Terracotta Warrior trip was fascinating - amazing how all these figures were buried underground and not found until 1974! The archaelogists have done a great restoration job. After a 15 hour overnight train, we arrived in Suzhou and explored the pretty canals and gardens there. We have now arrived in Shanghai, which is a huge city with an impressive skyline. We have seen the Shanghai acrobats, been to the markets and eaten more yummy food (although not sure we ...

We survived our trip to the night market!! We had scorpion, starfish, snake and deep fried ice cream as well as other things. Since our last blog update, we have visited Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing and taken the overnight sleeper train to Xian where we are today. Yesterday, we took a bike tour around the ancient city walls (14 kms) - a great way to burn off our Peking duck lunch! Later we are off to see the Terracotta Army before our next...

Arrived safely in China two days ago after the red-eye to Sydney from Darwin, a few hours at Sydney airport and then a 13 hour flight to China! After a good night's sleep, we checked out the Temple of Heaven and then met our lovely tour group in the evening. Been to the Great Wall today which was fantastic, it was hard to believe we were really there! Beijing is a massive city and pretty crazy. Tonight we are planning to go to the food markets to try some bizar...

We have been exploring the Top End of the Northern Territory over the last few days, using Darwin as our base. We have visited Litchfield National Park and Kakadu National Park where we have been bushwalking and swimming. Gunlom near the southern end of Kakadu was our favourite place. The waterfall there creates several swimming holes on different levels as it cascades down, a truly peaceful and beautiful place to swim. Kakadu is a World Heritage site due to it...

Well... it's been a while... what have we done since our last entry... Feeding the dolphins in Monkey Mia was great fun. We have also been dodging emus/cows/kangaroos and floods driving up the west coast! Actually, the flooding held us up a bit but we were soon back on track - and crossing the Tropic of Capricorn! We have been doing a lot of swimming and snorkelling (Craig saw a reef shark and turtle on the Ningaloo Reef!) at Coral Bay and Cape Range National P...