see se terrocotta army which is unreal to think someone made it, just to surround him when he died, and it's even more amazing that it was only found in the 70's. After went for lunch with some of the guys and lets just say it was an expeirence it was a big pot of something that we ...

Hi Everyone At last i've managed to start writing my blog, sorry about the delay. We arrived in Beijing with no problems, the flight was on time and the taxi at the airport was easy, although we have found out quite quickly that not many people speak english, so if restuarants have pictures, they are the winners! In the first few days we ventured off to Beihai Park , Beijing zoo (saw our first panda's bless em!) the Temple of Heaven, the Lama temple and saw t...